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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 6th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Stop Internet Service Providers Redirecting DNS Errors

Chance is that your Internet Service Provider has implemented a system that will display a search page whenever a url gets mistyped. The technique behind those interceptions is simple. Most Internet users make use of the DNS servers of their Internet Service Providers. These DNS servers turn the names that the users type in into [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 5th, 2009
  • Comments: None

A Userscript For Better Userscripts.org Navigation

If you have been to userscripts.org before you might have noticed that the website holds an incredible amount of userscripts. You might have also noticed that it is extremely uncomfortable to browse and work with in general. Userscripts are JavaScript code snippets that change elements on a website while it is loaded in the web [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 5th, 2009
  • Comments: 17

Firefox 3.5.5

The Mozilla Firefox developers are currently distributing the latest official version of the Firefox 3.5.x branch to ftp servers around the globe. Firefox 3.5.5. will soon be announced officially at the official Mozilla website. Most Firefox users will get update notifications about the new version eventually with a high likelihood that the update notifications will [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 5th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Firefox Batch Image Downloader

Downloading multiple images that are displayed on websites can be a tedious and boring process. The standard procedure without tools and add-ons would be to right-click and select the save image option from the context menu to save each image individually. Download managers, plugins and add-ons aid the user in the process by offering ways [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Google Chrome To Get Automatic Userscript Support

Until now userscript support in the Google Chrome web browser was severely limited by the fact that the user had to copy the userscripts into a folder of the Chrome profile. Recent versions of the Chromium browser outline what users of the Google Chrome dev releases are soon going to experience as well. Google apparently [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Tab Preview Features In Firefox 3.6

Mozilla has integrated several new tab preview features in the recent release of Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 which were initially planned to be integrated into earlier release versions of Firefox 3. Even more problematic than the late implementation of this features is the fact that they are not enabled by default in the web browser. [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 26

Pin Tabs In Firefox

The Google Chrome browser provides access to a feature to pin tabs in the web browser by default. Pinned tabs will be moved to the left side of the tabbar where their tab will be changed to a smaller icon that is showing only the favicon of the website in question. The benefit of this [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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