Installing Greasemonkey Scripts in Safari

Here’s a recent dis­cov­ery I’d like to share: you can actu­ally run Grease­mon­key scripts in Safari. The solu­tion is sim­ple: install GreaseKit. You can find some good instruc­tions on installing GreaseKit here.

Once installed, you can use any of my Grease­mon­key scripts in Safari on a mac just like in Fire­fox. I’ll update the pages for each of my scripts to include this infor­ma­tion as well as instruc­tions for installing the scripts in the next few days. Instal­la­tion should be easy enough though. In fact, you should just be able to click the down­load link for each file and you’ll see an installer prompt. This should also work in Fire­fox and is a much quicker way to install scripts — another recent dis­cov­ery of mine, ahem.

In which I present my first Greasemonkey script

I’m am a cur­rent user of Apple’s dot Mac ser­vice and have been for a few years. I use the web­mail appli­ca­tion pretty reg­u­larly, but the one thing that has always both­ered me about the inter­face is the huge global nav­i­ga­tion ban­ner that takes up a good inch of the top part of the page. The thing is, when I’m in there I don’t really care about nav­i­gat­ing to, say, the iTunes page.

Using Mark Pilgim’s handy Grease­mon­key ref­er­ence I whipped up a Grease­mon­key script for Fire­fox that hides the global nav, but only for the *.mac.com domain.

So, with­out fur­ther ado, I present Dot Mac.