Search engines like Google Search use a page’s loading time as a signal when they compute that page’s ranking in their search engine results. Webmasters have a lot to tweak, from the server backbone to the scripts they use and embed, and the images and media they post; Everything has an impact on the page [...]

Categories: Web Development

Good news for all Firefox users, especially those running the latest Nightly builds of Firefox 9 or those planning to upgrade to the new version of the web browser once it becomes available in other Firefox release channels. Mozilla developer Brian Hackett worked on a new feature called type inference for over a year. You [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Webmasters have really no choice but to add the Google+ button and other social networking buttons to their websites. Why? Because social signals will grow in importance in the coming years. These buttons can also be convenient for site visitors who would like to share a specific article or the whole website that they just [...]

Categories: Google, Web Development

I do not have a problem opening websites without JavaScript or plugins enabled in Firefox with the excellent NoScript add-on running. In fact, NoScript blocks those scripts on all pages by default. There is not an equivalent of NoScript for Google Chrome, even NotScript, which comes closest to the functionality does not offer the features [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

After I set up RGBA support in Ubuntu (see my article “Enable RGBA support in Ubuntu“), I sat about to find applications that could replace non-GTK+ applications currently in use. Replacing the web browser proved to be a challenge. And although it’s not able to stand alone as a full blown replacement for my favorite, [...]

Categories: Advice, Browsing, Desktop Manager, ghacks, Linux, Open Source

Veteran users of the Thunderbird email client might remember that JavaScript was supported in version 2. Users who have recently upgraded to version 3 of Thunderbird might also have noted that JavaScript is no longer executed by the software, at least in email contexts. So what’s the deal with JavaScript and Thunderbird? The Thunderbird developers [...]

Categories: Email

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Many websites on the Internet use pagination. This includes all major search engines like Google Search or Bing, blogs like Ghacks or websites that provide access to media like Youtube. Pagination is used to limit the time it takes to load a website and to well arrange it for the visitor. The main problem with [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera

It has been only a few days ago that the Mozilla Firefox team released an update for Firefox 3.5 to Firefox 3.5.1 that would close a recently disclosed critical security vulnerability that allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code on the attacked computer system. Earlier today another Firefox vulnerability was disclosed to the public that affects [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox