Asa Dotzler: Firefox and more

From the very beginning of the Mozilla and Firefox projects, one of the questions we've always asked ourselves is "what's painful about the web" and then we went about finding ways to take away that pain. Tabbed browsing, integrated web search, pop-up blocking, session restore, software update, all of these features, and many more, were designed to make painful, difficult, or just plain sucky things a little bit less painful, difficult or sucky.

But one of the wonderful things about the Mozilla project and its open system is that we've got a huge community of people doing this every day for every possible pain point on the web.

Today another example of this just hit my radar. "You know what really sucks," this guy must have asked himself. "What really sucks is when someone gives away the ending to Harry Potter before I've had a chance to read it."

Well, thanks to Firefox's extensibility and the GreaseMonkey user script add-on, he was able to create a Harry Potter spoiler remover script that removes spoilers from web pages. Now users can surf the web and not have to worry about accidentally reading spoilers.

Isn't that cool? I think it's just fabulous.

Scripts available here, here, and here

Photo by Flickr user marinegirl and used under a Creative Commons license.