One of the reasons I even considered leaving Opera and using Firefox was Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (”user scripts”) to any web page to change its behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a web page’s style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a web page’s design or interaction.
What I did not know was that one can run most Greasemonkey scripts in Opera 8. Here is how:
1. Create a folder to house your Opera user scripts. It may be best to do this in your Opera profile directory, but it can be any location. You can call it whatever you like, I called it javascripts.
2. In Opera, click on Tools -> Preferences –> Advanced –> Content –> JavaScript Options.
3. Where you see My JavaScript Files, click choose and browse to where you have just created the Opera user scripts folder.
4. Click OK until you exit preferences.
You only have to set this up once. Now you can install Greasemonkey scripts with ease like this:
5. Now go to the Greasemoneiy scripts repository here.
6. To install a script simply click on it and when it loads, select File –> Save As and save the script to the Opera user scripts directory you created in step 1 above. (Note: save the file type as “all files”).
That is it. Easy Peesy.
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