To accommodate the growing number of scripts, was founded by Britt Selvitelle and other members of the Greasemonkey community in late 2005. However, this criticism shifted its focus to other addons starting with the 2006 release of Adblock Plus. Greasemonkey was initially met with complaints by publishers for its ability to block ads. During this time, a Greasemonkey compiler was also developed for converting a userscript into a standalone Firefox extension. In July 2005, serious vulnerabilities were found in Greasemonkey by Mark Pilgrim, and fixed in the 3.5 version of Greasemonkey. By May 2005, there were approximately 60 general and 115 site-specific userscripts distributed for Greasemonkey. Boodman was inspired to write Greasemonkey after looking at a Firefox extension designed to clean up the interface of AllMusic, written by Adrian Holovaty, who later became a userscript developer. The Greasemonkey project began 28 November 2004, written by Aaron Boodman.
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