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googlesystem.blogspot.com - 10/19/2008

Google Chrome to Add Greasemonkey Support

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A recent build of Chromium, the open source project behind Google Chrome, added support for user scripts. For now, the support is limited: Chromium reads the scripts from the hard-coded directory c:\scripts and it ignores the @include metadata which restricts scripts to one or more web ...

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