To hide the quiz, you can either click the hide button and select hide yadayada quiz or simply hide the person, I prefer the latter. But if you don’t want to hide the friend but still want to hide the quizzes, facebook Purity saves your day.

First you’ll have to install Greasemonkey (works on Firefox) or Greasekit (works on Safari). And after that you can get the userscript here. Cool huh? Opera users, check out this article, looks like you can also run Greasemonkey userscripts in Opera. Chrome users are also in luck, check out this article.

Internet Explorer users, you’re on your own. Good luck.

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Some people are excited about the changes, some don’t. I personally can’t get used to the tab bar relocation so I looked for a solution to revert it back. There is the hard way, typing this and that into Terminal app but hey, let’s cheat and use the easier way.

Swoon dot net made a neat app that allows us to tweak the hidden preferences in Safari, such as relocate the tab bar to where it used to be. Installation is fairly simple, you can’t screw this up, really. Download the app here and run it.

My safari 4 buddy preferences

Press apply and restart your Safari. Voila! You’ve got your familiar-looking Safari with the massive new features :)

Note: if you are using Safari 4 on Windows and you’re looking for the hidden preferences: sorry, not your lucky day.

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Neat innit? The problem is: GreaseMonkey cannot be installed in Safari, Mac OSX’s default browser (and by far my favorite one). Solution: GreaseKit. Here’s how.

First we’re going to have to install SIMBL. SIMBL is a software that lets you modify Cocoa applications. In this case, we’re modifying Safari.

After installing SIMBL, we can now proceed to installing GreaseKit (download it here). GreaseKit is not an application, it’s a SIMBL add on. Double click the DMG file and you’ll see this file:

Drag GreaseKit.bundle to OSX (this being your system root) > Library > Application Support > SIMBL > Plugins.

Install location - click to view larger image

Now restart your Safari app and check the menu bar, there will be an additional menu that says GreaseKit. That does it, now you can browse the available user scripts and install the ones you like :)

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Granted, you have the need to check your website/web app in popular browsers: Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox 1, 2, 3, Chrome, Safari and Opera. Installing Chrome, Safari and Opera is a no-brainer, but those multiple versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox can be tricky. Here’s how we can do it.

Note: in this article I am using Windows XP with IE6 as a default browser. If you’re on Vista and you already have IE 7 installed you can skip the IE7 installation section.

Before we start, these are the installers we’re going to need. Don’t worry if you don’t have it yet, we will discuss about where (and how) to get them as we go.

Installing Internet Explorer 6 and 7

First we’re going to install IE7, this is also a no-brainer. Get it here and experience Microsoft’s long-ass installation and an unnecessary restart. Done and done with IE7, now we’re going to setup IE6. Download the Multiple IE installer, it’s free and it’s superuseful :)

Run the installer and keep going next until you see a checkbox selection like this:

If your target audience includes the good old Windows 98, 95 and Windows 3.1.1 users then definitely select them all. If that’s not the case then just leave it all unclicked except Internet Explorer 6.

Installing Firefox 1.5, 2 and 3

Thanks to this article, installing these browsers can be done easily. First you have to get all Firefox installers. Firefox 3 can be downloaded from this link, Firefox 2 here and Firefox 1.5 here.

I’d start with Fx 3 because that’s my favorite. Do a custom installation, choose where you want to install Firefox 3. In my case I want to install it here:

Next we’ll launch Firefox Profile Manager. This part’s a bit tricky so let’s pay extra attention here. What we’re going to do is we go to the Mozilla Firefox start menu folder by right-clicking the shortcut on the start menu.

Explore the Firefox start menu folder

Then we’re going into the duplicated shortcut’s properties by right-clicking the shortcut and select Properties. These are the values you’re going to change: in the Target field, add the following string: -profilemanager.

Shortcut Properties

Rename the shortcut to Profile Manager and launch it. We will need to create 3 different profiles for each Firefox installation. Here are my Firefox Profiles:

Firefox Profiles

Now you can install Fx 2 and 1.5 with custom installation, just remember to change the install directory. Your installation directory should look similar to what I have on the left side screenshot. We’re almost there, it’s a pretty long journey but we’re getting there.

Hang on.

Next step is the finishing strike. We’re going to put all the application shortcut to one place and modify the target just like we modify it on the Profile Manager section up there.

Here’s what we do, we add this string to the target field: -p “Fx 1″ where Fx 1 is the profile we made for that version of Firefox. Take a look at this screenshot for an example.

Et voila! That’s it! Now you have 3 Firefox installations running with different profiles. This means they can have different passwords saved, different bookmarks and so on. Please take a note that you can only run one Firefox instance at a time.

Have fun developing your website! :)

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