Chickenfoot

Chickenfoot is a tool that puts a programming environment in Firefox so you can write scripts to manipulate web pages and automate web browsing. In Chickenfoot, scripts are written in a superset of Javascript that includes special functions specific to web tasks.

Chickenfoot is similar to Greasemonkey, but tries to provide a higher level abstraction of web pages, more appropriate for end-user programming.

Take a look at the examples and decide for yourself.

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Limited Support for other OSs

I couldn't really use this exciting tool because I use Linux. I couldn't even do the example of inserting the link for the MIT library on a bookstore listing. I hope they get Mac/*nix support soon, as it seems very useful.

...and newer versions of Firefox

I do have Windows, but (unfortunately?) no older versions of Firefox (versions up to 1.0.7 are supported).

Probably instead of being a DSL exercise this demonstrates the sad state of browser standards?

I am thinking about building

I am wondering about building even higher level domain abstractions specific to one or a few related sites.

Does this make sense? Basically the idea is to use Greasemonkey (or Chickenfoot) to implement site specific DSLs.

For a concrete example you might try to imagine a Greasemonkey-DSL for Gmail which would make Gmail tweaking via GM easier using Gmail specific abstractions.