Tag Archives: firefox

How to make Chrome bearable in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

September 25, 2009

So, there I was, watching Firefox 3 thrash my CPU and IO, when I decided that I needed a replacement. Something elegant, fast, preferably threaded… oh! Google Chrome! So, I finally found a link to download the unstable version of the browser based on the latest revisions, of which I got version 4.0.213.1-r27053. Now, I’ve used Chrome in Linux before, and a few things about Firefox kept me hooked. Today, though, I was on a mission to change all that. [...]

Implementing Mozilla’s Content Security Policy

June 30, 2009

I recently discovered this page, which describes Mozilla’s solution for prevention of XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) available as a Firefox Extension. Here’s the HTTP response from my site: hank@tardis:~$ wget -S http://www.ralree.com –2009-06-30 09:52:13– http://www.ralree.com/ Resolving www.ralree.com… 74.54.115.108 Connecting to www.ralree.com|74.54.115.108|:80… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:49:54 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.7a Phusion_Passenger/2.1.3 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.8 X-Pingback: http://www.ralree.com/newblog/xmlrpc.php Last-Modified: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:49:21 GMT X-Content-Security-Policy: allow self; img-src [...]

Greasemonkey Script to get Jabber Room for Google Group Chat

March 15, 2009

So, today I was invited to Google Group chat for the first time. This would be really cool on a terminal that’s not equipped with an IM client, since it’s all done through the web with flash and magic. But, since I don’t like having 2 IM clients running at the same time (Pidgin and the Flash one from Google), I decided I needed to rip out the Jabber Group Chat Room name from the invite page. I got some [...]

Firefox Minefield Beta is Awesome

October 29, 2008

So, I tried Firefox Minefield Beta today at the suggestion of Slashdot, and I like it. It’s really speedy compared to even the previous 3.0 versions. Text shadows now work, which is really cool. SunSpider Benchmark Results

Flash 10 for Linux Fixes Landmark Bug

July 4, 2008

The new July 2nd version of Flash Player 10 for Linux finally fixes the HTML overlay bug that we’ve been seeing for years. You can now see things on top of the flash elements on the page, like so: Get it now! Update After trying it with YouTube and TheSixtyOne, and seeing some lame bugs, I decided to go back to Flash 9 and face the music on overlays.

Open Source Flash Players

May 26, 2008

I decided after reading this article, I decided to try out SWFDec instead of Adobe Flash Player. I shied away from Gnash early on since it didn’t support many newer features of Flash, and it didn’t work with YouTube. But, apparently, SWFDec works with YouTube (I just tried it), and according to the article above, my browser may use less resources now. We’ll see. Update Well, it turns out it crashes on my TheSixtyOne player on the right! Time to [...]

Greasemonkey for Firefox 3 Beta 2

January 9, 2008

I got tired of not having my greasy friend around, so I changed the rdf file to work for all versions of Firefox 3. Here’s the result: Greasemonkey 0.7.20070607.0 for Firefox 3

Fun with browser error pages

October 26, 2007

So, I though it would be interesting to mimic browser behavior with error pages. I decided I needed to make a page that looked exactly like the Firefox Server-not-found page. I managed to copy the source using Firebug, and I extracted the css out of the jar files on my system. Anyway, I ended up with some source for IE and some source for Firefox. Test this in IE and Firefox I left little invisible links in each one (search [...]

Citibank Greasemonkey Plugin for Firefox/Linux

September 6, 2007

So Citibank is lame – they don’t think that Firefox in Linux is a supported browser, but seem to believe that it is under Windows and OSX. Well, good thing we have Greasemonkey around. // ==UserScript== // @name Citibank Continue // @namespace http://www.ralree.info // @description Makes the Citibank browser warning page go away // @include https://web.da-us.citibank.com/cgi-bin/citifi/portal/l/l.do // ==/UserScript== document.getElementsByTagName(‘input’)[0].click; Get it here. As you can see above, it does nothing dangerous. Just clicks the damn button for you so you [...]

Dayne and I as foxes.

July 27, 2007

Well, we went to the firefox party: It was pretty cool – we got some swag and stuffs.

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