Today I threw together a Firefox Extension that hides the huge and ugly Advertisement Sidebar on Grooveshark. Get it here, and let me know what you think!
Today I threw together a Firefox Extension that hides the huge and ugly Advertisement Sidebar on Grooveshark. Get it here, and let me know what you think!
December 7th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Interesting idea… I get this though:
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Firefox could not install the file at
http://www.zoeandgavin.com/code/groovesharkads.xpi
because: Download error
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Why not just use adblock or something like that
December 7th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Try saving the XPI file to your computer and opening it with Firefox. Let me know if that works.
The main difference between this and the “adblock” extension, is that I made this! It’s my first Firefox extension.
December 7th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I guess so… are you going to keep it up to date? When grooveshark gets wind of your little operation… they will be changing things up
December 7th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
They could start doing what Craftster does - no CSS, no id’s… just a bunch of nameless tables… That would make it difficult to hide.
Or, they could have a javascript thing that runs every few seconds and changes the ad div to have display=block
December 11th, 2008 at 9:29 am
You just used greasemonkey to make it hidden right?
December 11th, 2008 at 9:59 am
yup, and the userscripts compiler to make it a standalone firefox extension
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:16 am
I was about to make this myself until I found your page! Thanks! Adblock Plus wouldn’t collapse that element, so this is great!