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Apr/23

Disable FireFox Download Panel Automatically Opening

Filed Under Software at 3rd April 2023 0:01 by

A change was made to FireFox where if you download a file, the download box opens and steals focus from the website. To disable this, go to about:config and search for browser.download.alwaysOpenPanel and set it to false by double clicking … Continue reading →

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Nov/14

Enable Backspace In Firefox On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Web Browser at 24th November 2014 0:01 by

Not sure why but the backspace keyboard short is disabled in Ubuntu. To enable it: type about:config into the address bar. Accept the warning. Find the key browser.backspace_action and change the value to 0. Enable Backspace In Firefox In Ubuntu … Continue reading →

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Nov/14

Firefox Interupts localhost To www.localhost.com

Filed Under Software at 3rd November 2014 0:01 by

Firefox tries to be too clever and when the address doesn’t work, it tries to connect to sites on common patterns like adding .com or www. to the address in case the user accidentally forgot to put them in. For … Continue reading →

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Jul/14

Reduce SSD Wear By Moving Firefox Cache To RAM Disk

Filed Under Web Browser, Windows at 7th July 2014 0:01 by

Overview It’s known that SSD have limited amount of read / writes similar to USB memory sticks. Drives usually come over provisioned so there are plenty of spare space to replace the bad sectors but it’s inevitable it will need … Continue reading →

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May/14

KeePass On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux, Software at 19th May 2014 0:01 by

Overview I use KeePass as my password manager which works very well on Windows. Running it on Linux is not as easy but it has gotten better over the years for example in 14.04. Integrating it into browsers on the … Continue reading →

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Sep/13

Caret Browsing In Firefox

Filed Under Web Browser at 2nd September 2013 0:01 by

I noticed on my web pages a blinking iron (caret) on the page even when it’s not in a text/area box. It was like using a word processor but on a webpage. It turns out Firefox calls this Caret Browsing … Continue reading →

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Nov/11

KeePass Mini Review

Filed Under Security, Software at 1st November 2011 0:01 by

Overview Software and services for password manager have been around for a long time. I was skeptical about using such products because I thought it was leaving “all your eggs in one basket”. Loose your key file and / or … Continue reading →

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Jul/11

WordPress – Your Browser Is Out Of Date

Filed Under WordPress at 12th July 2011 22:30 by

Never knew it was WordPress’s job to keep your browser up to date: