Amazon Teleporter Extension

This is a simple Firefox extension that flips between Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. See this blog post for more info. For most books and CDs, this will let you jump back and forth between the UK page and the US/.com page. Why would you do this?

Access extra reviews For whatever reason, Amazon doesn't consolidate all the English-language reviews. This leaves Amazon.co.uk quite bare, and Amazon.com users might also benefit from a different set of opinions, coming predominately from UK/European users.
Check inventory So you have a deadline on Monday and Amazon's not stocking that all-critical book? Order it from abroad, maybe the other website has a copy!
Access extra features Amazon.co.uk seems to lag behind with some features (such as searching inside books, previews, author blogs) ... this is an easy way for those users to access those features for a given book.

Amazon Teleporter v0.1 (Self-contained Firefox extension)
Amazon Teleporter v0.2 (Self-contained Firefox extension)

Alternatively, visit the Amazon Teleporter Page on Mozilla Add-Ons

Domain Teleporter

This is a Greasemonkey script that does the same as the Amazon Teleporter Extension above. However, it's not limited to Amazon; by opening up the Greasemokney dialog's settings for this script, you can make it apply to all sites (specify "*" for Included Pages, instead of the default Amazon settings). You need Greasemonkey installed to make this script work.

domainteleporter v0.1 (Greasemonkey script)

This is an Experiment

I mainly wrote this to explore the workings of GreaseMonkey and observe the process of creating and submitting a Firefox addon. You can find details of its creation from this blog post.

License

Copyright (c) 2006 Michael Mahemoff

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated 
documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation 
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and
to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions 
of the Software.

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