User Script Revives GitHub's Old Download Tab

About three weeks ago GitHub removed a bunch of links to a repository's 'downloads' section replacing them with one big downloads button, which is only available to you on some pages, and instead of taking you directly to the 'downloads' page/section you now get a AJAXy popup that only displays some of the available downloads to you and provides a link to the 'downloads' section.

In my expert opinion this button sucks. It's hard to remember which pages it's available on, except for the source page so I always go there to find it, then I have to wait for a popup that I don't want to see inorder to get the link that I'm after.. another option is to correct the url in the location bar, which is the route I was taking before I finally decided to write a user script to bring the old tab back.

Sceenshots

This is what the old 'Downloads' tab looked like:

GitHub's old 'Downloads' tab

This is what their new button looks like:

GitHub's new 'Downloads' button

User Script

Find this user script at userscripts.org here.

I understand that they had too many links to the 'downloads' section before, but the only one I ever used was the 'downloads' tab, and it's the only one that I find myself wanting now that the old links have all been replaced with the big awful button. So I decided to write a user script to bring back the 'downloads' tab and remove the new button, here it is:

Gist 644434 embed above

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