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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 17th, 2009
  • Comments: 11

Automatically Reload Websites With Auto F5

It happens sometimes that you are on a website waiting for something to happen, for example a download that should be available on that day or a registration form for a new web service. And then there are times where you want to reload a page because the contents change all the time. This can [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 25th, 2009
  • Comments: None

Flickr AllSizes Userscript

Most photos that are uploaded to Flickr are available in various sizes at the photo hosting service ranging from the original photo resolution down to medium, small and thumbnail copies of that photo. Users who upload photos can make the decision to share all available sizes of the photo with other Flickr users or only [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

PBTweet Enhances Twitter Experience

PBTweet is a bookmarklet and userscript that enhances several aspects of Twitter by changing or adding new functions to the popular social network. Before we start looking at the features a word about compatibility. The bookmarklet works with most Webkit based web browsers including Safari and Google Chrome. The userscripts are compatible with Greasemonkey [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 25th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Google Image Relinker

Google Image Search is a very comprehensive image search engine. It basically works the same way as the standard Google search with the difference that image thumbnails are displayed as results on the results pages. Additional information like the domain name the image was posted on or the size of the image are displayed on [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 17th, 2009
  • Comments: None

Two Firefox Add-Ons That Help You Extend The Web Browser

Users of the Firefox web browser have thousands of add-ons and scripts at their disposal that they can use to extend the functionality of the web browser. This large amount makes it impossible for most users to know all of the add-ons out there which in turn can mean that they miss the opportunity of [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 13th, 2009
  • Comments: 10

FireFox Speed Up Script

Firefox Speed Up Script is a script for Greasemonkey that combines several tweaks to Firefox core configuration settings with site specific optimizations and various other improvements including blocking of known advertising scripts. The Greasemonkey extension for the Firefox web browser is required to use the Speed Up Script which will automatically become active after installation. [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 14th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Disable Text Field Auto Focus

We would like to show how to disable the auto focus on text fields of selected websites to complete the series of posts that deal with auto focusing on text fields once the website opens in the web browser. If you open the Google Search homepage by default you notice that the cursor will automatically [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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