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Backup and move your gleeBox settings

Ankit — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:25:07 +0000

If you use gleeBox in more than one browser (on the same or another machine), you can export your settings and then import them in the other browser via Options.

This means you won’t have to create your favorite esp visions or scrapers again in the other browser.

This also works between Chrome and Firefox.

Use Gleebox on Google Reader without disabling builtin shortcuts

Dan Jones — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:57:24 +0000

I like to change my shortcut key for Gleebox to “;”, rather than “g”. That way, when I’m on Google Reader, I can still use the “g” shortcut that Google Reader has built-in, and still use Gleebox on the page.
I chose the semi-colon because having it right on my right pinky I find really convenient.

For some reason, though, this doesn’t work with Gmail, even after removing gmail from the disable urls. Anybody know why that is?

Readability settings

paul1149 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:24:09 +0000

Hi. Really like the Readability function, but not so much the choice of font. Is there any way to change that? Thanks.

Use YubNub commands without :

Sameer — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:01:17 +0000

Found this on the comments page for the extension, seems to be something that a few users would be interested in:

This works great. I couldn’t get it to work out of the box with the YubNub commands. I did, however, get it to work by changing the default search to “http://www.yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=” (no quotes). That’s actually all I wanted it to do: run YubNub commands in a overlay box instead of using it from the address/search bar. Keep up the great work!

Changing reability settings

callum150 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:20:33 +0000

Is there any way to change the readability settings used by gleebox or do you have to just use the bookmark function that their website gives and then access it from gleebox?

!inspect command

Ankit — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:49:08 +0000

This new command in version 1.5 allows you to quickly get the jQuery selector an for element. You can then run that selector in jQuery mode and modify it to create an esp vision or scraper.

Here is an example to try on twitter.com:

!inspect direct

This will return the jQuery selector for the right side nav menu-items. Try running the selector in jQuery (*) mode.

Create a default selector for your site

Sameer — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:27:57 +0000

Welcome gleeBox users to your site by defining a default ESP vision for them. Just add the following META tag to your page’s HTML:

For an example, view the source code of this page to see the META tag, and open gleeBox to see it in action. If the user already has a vision for the page, it will override the site-defined vision.

If you end up adding this to your site, do let us know via twitter or as a comment to this tip.

Thanks Keith for this very cool idea.

Stumbleupon Favorite?

timothymcn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:51:46 +0000

I have no idea what a jquery is, so I am gonna need some help -
There is already a !page command for sharing on stumbleupon, but is there a way to just thumbs up a page, without sharing it w/ your SU friends?

!set command

Ankit — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:06:37 +0000

Use it to set options from within gleeBox
Examples:

!set pos=bottom – Change gleeBox’s position on page to bottom
!set theme=greener – Change theme to Greener
!set size=small – Change gleeBox size to small
!set scroll=off – Turn animated scrolling off

For the complete list, see user manual

HyperGlee

Sameer — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:16:10 +0000

Enter:
!set hyper=on
to turn HyperGlee on. gleeBox will now open as soon as the page loads without you having to press ‘g’.

To turn the feature off,
!set hyper=off

This is an undocumented, partially-working feature; so try it at your own risk.