Thank you backtaggers! [more inside]
posted by jessamyn on Nov 19, 2009 - 57 comments

As a bit of a brain saver I've made a GreaseMonkey script that hides every comment in a discussion on mefi that has less than 5 favourites. [more inside]
posted by hifimofo on Apr 23, 2009 - 206 comments

Is the Mondo Meta Options Greasemonkey script making Recent Activity a slow load for anyone else? What else can be used to killfile? [more inside]
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing on Oct 8, 2008 - 57 comments

If you are not using firefox you may skip this post, because it is about a tool that can help prevent comments like this and this [more inside]
posted by hortense on Aug 26, 2008 - 46 comments

FireFox. MetaFilter. A script on this page has stopped responding, do you want to stop the script, debug the script, or cry. Anybody else seeing this on Firefox 2.x? [more inside]
posted by cavalier on Aug 21, 2008 - 19 comments

"Protection from the Atomic Bomb" doesn't display a link anywhere in the text of the post (for me). The rest of the page is fine. What happened? [more inside]
posted by Kronos_to_Earth on May 7, 2008 - 36 comments

Where's that greasemonkey script or Firefox extension that adds expand/collapse twisties to you 'recent activity' page? [more inside]
posted by jacquilynne on Apr 8, 2008 - 13 comments

A different kind of call out: MeFi has a brand new pony. [more inside]
posted by dawson on Feb 27, 2008 - 56 comments

In response to this thread: A little GreaseMonkey script to pop-out all the flash players (that use playlists) into new tabs/windows. Enjoy!
posted by potch on Dec 3, 2007 - 11 comments

I know that this is an issue best addressed by the creator of MetaFilthy, but before I email him, I wanted to make sure that it's really a MetaFilthy bug, and not some problem on my end, and Metafilter is pretty much guaranteed to have the internet's largest population of MetaFilthy users. So: Is anyone getting a MetaFilthy bug when they open a MeFi page saying "Exception in Metafilthy.showIfValidURL NS_ERROR_DOM_INDEX_SIZE_ERR Index or size is negative or greater than the allowed amount line 1012 of undefined undefined"?
posted by Bugbread on Mar 2, 2007 - 39 comments

Contemplating the FeaturePony: The MeFi Navigator Greasemonkey script is frakkin' insanely useful, if only for the 'poster' and 'admin' tags (I don't use the comment navigation stuff that much). Wouldn't Safari and IE users praise the ground mathowie walks on if it got built into the system itself?
posted by WCityMike on Dec 5, 2006 - 28 comments

I run a Greasemonkey script that highlights "heavy links" - links such a Youtube or .mov that might take a while to download.

Should this script action be incorporated into the meta universe?

Proper etiquitte is to flag such heavy links but if you Firefox users install this script and say look at posts tagged with video, you will see many examples of posters who bother to tag their posts but don't flag their links. Then there are many who don’t tag or flag.

Even if you don't support such highlighting at the site (It will just make people lazy), how are my filters? What else do I need to include? [jeez, trying to get the below to display properly was very trying]

HeavyExtensions = ['swf', 'ram', 'rm', 'wmv', 'asx', 'mov', 'pdf', 'mp3', 'mpg', 'mpeg', 'wav'];
HeavyURLs = [
 /youtube.com\/.*\?v=/,
/video.google.com\/videoplay/,
/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf/,
 /collegehumor.com\/movies\/.*\//,
]

posted by MonkeySaltedNuts on Jul 6, 2006 - 25 comments

GreaseMonkey script: Show Comments

Users often reference other user's comments (example). If you're as lazy as I am you don't like clicking back to see what the original comment was. This script displays the original comment inline. Screenshot inside.
posted by null terminated on May 20, 2006 - 11 comments

Warning: long, detailed post ahead. You have been warned.
posted by davejay on Apr 26, 2006 - 26 comments

This script is awesome, and makes MetaFilter a better place.

Just wanted to say thank you, matthewr.
posted by drpynchon on Feb 26, 2006 - 52 comments

The current firefox search plugins for Mefi were written ages ago for the built-in site search (hence they don't work anymore). Can any of our hotshot code cowboy members look into making one that uses the yahoo search? I'm particularly looking for one to search AskMe.
posted by Firas on Feb 10, 2006 - 5 comments

Here's a little Greasemonkey script that filters out posts by any users you don't want to read on Metafilter (if you use Firefox).

If you want to use it, download Greasemonkey and restart your Firefox if you haven't already. Then click on the first link and then the Greasemonkey install button on the top right hand corner.

By default, it only filters on single Mefi article pages, not on preview or on Metatalk, but you could easily change the Included Pages. By default, it filters out ParisParamus and dios as users but you could very easily download this to your local drive and edit it -- or I'd put up any other variations that were useful (or even come up with a way for you to edit preferences from the program).

This was fun. Was it a good idea? Discuss.
posted by lupus_yonderboy on Jan 16, 2006 - 110 comments

Ok, as mentioned here, there's always interest in a killfile script. Well, I just finished the one I've been working on (with help from Plutor) and it's available here. What makes mine worth it when there's already a script out there? Well, [MI]
posted by mystyk on Sep 2, 2005 - 36 comments

I've written a Greasemonkey script that does pretty much what leftcoastbob suggested here.

It adds a few refinements: the replacement name is "Poster" for the Poster and "Comment N" for commenters, where N is the number of their first comment in the currently viewed thread, so if the same commenter posts more than once in the thread, all his comments have the same replacement name.
posted by orthogonality on Jul 5, 2005 - 87 comments

I'm considering writing a Firefox extension for Metafilter. Would anyone use it? [+]
posted by orthogonality on Mar 3, 2005 - 49 comments

automatic banning of anyone who does this.
posted by crunchland on Dec 11, 2003 - 25 comments

Before this FPP gets deleted for being the daily double, can somebody tell me what exactly is going on here?
posted by 40 Watt on Aug 22, 2003 - 11 comments

This may not be strictly a Mefi bug, but...
I wanted to use the [This Is Good] script for the first time today, on this thread, and found the following error message:

"Sorry, something's broken.

Don't know why, but this script has stopped adding new posts to the database, and I'm too busy with Christmas right now to figure it out. I'll work on it soon after the Holidays, I promise. Sorry!

So, all the other users of that script - in that thread and others - I guess it ain't doing what ya thought, sadly. Is it something on the Mefi end thats causing it to freak out?
posted by dash_slot- on Feb 11, 2003 - 4 comments

Theoretical brainstorming and talking-out-loud regarding Matt's Meta technology.

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posted by ZachsMind on Jul 15, 2000 - 2 comments