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The Mozilla BlogSo strange to see a tech company put energy into consumer privacy but I’ll take it.
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github.comI keep trying to switch to Firefox because it's not managed by an advertising company. It has been hard breaking the Chrome habit. But this browser theme for Firefox makes it look exactly like Chrome. I wasn't happy with the compact design for tabs and the bookmarks bar in Firefox. Now I have no excuse. I will switch.
Update: A trick that has helped me remember I want to switch is setting my Chrome homepage to the Firefox download page.
Update: A trick that has helped me remember I want to switch is setting my Chrome homepage to the Firefox download page.
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"On July 14th, 1999, a programmer named Matthew Haughey made the first post on a blog he'd set up for himself and a few friends in an attempt to collect interesting links." Nice profile of MetaFilter! [via MetaTalk]
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Nice collection of icons for web applications. Click Preview to see them all. [via glass]
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It'd be interesting to see how much performance you'd gain moving to HTML 5. Maybe I'll try it with one of my personal sites. [via anil]
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"Is there a formula--some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation--for a good life?" [via peterme]
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This looks like a nice performance plugin for IE8 by the folks at MySpace. (That sentence doesn't sound right.)
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Firefox 3.5 seems great, but that giant [+] to open a new tab isn't necessary. This extension will remove it.
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Nice summary of Fuelly with a list of things to do once you sign up. I bet interest increases directly with gas prices.
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Google's take on YSlow--Yahoo's excellent website performance analyzer. Not as polished as YSlow, but looks promising and includes some analysis that YSlow doesn't cover such as CSS efficiency and image compression.
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YSlow has a nice new design, and a new option for "Small Site or Blog" that doesn't grade based on clustered server settings.
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"LeechBlock is a simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. All you need to do is specify which sites to block and when to block them." I need this! This works much better than my bookmark hack.
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Here's another way to hide Google's awful SearchWiki images with Adblock Plus.
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This Greasemonkey script will hide the new Google SearchWiki buttons. Strange that Google doesn't offer a way to opt-out of this feature.
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Nice JavaScript date picker.
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Scandal is our growth industry.
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Is there anything better than engravings of alchemists' laboratories?
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"...future versions of Firefox plan on supporting the new W3C Geolocation Specification, which adds the native ability for Web sites to request, and you to optionally grant access to, your location." [via veen]
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Firefox 3 has built-in color profile support, but it's not enabled by default. [via nelson]
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Turn any Greasemonkey script into a full-on Firefox extension (Add-On). [via Spun]
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Doug Kaye's latest venture.
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Jon Udell on public-service podcasting. Excellent ideas here. "This isn't podcasting to build audiences and 'monetize' downloads. It's podcasting to expand access to public discussion."
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Firefox Add-on lets you click and drag any form field to resize. (Unfortunately, it doesn't remember your field size preference.)
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Open source remote desktop client for Windows RDC on Mac OS X. Handy if you need to manage Windows servers from Mac. I hear it's more stable than the official Microsoft RDC client for Macs.