What can you do with Greasemonkey?

Greasemonkey can be used for customizing page appearance, adding new functions to web pages (for example, embedding price comparisons within shopping sites), fixing rendering bugs, combining data from multiple web pages, and numerous other purposes.

What is Greasyfork?

Greasy Fork is a free site providing user scripts to improve your web browsing experience. Greasy Fork is aiming to become the premier user script site after the collapse of userscripts.org, with the biggest audience for your scripts.

Is greasy fork trusted?

Considered safe by WOT A Safer Browsing Experience.

How do user scripts work?

Userscripts are browser-specific and website-specific; a particular script, if installed and supported by your browser, will work only for a particular website (or a group of websites). Unlike regular extensions, user scripts won’t slow your browser down.

Is Tampermonkey a virus?

The tool itself is not dangerous or malicious; it’s how you use it that matters. Before we can talk about the safety of Tampermonkey, it’s essential to discuss how secure user scripts are in general. A user script can be safe, if you trust the developer and know that it does not contain any malware.

Are Greasemonkey scripts safe?

In general though, Greasemonkey scripts should be pretty safe. Try to use scripts with a large number of reviews and users, since these are likely to be more thoroughly vetted and analyzed by the community.

How do I get rid of Tampermonkey?

Remove TamperMonkey from Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate TamperMonkey in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Which is better Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey?

Currently, many users agree that Tampermonkey is much better than Greasemonkey. This isn’t surprising due to the flexibility you get from using Tampermonkey. Tampermonkey is more recent than Greasemonkey and supports all the major browsers.

Can I trust Tampermonkey?

Let’s quickly summarize: Tampermonkey itself is neither safe nor unsafe; it’s just a tool for managing user scripts. However, many user scripts can potentially be dangerous and contain malware. Other user scripts can be bad in the sense that they have unintended side effects, like bad CPU performance.