GM Script: Page Recolorator

So after being linked to GreaseMonkey and getting all excited about it before going to bed, I decided I had to give it a shot. Now granted, my knowledge of using advanced JavaScript is somewhat limited. However, after seeing a request for a GreaseMonkey Script that would simply the colorization of a page I knew I had to give it a shot. I was able to almost copy the code from here verbatim, with a few simple changes to allow it to not throw 20 million errors.

If for some reason you want this, you can download it here.

More cool scripts can be found here.

March 1st, 2005 15 Comments »

15 Responses to “GM Script: Page Recolorator”

  1. Aaron:

    404 on that link. Whaddup.

    March 13th, 2005 at 12:30 am

  2. Tivac:

    Whoops, Sorry about that. Should be Fixed now. I shuffled stuff around recently and obviously didn’t update every link.

    March 13th, 2005 at 12:51 am

  3. brenda vonahsen:

    How do I uninstall it?

    March 14th, 2005 at 10:20 pm

  4. Tivac:

    Tools -> Manage User Scripts -> Select script to remove and press the large “Uninstall” button.

    March 14th, 2005 at 10:26 pm

  5. XEVEN:

    I think your script is a great idea, but uh how does it exactly work, and how do I use it?

    March 25th, 2005 at 2:34 am

  6. Tivac:

    Install Firefox from http://getfirefox.com
    Install GreaseMonkey from http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org
    Restart Firefox.
    Right-click the link to the script, and select “Install User Script”.
    Refresh the page to see the changes.

    March 25th, 2005 at 2:50 am

  7. internot:

    thanks for your efforts … for me, and perhaps others, this color fix tool would be more valuable if it were an on-demand R-click option, invokable when I encounter one of those reader-hostile sites that insists on using a dark background with lite text, rather than applying the color changes to *every* site I visit … how difficult is that to implement? … thanks for even considering my idea — all the best

    March 28th, 2005 at 12:25 pm

  8. edwin:

    You could try going to the manage user scripts section and putting in the sites you don’t want to be affected in the exclude list. It might seem pretty annoying, but it’s one way. You could also just choose to disable it for your session.

    BTW, thanks for the great script.

    April 6th, 2005 at 5:11 pm

  9. different computers:

    And how might I customize the default colors for links?

    Thanks.

    April 19th, 2005 at 5:28 am

  10. Tivac:

    Save it to your desktop, edit the values inside the javascript and reload it. There’s no good method for doing it simply, hopefully someone will create a more robust version.

    This was a quick hack to teach myself greasemonkey scripting, there should be much more elgant solutions out there.

    April 19th, 2005 at 1:38 pm

  11. futoshi:

    thanks for the nifty script

    May 5th, 2005 at 8:57 pm

  12. docomo:

    Great! I’m using it to get white text on dark background, to go with my dark theme in gnome.

    May 14th, 2005 at 4:48 pm

  13. jlm:

    This script is great, however it doesn’t work on every bit of text:

    http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/helloworld/editing.html

    http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

    This is easy for me to notice since I am using green text on a black background with yellow links.

    All your website are belong to me.

    May 17th, 2005 at 5:42 am

  14. Jason:

    ***** Beautiful!

    July 18th, 2005 at 9:08 am

  15. Tom:

    This can be done without a userscript, without GM, even accessible through Firefox’s option.

    August 26th, 2005 at 11:32 am