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Command: donate rice

You know how I’ve suggested ways of using freerice.com to good use in the past? Yeah, well, I’m doing it again. I’ve got a better system that takes no effort after initial setup and will yield greater results.

So here’s what you do.

  1. Download and install and use Firefox. Most of you should have that skip covered already.
  2. Download and install Greasemonkey.
  3. Optional: Download and install FaviconizeTab. This will allow you to shrink the Freerice tab, so if you don’t care how big the tab is, you don’t need to do this.
  4. Reboot Firefox. This makes the newly downloaded addons actually work.
  5. Install the freerice cheater. This is a script that Greasemonkey uses.
  6. Go to freerice.com.
  7. Answer the question. If it starts rapidly answering for you and wracking up the rice, skip to step 13, else continue.
  8. Right click on the little monkey face at the bottom of your browser and click Manage User Scripts.
    Alternative: Click Tools->Greasemonkey->Manage User Scripts
    Alternative: Hold Alt and then press T, then G, then M
  9. Click Add.
  10. Click Ok.
  11. Click Close.
  12. Answer another question.
  13. Optional: Click View->Page View->No Style
    Alternative: Hold Alt and press V, then Y, then N
    This prevents the page from loading fancy make pretty things, so it can load more quickly.
  14. If you have FaviconizeTab: Right click on the freerice tab and select FaviconizeTab.

There. You should now be donating up a storm. You can simultaneously set up multiple tabs to do this, if you want, although there is a point at which the slowdown will not be worth it. This will depend on your computer and internet connection, so feel free to experiment.

The script will run as long as the tab is open regardless of whether that tab, or Firefox, is the focus, so you can leave it going all day.

I hope you enjoy helping the worlds hungry. Please contact me if you have any comments or questions.

Also, thanks to Samwise for showing me the freerice cheater script.