Mark McAulay

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Remove hootsuite frame by the power of greasemonkey

Firstly, this of course only works on Firefox with the greasemonkey addon installed. If you have no idea what this means, you probably don't need to read any further and you're free to go on your way ;)

** UPDATE ** - This now also works natively under chrome 4. just click the link below to install it as an extension. buh bye hootsuite framery on chrome too ;)

For those of us who like finer grain control of our web browsing, I have created a userscript for a new pet hate of mine. I have noticed an increase of twitter users posting from hootsuite, and there's nothing wrong with that, my issue comes from any links contained within a hootsuite tweet. These do not open as I'd personaly like...in the browser window as intended, but are instead loaded into an iframe with a little toolbar etc so you can interact more with hootsuite. Now that may be fine for many people. Not for me though, I prefer my web pages served straight up thank you very much. I personaly dont want to interact with hootsuite...thats not why i clicked a link now is it?

This userscript breaks out of the hootsuite iframe and renders the page correctly in the browser...it's probably about now that someone will pipe up and tell me there's tons of these already as I know i'm not alone in my dislike for this kind of thing...whatever, I'm just glad that I got to experiment with greasemonkey and that hootsuite frames are a thing of the past.

Grab it here if you want it.

If you find something wrong with it, remember that this is a first attempt and try to be kind/helpfull with any feedback please.

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