If you, like me, want to customize some sites you visit, your best tools are Opera User Javascript, for the Opera browser, and GreaseMonkey, for Firefox.

I use Opera for the sites I have to visit very regularly – I usually have 100+ open tabs on Opera, mostly news and finance related. Opera is the only browser capable of handling this stress without eating up all the PC’s memory and also the only one that allows me to stack the open tabs vertically, instead of an row, making the sessions much more usable.

I use Firefox for casual sites  and I rarely open more than 20 tabs on it. Firefox is memory hungry and I still couldn’t find a theme that stacks tabs, instead of displaying them in a row.

Helpful links:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~vangeijt/opera/userjs.html – My favorite introduction to Opera User Javascript.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~vangeijt/opera/userjs-collection.html#standalone – A collection of Opera User JS scripts.

http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/userjs/specs/#availobj – Events and methods related to Opera User JS.

http://operawiki.info/UserJS – User Javascript (User JS) on OperaWiki.info.

http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/show.dml/12919 – Hallvord Steen’s post on Opera’s user JS.

http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/ - Hallvord Steen’s blog.

http://kyleabaker.com/goodies/opera/userjs/ – Kyle on Opera JS.

http://kyleabaker.com/ – Kyle’s site, mostly Opera focused.

http://www.greasespot.net/ – Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension using which in can customize any web page, via scripts.

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/AJAX – Mozilla’s introduction to AJAX.

http://pt2.php.net/HttpRequest – Official documentation for PHP’s HttpRequest class.

http://www.nusphere.com/kb/phpmanual/function.httprequest-send.htm? – Some HttpRequest examples.

http://www.bin-co.com/php/scripts/load/ – Very good function for URL fetching.

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