If you’re a die-hard Safari user, you may want to check out one of Firefox’s best features - Greasemonkey. Using the free software SIMBL and GreaseKit, you can run most of the scripts created for Greasemonkey - in Safari. And Mailplane. And all WebKit apps. So now you can use the genius that is Folders4Gmail while using Safari.
- First up - download SIMBL and install it (installation consists of clicking ‘next’ a bunch of times).
- Exit Safari if you’re using it.
- Next, download GreaseKit. To install it, drag the GreaseKit.bundle file to ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins
note: if you don’t have a SIMBL/Plugins/ folder, just create it, then drop GreaseKit.bundle into it.
- Now re-open Safari. You should see a GreaseKit entry in the Safari menu bar.
- Head on over to http://userscripts.org and find a Greasemonkey script to try out. Again, I’ll recommend Folders4Gmail. When you find one you want to install, click the Install this script button.
- You’ll see a bunch of javascript fill up your browser window, and a Safari dialog box will appear asking you to confirm the installation. Click Install.
- Your GreaseKit menu will now include the installed script.
- Check to make sure the script works in Safari by actually using it. In this case, I installed Folders4Gmail, and it works exactly as it should. Note: I installed 5 random Greasemonkey scripts using GreaseKit and all of them worked perfectly - if you find one that doesn’t, please feel free to leave a comment here.
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I tried installing Colorful List View for Google Reader and Google Reader title unread count, and neither worked..
I’ve also written a list of really useful Greasemonkey scripts that you can check out here:
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/25-useful-greasemonkey-scripts-you-should-take-a-look-at/
Enjoy!
I tried to insatll Facebook Auto-Colorizer and It didnt work.
To Install GreaseKit, I had drag to ~/Library/InputManagers/SIMBL.
I can’t seem to get this to work on Safari 3.0.4 while using Tiger.
Could you please offer any insight? Thanks!
clicking the “install this script” button put the script into my downloads folder, so I dragged the .js file back into safari and it asked to install.
@downloads:
Thanks for the tip! It might have something to do w/ the new version of Safari (I didn’t have to do that when I installed, but that was a few versions ago). Thanks again!
Does anyone know a decent resource for learning to write GreaseKit scripts? Or a how-to to port Greasemonkey scripts for GreaseKit?
Hi. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong, but the following script doesn’t seem to work:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/source/29469.user.js
It’s meant to fix the width of an igoogle gadget
http://spanishgringo.blogspot.com/2008/07/my-dropbox-gadget.html
I have installed Greasekit OK, in that I have the menu item in safari, and the script seems to be installed ok too (it has a tick next to it). But the gadget is still the same width
Hey man…nice explanation. I had written a post a while back on some of my favorite Greasemonkey scripts:
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/25-useful-greasemonkey-scripts-you-should-take-a-look-at/
I dropped the GreaseKit.bundle under Macintosh HD’s library:application support: SIMBL:Plugins and nothing happened to Safari’s menu. I also clicked on the GreaseKit.bundle and a window pops up, saying: There’s no default application specified to open the document”GreaseKit.bundle”. I am stuck.
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