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Archive for December, 2007

Editing XPI files to get rid of some version restrictions in Firefox-extensions

December 25th, 2007  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, notes, software

Not much time passed after I posted my previous entry about using Firefox 3 Beta 2 as my main browser until I realized that while I had browsed around for almost a day without much trouble, I hadn’t used Ajax heavy sites such as Facebook and Wordpress’ admin interface.
As soon as I started using [...]

One day of Firefox 3 Beta 2 (and CSLite)

December 24th, 2007  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, software

Firefox 3 Beta 2 has a few quirks and instabilities, but is generally much faster and more pleasant to use than 2.x (I’ve tried the official win32 release and various Linux compiles), so I hope I’ll be able to keep using it. A few non-critical extensions which I normally use, haven’t been updated for this [...]

“Google this site” as a Firefox quick search

December 24th, 2007  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, software

Today when I switched to Firefox 3 Beta 2, I realized it was time to get rid of Google’s toolbar. I haven’t used this rather heavy, bloated extension for anything else than swiftly performing searches of the current website (queries such as site:420.thrashbarg.net wtf), and I guessed that a much smarter way of doing this [...]

On not noticing new Feedburner features, acceptable feed outsourcing and the inner nature of the Tubes

December 3rd, 2007  |  by Thomas Nybergh  |  published in in English, internet, technology, web hosting

As I was setting up my sister’s website I had one of those “How on earth did I manage to miss this?” moments: namely, the use of custom domains has been supported in free Feedburner accounts since early July this year. This is yet another example of how the Google empire is taking over the [...]

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