Trixie is to Internet Explorer as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. It lets you remix the Web via scripts. You may do this to either make it more readable, fix bugs or to even add little features to make the site more usable to you. Trixie by itself does none of this. It is just a plugin for Internet Explorer that enables executing chunks of JavaScript code and thus lets you use the Web the way you want to use it.
Despite the growing popularity of Firefox, there are many who still use Internet Explorer everyday, either because they haven't heard of Firefox, they haven't mustered the courage to install it, they are too accustomed to using IE or due to necessity (many offices use Windows with NT authentication and IE is thus the defacto browser). Whatever the reason to run IE, they should still be able to remix the Web like the lucky Firefox users. Thus, Trixie.
The author of Trixie happens to one such user of Internet Explorer.
Any Greasemonkey script is a Trixie script. Though, due to differences between Firefox and Internet Explorer, not all Greasemonkey scripts can be executed within IE. Trixie makes no attempt to allow Greasemonkey scripts to run unaltered, since it is best to have the script author account for the differences and have the script run on both browsers if he/she so chooses.
Refer to the excellent Greasemonkey documentation to learn how to write Greasemonkey/Trixie scripts. Note that some of the information there won't be applicable to Internet Explorer and Trixie.
Trixie requires the Microsoft .NET framework to be installed.
By default, Trixie installs in your Program Files\Bhelpuri\Trixie directory (you can of course change this location). It also installs a few scripts to the Program Files\Bhelpuri\Trixie\Scripts directory.
Restart IE after installing Trixie. Once you have restarted, go to the Tools menu. You should see a menu item called "Trixie Options". Selecting that will show you the list of scripts installed and which one's are enabled or disabled.
Once you have installed Trixie, you browse the Web just like you always do. Trixie works in the background executing the scripts on the designated pages and customizing them to your needs.
To install a new script, download the script into the Scripts directory under the Trixie installation folder. By default, this is at Program Files\Bhelpuri\Trixie\Scripts. Then, go to the Tools menu and select "Trixie Options" (Alt-T, X). This will show the Trixie Options dialog where you can click on the "Reload Scripts" button and select Ok. This will load your new script and enable it. Note that unlike Greasemonkey where the metadata section is optional, Trixie requires a metadata section in the script.
The Trixie Options dialog (Alt-T, X) can be used to manage the scripts you have installed. From this dialog, you can view the scripts installed, enable or disable scripts or reload scripts. The dialog also shows which sites or pages the script will execute on.
Trixie installs a few scripts on install. You can find those and others here.
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