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Seeking an extension that replaces strings in text on specific web pages

Unread post by Mæstro » 2022-12-28, 03:37

As the title indicates, I seek an extension, whether targeted at Pale Moon or for legacy Firefox, that can replace strings in a given site’s text without disturbing the rest of the site or other sites. A simple example of this, not my intended use case, would be something that could replace any use of the word ‘pear’ with ‘apple’ on the Wikipedia page for pears. I vaguely recall extensions like this had existed for Firefox before 2013. Could somebody please show me one?
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Re: Seeking an extension that replaces strings in text on specific web pages

Unread post by freedom4all » 2022-12-28, 17:17

I remember years back there was a popular meme that people used these extensions for, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

I found an old greasemonkey script to do this. Probably sufficient to do simple text replacement replace text on forums, wikipedia, etc, but probably won't work on dynamic content. Just have to replace the @include domains with the domain you're targeting.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120419140 ... view/41369

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Re: Seeking an extension that replaces strings in text on specific web pages

Unread post by vannilla » 2022-12-28, 23:19

Well, a few years back there was that "jew echo" extension, you know, the one that added the triple parentheses around certain names taken from a list.
I doubt that's what you want to use, but barring anything better, assuming the code is available somwhere someone can just modify it to suit whatever requirement.

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Re: Seeking an extension that replaces strings in text on specific web pages

Unread post by _yuyu_ » 2022-12-29, 01:13

FoxReplace 0.17.3 (the latest version that works on Pale Moon).
It can be found in the Classic Addons Archive
Pale Moon 32-bit on Win 7 x64

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Re: Seeking an extension that replaces strings in text on specific web pages

Unread post by Mæstro » 2022-12-29, 01:28

FoxReplace is the add-on I had remembered! I had thought to check the CAA and try FoxReplace, but had only tried versions which do not work in Pale Moon. Version 0·17·3 substitutes on the pages I need as desired. Thank you!
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Re: Seeking an extension that replaces strings in text on specific web pages

Unread post by BenFenner » 2023-01-01, 13:38

Years ago when the place I worked (and others) starting adding obnoxious IT-related boilerplate to the body of outgoing e-mails using a MITM attack I looked for a similar extension for Thunderbird so I could at least avoid having to see it myself. I looked for profanity filters thinking that would do the trick, but never found anything really promising.
It's nice to know there might be something out there for people in a similar situation.

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