Chrome Humps a Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey has been a favorite Firefox plugin for many power users for years. It is Firefox's go-to scripting tool with 40,000 user scripts found at Userscript.org and to this day the community holds a serious growth curve. Sure, Firefox commands 46.4 percent of the overall browser market but, what about the new upstarts like Google Chrome and Safari (not so much a new upstart as a triple breasted hoar of yester-year). You can breath easier tonight because the wait is surely over for all you Chrome and Chromium Mac / Linux users. Chromium, for those who don't know, is a nightly build that gets an update every night...duh, it's in the name, come on (often quite buggy)!
Unlike Firefox, there is no add-on to manage the userscripts. You simply find the specific script you want, say for instance helvetimail (yes I am a type nerd, no need to poke fun), click install, click accept on the popup at the bottom of Chrome and BOOM, fin. To remove or modify a script all you need to do is point your browser to chrome://extensions/ and you can see everything that is currently installed. Why is this important you might ask? It brings Chrome right inline with Firefox functionality and allows the super speedy Chrome to be a serious contender on the geek desktop. In addition, if you have yet to give Chrome a whirl, you are definitely missing a bullet train of a browser. IE lovers need not apply.
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