Not everyone is seeing the new Google header bar yet that is being rolled out currently. The new header area moves the menu items that were previously linked directly on the top of the page to a new menu that is attached to the Google logo. When you load the Google homepage you will see [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

Twitter users do not have a lot of filtering options on the official site. While it is possible to switch from timeline view to mentions or retweets, there are not a whole lot of other filtering options available. Want to filter for media tweets or replies? Then you have to use a third party Twitter [...]

Categories: Browsing, Twitter

The photos that users upload to eBay are used to populate the search results and category listings. The eBay auction platform automatically displays thumbnail versions of the uploaded photos on search and category pages instead of the, often larger, versions of the photo uploaded by the eBay user. While that may not be a problem [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

Thousands of internet users have discovered the joys of Reddit, a web portal that provides users with access to images, underground news and the latest memes through a simple and seemingly pre-2000 interface. While the website has been flooded by new users in recent months, long-time users have been developing add-ons and accessories that make [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

One of the more annoying things on Facebook.com as of late is a relatively new feature called Facebook Questions. It basically allows anyone on Facebook to create polls. These polls then appear not only on your own Facebook wall, but also on the news feed of your friends, which can be pretty annoying when a [...]

Categories: Browsing, Facebook, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera

You may have heard that the New York Times will introduce its “paywall” on March 28. It basically limits visitors to 20 articles per month, after which a paywall message appears that asks them to sign up to become a subscriber to access the contents on the site. The message appears as an overlay on [...]

Categories: The Web

Most Firefox users remove add-ons and userscripts from within the web browser. I’m currently testing the latest builds of the upcoming Firefox 4 browser and noticed that it is not possible to uninstall Greasemonkey userscripts using the standard controls in the browser available. The Greasemonkey version available for Firefox is a development build, and it [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I recently switched from the stable Firefox 3.6x browser to the beta of Firefox 4, mainly because the beta appeared to be relatively stable at this point in development. Naturally, some of the add-ons that I used to work with were not compatible with Firefox 4, either because the developer did not update the add-on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Userscripts are great. Sure, you need to install Greasemonkey first if you want to run them on Firefox, but they are afterwards easier to install than extensions and have a lesser impact on the overall performance of the browser since they are executed on page loads only, and not resident in memory all the time [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox