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Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago at 1:28 am. 3 comments
Firefox just blocked me from visiting Cool OSX Apps, a perfectly legit site.
The two buttons on the screen, neither of them allowed me to bypass the check and go to the site. LAME1.
Apparently Firefox 3 has a built-in safe-browsing feature, which queries the StopBadWare.org DB, and it is turned on by default. LAME2. For some ridiculous reason, Cool OSX Apps is blacklisted. LAME3.
I could not find the option to turn it off in the settings dialog. LAME4. To be fair, I didn’t look hard enough. Who needs a dialog, when there is “about:config”?
Type in “about:config” in the address bar. Search for safebrowsing, set the two bolded entries (see screenshot) to false.
While you are at it, turn off safebrowsing for google toolbar as well.
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Posted 3 years, 5 months ago at 4:05 pm. 6 comments
Instead of posting teeny-weeny entries on random nerdy bits, from now on, I will compile a list of things that I have learnt or done on computers. The list will be filtered against the boredom threshold and posted on a weekly basis.
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Posted 3 years, 6 months ago at 8:29 pm. 2 comments
Greasemonkey (link)
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (”user scripts”) to any web page to change its behaviour. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a web page’s style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a web page’s design or interaction.
I have used it to hide ads and add shortcut buttons (Mark Read and Delete) to GMail, add RSS buttons to Xanga blogs, and customize the behaviour of Livejournal user info’s. There are also lots of scripts that would work for all sites, such as auto reload page every N seconds, auto login, …etc. See the list here. It’s pretty amazing how much a simple javascript file can do to enhance your surfing experience.
