tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3092111002120923466.post-54554360166653035642008-01-17T18:31:00.000-08:002008-01-25T14:41:09.104-08:00Over the last several years, just out of curiosity, I would regularly try out several of the major browsers on the market. For several years, I have always returned to Maxthon, an IE-based browser shell that was developed in China. Although Firefox is quite nice compared to IE 6, the user interface wasn't really that revolutionary when compared to other modern browsers like Opera or IE shells like Maxthon.<br /><br />Since last December, I have switched to Firefox for one simple reason: Facebook advertisements. One of the advertising method of Facebook is putting embedded Ads within the Newsfeed. It's a very excellent place for ads as users would tend to read the Newsfeed line by line and would unavoidably read the ads as well. I have searched long and hard for a way to tame those ads and that's when I found Greasemonkey. Greasemonkey is a plugin for Firefox that is capable of injecting javascript, thus altering a web page. That means you could use it to remove annoying elements of a web page. I promptly installed a Facebook ad removal script and I was happy. Greasemonkey alone is enough for me to pick Firefox from other browsers.<br /><br />By no mean an I implying that Greasemonkey is a killer app for the Firefox platform; it is simply too complicated for the average people to use safely and effectively. The most user friendly way of removing ads from specific site would still be through Firefox plugin.<br /><br />Note: I have actually began to see those newsfeed ads again, perhaps the script needs an update.About Stevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13779571628533123350noreply@blogger.com