Redbubble on steroids for Firefox users
There’s nifty Firefox extension called Greasemonkey that lets you customize the way a web page displays using small bits of JavaScript.
Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at http://userscripts.org , and now there’s one for redbubble.
Based on a script for displaying large versions of thumbnails on facebook, I’ve created one that shows large image previews of art and clothing when hovering over most thumbnails and many links on redbubble.com.
To give it a whirl, install Firefox (as if you haven’t already), install Greasemonkey (requires browser restart), then install my script (just click on it and Greasemonkey should pick it up)
Then when you load a page, hover over a thumbnail or art/clothing link and gasp in amazement at the amount of time you’ve saved not clicking through (which you can still do of course). I got addicted to it very quickly, so much so that I immediately missed it when using another computer.
This is a first release and may have a quirk or 3. Comments/feedback welcome here.
Update 04JAN08: Fixed the bugs that Xavier reported, writing now works, and the hover disappears when it should. To update, install it again at the link above.
Nick Hartigan
sweet well done man this is awesome i love it so much and it is making my RB browsing time (and belive me there is a lot) much easier and more convenient.
Cathie Tranent
Thanks Roger!!
awoni
awesome!!!love it!!!
Xavier Shay
nice work, that’s ace
Xavier Shay
errors if you mouse over writing in either the gallery or one of your favorites
Xavier Shay
mouse over an image, then run your mouse outside the browser window before it finishes loading – the image does not dissappear when you bring your mouse back in.
Sorry, trying to be supportive, this is a really cool script :)
Pilgrim
Really cool. It is all go on my system!
Roger Barnes
Thanks all for your comments. I’m glad that it’s acceptable to the owners of the site :)
I’ll try to have a look at the bugs over the coming days. I’m more than happy to take input from any other javascript/greasemonkey guns out there too, especially being a bit time poor at the moment.
If it can be polished up a little more, perhaps it can be included as an optional feature directly in the rb site code for all.
Bahoke
Wow, I installed this add-on and it is so
cool, thank you for doing this!!
skunk
So far so good!
Thanks for this
skunk
Actually ive already disabled it…While it is good for getting the thumbnails instantly bigger without having to click, i found it was a bit too annoying after awhile.
Xavier Shay
good work on the update
Lynniebear
Thanks Roger – this is a great little tool!
Stephen Mitchell
Wow, wow and triple wow. Thanks for making this script!
Durotriges
That is an awesome script! Nice work! :-D
Brittany Kinney
That’s really cool, thank you for sharing this script with us! I love it!! =D
William Hallatt
There we go mate! Splentaculid! :D
iffymood
Thanks for sharing this, it’s such a timesaver.
Joel Hall
Pretty cool Roger, thanks!
WJPhotography
Thank you so much Roger…..I love this script…...wendy
Gino Iori
Great app – thanks