Imagine how it would be if your favourite sites without ads, had the colour styles you love, had features you enjoy and browsers pimped out…
A neat Firefox add-ons by the name of Stylish and Greasemonkey would be God send for the juntas who love to get the most of their browsing experience.
Browsing the web without Firefox (with Stylish + Greasemonkey) is like driving a speedway on a bicycle. 
Stylish and Greasemonkey does CSS & JavaScript changes respectively to the website to change the way the web site looks, remove ads, add more features, fix ugly sites or just have fun.
How to use them?
First of all, you need to use Firefox web browser and then install Stylish and Greasemonkey Firefox add-ons.
For Stylish hacks visit Userstyles and for Gresemonkey visit Userscripts where you can fin hundreds of styles, hacks and tweaks which put you in control of the appearance of websites, behave and look.
Installing individual hacks is a child’s play. It’s a one click process.
Top 5 Stylish & Greasemonkey Hacks
Here’s the list of the hacks that I like in Stylish and Greasemonkey: (in no particular order)
Stylish
1. OS X Style Google Reader Tweaks - OS X style theme for Google Reader
2. about:blank - Dark Firefox - Because your home page should not be blank! So much styles are available
3. Center images - Better rendering of image only web page
4. Darkoogle - Easy on eyes, killer looks and environment friendly
5. Wikipedia - Grey Lady - Enhancements include larger serif font for readability, nice greyshade colour scheme, distracting menus and headings are rearranged and to make your life easier
Greasemonkey
1. Google Ads Remover+ - More powerful than the AdBlock add-on where you can block every Google Ad including in SERPs
2. Profanity Filter - You don’t want others to tell when to fuck
3. Gmail enhncements - Conversation Preview, Air Skin, Insert HTML Signature, Full Width (more real estate & no ads), Folders4Gmail (miss folders) and many more
4. Greased Lightbox - Better Browsing of sites that link to images such as Google Image Search, Flickr, Gmail, and Facebook.
5. Pre-Fill Comments - blog commenting made easier with a key shortcut
There are hundreds of tweaks and hacks, just go through them and see which ones you like.
How I’ve Customised web sites
The following the screenshot of how I’ve customized web page with the add-ons.
Userstyles (Stylish) | Userscripts (Greasemonkey)
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10 comments ↓
Hmm interesting……..
Its like cappuccino with added cream.
I like firefox more than any other browsers and these add-ons seems pretty good.
Ill definitely try most of them.
Yeah.. let us know what all you added and customized your browser and websites.
Nice tutorial Ashwin . maybe this will make me shift to FF from IE
heard about them specially Greasemonkey but never tried ,time to go for it
Madhur -
You should try it and then see. Maybe you’ll switch.
rahul -
Yeah, try and let me know how it went about…
I’ve heard greasemonkey makes firefox slow. Is it true? Inot i’d definitely give it a try!
^^
Nope, it’s just as fine as ever. Maybe if you add on more and more hacks - then changes are that it becomes slow. Try it out!
Thanks Ashwin.
Btw the small icons you use near Adsense ad unit are not allowed. I haven’t seen much people getting banned cuz of this but google did give out a warning some time back!
I know. Just testing out some things….
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