Sat 6 Jan 2007
To All Web Savy Browser Gurus - Help
Posted by RichSlick under Uncategorized
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I need help solving a problem that has been vexing me for quite some time and I have yet to find a solution.
I read many financial websites that almost always include a ticker symbol for a company, ETF or fund of some kind.
Here is an example of such a page.
The Problem: I prefer to use finance.yahoo.com for all my symbol information quote look ups. I don’t like finance.google.com or marketwatch.com or other stock symbol sites. In order to get options information from finance.google.com you actually have to click over to marketwatch.com and their format is unpleasant.
The Question: Is there any plugin, utility or special trick that will allow me to open all ticker symbols (regardless of where they’re from) in finance.yahoo.com?
I hope someone has a solution because I’ve gotten to the point where I avoid articles like the one I linked to above from Fortune because their symbol links take you to http://money.cnn.com or I end up having to cut and paste the symbol and manually load it into finance.yahoo.com.
Any ideas?
I primarily use Firefox browser.
January 7th, 2007 at 8:28 am
I imagine you could do this with Greasemonkey (a firefox extension). I haven’t toyed with greasemonkey, but if the symbols are the same from one site to the other, you can probably have it rewrite all occurrences that point to finance.google.com (or whatever) to finance.yahoo.com .
January 7th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Okay, I just wrote a simple userscript that does this. It may not be exactly what you want, but it rewrites urls to point to finance.yahoo.com.
View it here:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7013
January 7th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Thank you Kyle!
Thanks for referring me to grease monkey and thanks for the script - it works perfectly!
It does exactly what I want, redirect stock/etf symbols on web pages over to finance.yahoo.com!
For anyone else interested:
1. Be sure to install greasemonkey firefox plugin.
2. Install the script and voila!
January 7th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Cool, it’s the first script I’ve made. Plus there are charts and quotes so I’m not sure if there’s a difference on google. Leave a comment on the userscripts page if anything needs to be changed, and I’ll see what I can do.