[Greasemonkey] A question from the ignorant

[Nikolas Coukouma]

Andrew Bell wrote:

> I've been using greasemonkey via platypus, and it's been pretty
> handy.  However, I really hate the way I see the initial version of
> the page, followed by the redisplay of the page with my GM/platypus
> modifications.  Moreover, I'd really like to avoid the bandwidth cost
> of downloading the various things I'm eliminating.
>
> Am I correct in assuming this would require low-level changes in
> Firefox, or some special OS intercept of the http calls , as opposed
> to being within the capabilities of Greasemonkey?
>
> Andrew Bell 

Most of the "avoiding bandwidth cost" is handled by the browser cache.
As for not rendering what you're going to remove, you'd have to edit the
source before Firefox rendered it. This is both icky and hard
(impossible?) to do.

I'm a bit confused about the redisplay issue; don't changes-via-Platypus
occur instantly and are (optionally) persisted as a Greasemonkey script?

-Nikolas