The fact that the Firefox browser is open source has tremendous advantages to users. One major advantage is Security but most users are aware of the security benefits of Firefox versus IE. One advantage many folks aren’t aware of yet is the abundance of additional software and ‘hacks’ available to make the browser act in ways the user desires.

One such hack is a software widget known as Greasemonkey. By adding greasemonkey to firefox you can tweak your browser by adding pre-written (or creating) scripts that can essentially rewrite web pages and change the behaviors of your favorite web pages.

Users can expect this type of customiziation to become more mainstream over time but for the most part today this type of tweaking is the domain of us geeks.