Firefox 3 has an annoying new URL bar that takes up about 75px in screen real estate for each auto-completed URL. It’s referred to as richResults in about:config. In the previous beta releases you were able to manually add a preference to remove this feature. As of firefox 3 beta 4 (or maybe beta 3, i didn’t install that… URL Bar">Read more »
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Thoughts on Online Privacy & How to Protect Yourself [OR How Facebook Can Save Your Identity]
The following is an excerpt of an email I wrote in response to this article Facebook can ruin your life. And so can MySpace, Bebo A lot of the current batch of social networks have very poorly designed privacy controls. On facebook for instance, it’s very hard to tell which of your contacts have access to… OR How Facebook Can Save Your Identity]">Read more »
How To Ignore All Facebook Requests
Now that I have over 100 friends on Facebook, I’ve started to get inundated with ridiculous application requests. I was about ready to send some angry Facebook emails to so called friends. Then I found this greasemonkey script to Ignore ALL Application Requests. As you can see from this spiffy screenshot the script creates a little button on the… Read more »
Firefox 3.0, How To Make Old Extensions Work
Firefox 3.0 beta 1 is out. As with previous releases of Firefox, the new version number breaks your extensions. Here’s how to fix them. Open about:config (don’t mind the new roadblock) Right-Click the list and create a new boolean ‘extensions.checkCompatibility’, set it to false Restart Firefox Update: This does not appear to work on the beta 4 release.
.htaccess Mobile Browser Redirect
Checkout the latest version of the ruleset first. I just finished building out a simple little mobile site for hiphopdx.com. When I asked Google the best way to detect mobile browsers with PHP, it led to me this PHP code by Andy Moore. After a few minutes of contemplating the best way to include the code in the existing… Read more »