Despite a lot of buzz about Google Chrome, one thing which is preventing many Firefox users from making a switch is, no support for third-party addons/plugins in Google Chrome.
If all you want is one firefox plugin, GreaseMonkey, then there is a software called GreaseMetal out there, which can for time being make most userscripts developed for GreaseMonkey work in Google Chrome.
GreaseMonkey is small exe file. Just download it and install it. If your are installing it from Google Chrome itself, then it will ask you to restart your browser.
Once installed, it will create a directory named userjs in your My Document folder, as highlighted below.
All you need to do now, copy all userscripts you want to use in Google Chrome to userjs folder.
Please note that some GreaseMonkey scripts may not work in Google Chrome even after using above hack. Notably scripts which are using GreaseMonkey API functions.
It would have been better if Kazuho, GreaseMetal’s developer, provided option to use Firefox’s userscripts folder.
Google already hinted that future versions of Google Chrome will have support for addons, so it you are eager to make a switch, GreaseMetal is here to help!
Link: GreaseMetal (via OrkutPlus)
Related: Google Chrome – Features and alternative Firefox Plugins
9 Comments
Finally Devils are working on Chrome !! 😉
@Abhishek
Yep. Actually I am waiting for official Mac release.
I received very biased treatment from Mozilla community. 🙁
Chrome is really a good web browser…even better than firefox in many ways
Many thanx for the trick
how to save those scripts in that folder???
shud i paste the code in txt file n change ext to .js or any other method??
@apoorv –
Your way will also work. 🙂
when i click on greasemetal from start menu all it does open up chrome for 1 second then close it. any suggestions:(
Hi, Please is there anyway I could manipulate the greasemetal software to make it load chrome from a different location? It is set to load chrome from {drive letter}/Users/{Current User’s User-name}/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/Application
Google set that as the installation path for the new vista service pack two in order to enable every user to install chrome, despite the account type, unfortunately, I can’t upgrade to service pack two as it will result in a chaos for my new OS (windows vista eternity 2009 😉 please how may I edit the code of the program to load chrome from {drive letter}/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application
Please if you know how I can hack the .exe file to perform this task using Resource Hacker or any other software please tell me, thank you.
@MrElectrifyer
I dont have windows to test this but try playing with registry.
Most EXEs uses registry to store and manipulate dynamic info like paths.
i am using google chrome and i want to use greasemetal as well, what shall i do to add greasemetal?