A few collected pointers to things you may find enhance your lj, fandom, and general computer-related experience. Some of these are applicable only to users of particular programs or operating systems.
Firefox
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its behavior. Most
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I find it more useful than the greasemonkey equivs.
(then again, I don't like greasemonkey, so perhaps I'm biased.)
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I don't need the scripting capability, and I honestly don't trust 3rd party greasemonkey scripts. (I barely trust 3rd party firefox extensions :-) ).
Witness the major greasemonkey security hole last year...the one where any malicious website could read any file on your hard drive.
Admittedly you run this risk for every piece of software that you install, but things that you attach to your browser can be extra problematic, since most pieces of SW don't actively connect out to other machines on the 'net :-)
...but I'm fairly paranoid about computer security (worked in the field for awhile), so take me with a grain of salt :-)
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