It has been a couple years now since Yahoo! purchased the popular social bookmarking service Del.icio.us. Unfortunately, the service has not really seen any improvements in the time since Yahoo! acquired them, so some people have taken it into their own hands to improve the appearance and performance of the site with the use of Greasemonkey scripts.

Before we get started, you’ll want to make sure that you are using the Firefox web browser and already have the Greasemonkey extension installed. Once you’ve got that done, you can install any of the following Del.icio.us scripts that sound useful:

Del.icio.us Improved Appearance Greasemonkey Scripts

Del.icio.us Improved Functionality Greasemonkey Scripts

  • AutoDel.icio.us – Adds auto-complete capabilities to the Del.icio.us posting page.
  • Deja.licio.us – Show whether you have a del.icio.us bookmark for the current page. Uses a cache to reduce Del.icio.us hits. Adds ‘(+)’ to the title for bookmarked sites.
  • Del.icio.us Alpha Sort – Allows you to toggle between chronological or alphabetical sorting of links on a Del.icio.us page. Places a “sort by” control at the top of the page.
  • Del.icio.us Delete Now – Removes the delete-bookmark-confirmation functionality from Del.icio.us.
  • Delicio.us Duplicate Monster II – Removes all duplicate links on Del.icio.us.
  • Delicious Ego – Highlights your bookmarks in http://del.icio.us/url.
  • Del.icio.us Graph a Tag Cloud – Adds a “Graph this item’s Tag Cloud” image link while viewing Del.icio.us.
  • Del.icio.us Sort – Sort Del.icio.us items by number of bookmarkers.
  • Fav.icio.us2 – Add favicons next to posted links on Del.icio.us.
  • Snap.icio.us – Add thumbnails previews to the links posted on Del.icio.us.

Del.icio.us Web 2.0 Greasemonkey Scripts

  • Del.icio.us Stumbles – Adds a link to Del.icio.us that submits all links on the page to StumbleUpon.
  • Digg.licio.us – Adds links to save a Digg story to Del.icio.us.
  • Googlelicious – Places a link to Del.icio.us search result above Google’s results.

Know of one I missed? Let me know in the comments below!