Firefox extension: CustomizeGoogle

Uncategorized 20 May 2007 | 0 Comments

The latest version of CustomizeGoogle is great. I particularly recommend the (currently ‘in beta’) “stream search results” feature. When you would normally reach the bottom of a page in Google, the extension appends the next page onto the bottom, so you’ll never have to click “next” again!

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combobulate

Default 17 October 2005 | 7 Comments

Following the example set by the excellent hoodwink’d, here is a GreaseMonkey script. It grabs customized CSS/XPath expressions for the current page you’re on (currently only from my server, but you can edit that if you like). What does this mean? Ad-blocking via CSS and XPath on a per-domain basis, with no need to update [...]

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Noogle, it’s Google Twogle!

Default 29 September 2005 | 1 Comment

Just like some other extensions but with less sneaky Amazon linkage, Noogle currently does the following: Adds thumbnails. Adds images and info from Amazon products. Removes the ads.

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Firefox and IRIs

Uncategorized 12 April 2005 | 1 Comment

Continuing on my previous post on making Firefox conform to the IRI standard, here’s how to make your address bar look much nicer when visiting IRIs. Load up about:config, and change these values to: network.standard-url.escape-utf8 false network.IDN_show_punycode false Of course, this will leave you more vulnerable to domain-spoofing attacks, so I recommend using the IDN [...]

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