Author: Paweł Gościcki

Ruby/Rails programmer.

Greasemonkey Firefox extension

I’ve been a little hesitant about installing greasemonkey as I already have too many installed extensions (seven at that time). Even though celebrities (also called A-list bloggers) like Robert Scoble were praising it. What convinced me was this little script that always switches gmail into https mode. So simple, yet so useful. I just could not resist.

 // ==UserScript==
 // @name          GMailSecure
 // @namespace     http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/download/
 // @description   force GMail to use secure connection
 // @include       http://gmail.google.com/*
 // ==/UserScript==
 window.location.href=window.location.href.replace(/^http:/, 'https:');

And then came the madness of installing more and more user scripts. I was hooked.

EDIT: All your (x)HTML are belong to us.

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