GreaseMonkey native support in Chrome 4

When Google introduced support for extensions for Chrome, there were only about 300 of them on the opening day of the gallery, but the next day it was 500. Over the past two months, the number has grown to several thousand, and now we can talk about an instant tenfold increase, because in Chrome 4 appeared native support scripts GreaseMonkey.

It's no secret that for this project, Google has invited Aaron Budman, the author of Greasemonkey, to work . He managed so well to integrate his development into the browser that Chrome perceives user scripts as regular extensions that are installed and disabled using the standard procedure.

Aaron writes that more than 40,000 scripts have been collected on the userscripts.org site alone. True, he notes that not all scripts written for Greasemonkey, Chrome will work normally (due to differences in Chrome and Firefox), about 15-25% of scripts will have to be redone. The rest can work without changes.

Budman created GreaseMonkey in 2004 specifically for the Firefox browser, but now he puts all his efforts to improve the version for Chrome. In this sense, Firefox has lost a lot. And this is not the first mistake in a kind of confrontation between Firefox and Chrome.
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via TechCrunch