You will need to be running Mozilla Firefox, and have the Grease Monkey Plugin. Just click that link (and click through the splash screen for old time's sake), and tell it to install, restart Firefox.
Now, you will need the script (which was custom written by a friend of mine).
You can get it here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24976
Just click on the black install button on the right hand side, and Greasemonkey will automatically pull it in for you.
Thats it, you're done! You will never see the splash screen ever again, rejoice!
Make sure and leave a comment or two on userscripts to show the love to the guy who made it all possible.
Current Known Bugs:
None.
Copy the following text into a text editor and save it as a .js file:
Beautiful!
And here's a link to an internal thread where I link to this one. The link there breaks, and this link to it may break as well:
http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=1012969&page=2
Odd, that link works, but the other one in that thread doesn't.
Okay, new version of the script up at userscripts.org that should properly handle encoded urls. I haven't experienced any issues with internal links using this version, so let me know if you find anything.
Copy-pasting your code into the UserJavaScript code seems to do it for Opera version(with some modifications). Would you mind if I modify my post to include the effected code?
Copy-pasting your code into the UserJavaScript code seems to do it for Opera version(with some modifications). Would you mind if I modify my post to include the effected code?
No issue at all.
No issue at all.
Thanks, just making sure.
...there's gotta be a cleaner way of doing it though.
I don't use Opera, so I really don't know if there is a better implementation to use there.
You clever gamers, you! :D
At the risk of being bombarded with flame, does anyone have a fix for IE7? (Work makes me use it.)
I was tempted to build it. IE would require a browser helper object -- not hard to code, but a bit harder to install.
If there isn't sign of one on the weekend, I'll try putting it together.
Cheers, LT.
Splash Screen? Haven't seen it for a while, thanks to the redirect remover.
So glad you shared that with the rest of us as soon as the splash screen came up. Would have sucked to make everybody suffer through that thing all this time, ya know?
Oh well, that one looks rather buggy, so I'm sticking to the one zyborn made.
[I didn't even notice the new screen thanks to that.
Someone else pointed me to that thread.]edit: looking for the original author, I found another script. I don't really understand how it works though.
edit2: Pellanor gets the credit.
@zybron: perhaps you can tell me if it's more/less efficient and more/less complete. I'm not even sure the '&origin' part is useful.
But I think you're doing the 'unescape' manually.
@Water_to_Fire: I use greasemonkey under Ff 3 ?!
Splash Screen? Haven't seen it for a while, thanks to the redirect remover.
Cheers, LT.
Handy. And so late.
So glad you shared that with the rest of us as soon as the splash screen came up. Would have sucked to make everybody suffer through that thing all this time, ya know?
Well, I forgot about it - I installed it a while ago when I toyed around with Firefox, but not with the intent to get rid of the splash screen. It was rather a side effect, so I didn't pay attention to that - only your thread on the Eberron board reminded me of it.
Cheers, LT.
Woo hoo!
Let's hope they don't lock this thread for some vague violation, though. If anything, this should be stickied.
Yay, thanks for that link.
Let's hope they don't lock this thread for some vague violation, though. If anything, this should be stickied.
There is nothing in the CoC or the Terms of Use prohibiting us from using third party software to change the way in which we view their site. Which they can't do, actually, as something as simple as which browser you use would render the site differently.
Anyway, I doubt they'll say anything about it.
They didn't say anything about it when I put up instructions on how to modify the login cookie to remove the 2 week limit*, after all.
*For those that don't know, there is another Firefox plugin called Cookie Editor that lets you manually modify your cookies. Just browse until you find a Gleemax cookie that is set to expire in a week or two (careful, there are several cookies that set just for one day that need to be left alone. When in doubt, wait until the cookie logs you out, then go looking for it.), and then manually change it's expiration date to 2099 or some other gawd-awful long time away.
They didn't say anything about it when I put up instructions on how to modify the login cookie to remove the 2 week limit*, after all.
From an editorial standpoint, both this and the login cookie thread (as well as the thread about ways to block ads) are perfectly fine discussions to have. As long as it doesn't involve any illegal activities, most threads along these lines are okay for our forums.
Not yet, AFAIK.
As far as I know, IE7 (and all former editions) is not open source, and thus add-ons or plug-ins aren't as easy to make for it as something like Firefox or Opera.
As far as I know, IE7 (and all former editions) is not open source, and thus add-ons or plug-ins aren't as easy to make for it as something like Firefox or Opera.
Opera actually isn't open-source and thus doesn't have extentions. However, it's got enough built-in custimization and features that allows it to do most of the things one can do with Firefox anyways.
As far as I know, IE7 (and all former editions) is not open source, and thus add-ons or plug-ins aren't as easy to make for it as something like Firefox or Opera.
The method of plug-in creation is different since IE7 doesn't include a way to run custom javascript.
Plug-ins are still possible with the older-style browser helper objects, but they involve the creation and registration of .dll files. That means a few things: the installation takes user rights and may not be possible in a corporate environment and the user has to place some trust in the plug-in. IE7 does reduce the Really Naughty Things a nasty programmer can do to your system, but trust is still needed.
I meant to work on a BHO of the weekend, but was was distracted by fun.
However, I think there might be a minor bug in the Firefox version. After installing it, if I just clicked on the link it worked fine, but if I did the "open in new tab" middle-click, the splash screen still came up. After opening and closing Firefox twice, it works both ways, but I thought you might want to know about that in case someone should install it, click "open in new tab," see the splash screen, and think it didn't work.
Oh, and just a thought--will this get rid of the old banner at the top of the screen, assuming they ever go back to that?
Basically, what it does is monitors the clicks you make, and when it sees the redirect url of "whatever.com/redirect=http://..." it strips out the whatever.com/redirect= and then puts the straight URL back into the browser.
Nice thing about it that anyone can edit the file.
Just ignore all the code and look for the line with the URL. Find where it defines the redirect, and change it should the redirect URL ever change. You don't have to wait on one of us to fix it.
As long as it uses the same redirect URL, yes, it should kill the bar as well.
Basically, what it does is monitors the clicks you make, and when it sees the redirect url of "whatever.com/redirect=http://..." it strips out the whatever.com/redirect= and then puts the straight URL back into the browser.
Nice thing about it that anyone can edit the file.
Just ignore all the code and look for the line with the URL. Find where it defines the redirect, and change it should the redirect URL ever change. You don't have to wait on one of us to fix it.
Yeah, I know what it does conceptually; I'm a compsci guy myself. I was basically saying "I'm lazy--have you written it to automatically handle it, or do I have to change the URL myself?" If it's the second, that's fine, I just wanted to double-check.