Visited links by default display in a different color than links that have not been visited. These different link colors act as visual indicators on websites, that make it clear on first sight whether you have opened a link on a page or not. This is especially useful on sites with dynamic listings, like Hacker [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

How do you handle links that you encounter while reading a document in Firefox? I usually open the links in new tabs, and continue to read the article I’m currently reading. Sometimes though I avoid this, read the article to the end and look at links that are of interest afterwards. Both options have disadvantages. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Have you ever posted a link, image, text or video on a website or forum only to receive the discouraging “it is old” reply? Maybe you have sworn to yourself that you will never again post already known contents on that site. And while you could make sure of that manually by running a series [...]

Categories: Online Services

Some websites display links – usually those entered by users – as plain text links instead of clickable HTML links. This may be by choice, for instance to avoid sending the site as a referrer to the linked website, or by accident if the scripts running on the website are configured improperly. Plain text links [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I recently stumbled upon the Firefox add-on InstaClick which maps the middle-click on links functionality of the browser to the right-click button instead. That way it is possible to open links in new tabs with a right-click, which is handy for users who work with laptop touchpads for instance or two button mice. Mapping that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Web of Trust is a community driven website reputation service. It is available as a look-up service on the company website, and as an automated software for various web browsers. The service is being used by millions to verify a website’s reputation before the site is visited. The browser extensions handle those checks automatically and [...]

Categories: Facebook, Security

Snap Links was one of the few Firefox add-ons that were installed all the time on my computer systems. It allowed Firefox users to draw a rectangle with the right mouse button on the screen to process all the links found in the rectangle at once. Options included to open the links in new tabs, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Every webmaster operating a blog will sooner or later notice that there are some websites out there that do nothing else than to copy contents of other websites and post them on their own. This is usually an automated process done with the use of a script and RSS news feeds. The script will check [...]

Categories: The Web, Tutorials Basic, Web Development

One of the biggest problems for many webmasters is the unauthorized publishing of their articles on third party websites. Many black hat webmasters take advantage of other webmaster’s work by publishing articles from those webmasters on their websites. Many times without the actual consent of the original author of the articles. But this is naturally [...]

Categories: The Web