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Subtitle: broken by impress.js I've been using Linux as the primary OS on all my laptops since a loooong time ago and until recently I always chose computers fitted with nvidia graphics over any other brand because their drivers probably have the best quality and performance. My last (and current) laptop, an HP ProBook, came with ATI graphics, but since in the last years ATI seemed to have caught up, I decided to give it a try. For over two yeas the laptop performed extremely well with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as everything worked right out of the box with no customization whatsoever. Suspend/resume worked, performance was great and boot time pretty good too (for a conventional hard drive at 7200rpm, at least). The problems came with the upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04.

Today I was browsing this article about Windows Vista and I couldn't read it because all of my attention was in not moving the mouse over one of those IntelliTXT ads. But now that I have tasted the great power of greasemonkey I just don't have to take it anymore: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4250 Install it and enjoy!

Today I googled for a greasemonkey script to hide ads on the corriere.it home page, just to see if I'm the only one scratching that itch. It seems that another user has solved it, and his solution is also more complete: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5168

I am getting increasingly tired of the massive amount of advertising that is stuffed into most web pages. So I decided to drop epiphany for firefox which has excellent ad-block support and for some time I have been quite happy with it. But lately I got really annoyed again when I occasionally surf the corriere della sera. I will talk another time about the horrendous fixed-size design which wastes good part of 23" Cinema display, for today I'll only mention the heavy graphics divs that appear on the left and the right columns of most articles. Those are really difficult to get rid of, even with adblock. So I decided to take greasemonkey for a spin. I installed it and after skimming through the manual I dived into my first script which is right below: // Corriere.it user script // version 0.1 BETA! // 2005-04-22 // -------------------------------------------------------------------- // // This is a Greasemonkey user script. // // To install, you need Greasemonkey: http://gr...