Live on the East Coast and want to see Lifehacker's post timestamps on Eastern time? Sick of having to check the "preview comment" box every time you write a comment? In the tradition of the Better Gmail Firefox extension, today we present the Better Lifehacker extension, which adds useful functionality to Lifehacker and its sibling sites, including io9, Gizmodo, and Jezebel. After the jump, see what Better Lifehacker can do, download, and install it in your copy of Firefox. Better Lifehacker Firefox extension What it does: Enhances Lifehacker and other Gawker Media blogs with useful Greasemonkey user scripts. Version: 0.2 Updated: July 1, 2008 Released: June 29, 2008 Creator: Gina Trapani, compiled using a modified version of Anthony Lieuallen's Greasemonkey Compiler. Installation: Click the Better Lifehacker download button below in Firefox. Then press the Install Now button in the dialog box, and restart Firefox. DOWNLOAD MIRROR (Thanks, Chris!) License: Better Lifehacker is licensed under the GNU General Public License as specified by Anthony Lieuallen's Greasemonkey Compiler. To view Better Lifehacker's enabled features and get more information on each, in Firefox's Add-ons dialog, click on Better Lifehacker's Preferences dialog, as shown: Usage: Once you've installed Better Lifehacker visit any Gawker blog to see the enhancements. To turn a feature on or off, visit the extension's Preferences dialog (from the Tools menu) and select or deselect the appropriate checkboxes. Refresh the site to see the changes. Credits: Better Lifehacker is a compilation of user scripts. The full list is as follows: Automatically Check Preview Comment Box Automatically checks off the "Preview Comment" box on Lifehacker.com (and other Gawker Media blogs). By Gina Trapani Comments HTML Helper Adds a simple rich edit interface (Italic, Bold, Link) to any comment text area on the Gawker blogs. By Gina Trapani based heavily on the work of Todd Moon and Jason Rhyley Insert Selected Quote into Your Reply When you select text in a user's comment and click the reply button, the selection will automatically get included into your reply on Lifehacker (and other Gawker Media sites). By Gina Trapani Nest Comment Replies Nests reply comments inside the parent. By YogurtEarl yogurtearl+consumerist@gmail.com Set Time Zone to Eastern on West Coast Gawker Blogs Changes the post time stamp to the Eastern time on Lifehacker, io9, Defamer, and Valleywag. By Gina Trapani Set Time Zone to Pacific on East Coast Gawker Blogs Changes the post time stamp to the Pacific time zone on Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Consumerist, Fleshbot, and Jalopnik. By Gina Trapani Here's a video demonstration of the Insert Selected Quote feature in action: Here's the Comments HTML Helper in action: Here's what Nested Comment Replies look like: Changelog: Version 0.2: Added HTML helper and Nested comment replies. Version 0.1: Released. Bug reports and feature requests: Got a request for a script or feature in Better Lifehacker? A bug, a critique, a suggestion? Leave a comment here. Newcomers, here's how to get a comment login.