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3 Greasemonkey Tricks
Greasemonkey, as mentioned above, is a Firefox extension that lets third-party scripts interact with the browser in many ways. User scripts can remix Web page interfaces, insert features that add to your convenience, and much more.
After you've done the basic Greasemonkey installation, click Add to Firefox. Restart the browser when prompted. Greasemonkey doesn't do much alone, but it will do quite a lot after you add scripts. Here are some cool options that enhance assorted Google services. You don't have to stop here, though: Go to Userscripts.org for all sorts of practical scripts that will turn you into a power browser user.
Google Account Multi-Login: Have more than one Gmail account? Use this script, and you can swap between multiple Gmail accounts through a drop-down menu. Instead of clicking the Sign Out link, you can jump right into your next account.
YouTube Download Greasemonkey scriptYouTube Download: The Flash videos on the Google-owned YouTube work well in a browser, but you might want to use this script to download the original files for offline playback. You will need an FLV-capable video player, such as VLC, to play them later.
Greased Lightbox: On Google Image Search and other picture sites, you have to make a few clicks to reach a big view of a thumbnail image. With the Greased Lightbox script, however, you need click just once on the preview for a full-window image. Click again to go back to the thumbnails, or click View image in its original context to jump to that site.
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