One of our readers, JoaquÃn Bernal, was nice enough to build and send me a small Chickenfoot script to unhide the Google Groups link I mentioned in the previous blog posting. Chickenfoot is similar to Greasemonkey but with a much simpler syntax. Here is the Chickenfoot script to unhide the link:
click("more link")
l = find("Groups link").html
remove("Groups link");
click("more link")
insert(before("Video link"), l + ' ')
Chickenfoot is a Firefox extension just like Greasemonkey. It can modify websites on the fly when you visit them with Firefox. After installing the Chickenfoot XPI in Firefox, you can insert the script and enable it for the google.com domain.
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Nice find. Thanks. I installed Chickenfoot, created a trigger with the script and it works great.
Sometimes I feel like I live in Google Groups, so saving an extra click is quite a time saver.
It works great for me too Carmen. My thank goes to JoaquÃn for building and sending me the script.
Thanks for the post, this was just what I was looking for! Unfortunately, Chickenfoot was unstable on my system. But it inspired me to write a Greasemonkey script that does the same thing (it can also restore the other hidden links, like Froogle and Books). Details are in my blog post at http://russelldavis.mvps.org/blog/2006/08/27/fixing-google/
Hi Russel, thanks for mentioning your Greasemonkey script, I’m sure it solves the problem neatly. I had a little problem with the Chickenfoot script, too, when I logged in to Google Adwords. Limiting the script to http://www. and groups. fixed this for me.
I will recommend your page to all my friends!
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[...] Recently, Google removed the “Groups” link from the top of their search results page, in favor of a link to Google Video. Why would they do that? Their schemes for capturing the emerging online video market should not interfere with my work. I saw this link which uses something called Chickenfoot to restore the link, but I couldn’t find a Greasemonkey script to do the same, so here is my attempt at one. I even made it the first link in the row, because I think Groups is that important. Filed under: general — dimator @ 12:28 pm [...]