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I am new to Firefox, what is the easiest way to dynamically change something like

<td class="something"><div style="width: 200px;">
randomtext

to

<td class="something"><div style="width: 200px;">
<a href="www.somewhere.com/randomtext">randomtext
</a></div></td>

on an external webpage (a page not under my control)

While searching I found Greasemonkey, but it doesn't look very user-friendly. Is there an easier way to do this?

Jaap Baanders
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    Can you give some context? Are you writing a Firefox plugin/extension? Is this for a website you are building? – atmd Jan 12 '15 at 10:16
  • You want to change it for you? For everybody? Is that your site?. May be done through GreaseMonkey but you'll need to give your script to other people wanting to see the link. – Michael Laffargue Jan 12 '15 at 10:17
  • Sorry, I should have specified I am trying to load an external page on Firefox and make that bit of text a link to another page. I'll update the question – Jaap Baanders Jan 12 '15 at 10:18
  • Still, do you use an iframe to load the page, or is your server reading it and giving it back to the browser? – Michael Laffargue Jan 12 '15 at 10:19
  • I just use Firefox to load an external page. In this page, somewhere, there will be a
    with a random piece of text in it. After the page loads, I want Firefox to make that random piece of text a link to www.example.com/radompieceoftext. I've looked at Greasemonkey, but it seems overly complicated and not very user-friendly. I can't be the first person to want to do this, so hopefully someone has an easier way to do this.
     – Jaap Baanders Jan 12 '15 at 10:24
  • possible duplicate of [Greasemonkey - Replace text with link to that text](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27905306/greasemonkey-replace-text-with-link-to-that-text) – Brock Adams Jan 12 '15 at 22:23

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Using GreaseMonkey you'll be able to modify the page you load from Firefox. But only for you, if you want other to have the same behaviour you'll have to give them you script.

You can also prepare a Javascript script used as a bookmark : bookmarklet

Here again, if you want others to have it you'll have to give it to them.

Michael Laffargue
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