I’ve written before about Greasemonkey and some of the cool things you can do with it.

Now Trixie brings many of the same benefits to IE. Not all scripts work in both browsers, but many do. To install Trixie, see the Trixie download page. The Trixie scripts page lists a set of scripts that have tested to work with Trixie.

Here is a message from the author of Trixie on the greasemonkey mailing list describing its creation and future plans. My quick hacks all occur over the proverbial weekend, but Trixie apparently came together in just 3-4 hours.

I wrote Trixie for fun (while on vacation) because I happen to frequently use IE (for some reasons as cited on the web site) and wanted to have fun like all you Greasemonkey users. I wrote it for myself, but then decided to post it on the web, so others could use it too….

Some of you commented that it is closed source. Well, yeah, as I said I didn’t think much about all this. Will I make it open source? I am thinking about it but I don’t promise it. Not because I am opposed to it, but because I am not sure I have the time commitment towards doing that.

There were mentions of the use of the .NET framework. I did consider writing it in C++, but then which IE user doesn’t have the framework installed (not counting all those on Win9x of course). And besides, it would have definitely taken much longer than 3-4 hours.

Will I add more features like cross domain xmlhttp? I am looking into it.

So, all you IE users, have fun without Firefox envy. And all you Firefox script writers - if you have a script that works on IE, send it my way and I shall link it from the Trixie website. And do consider writing scripts that work on both Firefox and IE. Maybe we could add little icons next to the scripts on Jeremy’s script repository to indicate which browsers they work on.