porges » Firefox http://porg.es/blog Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:45:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Firefox extension: CustomizeGoogle http://porg.es/blog/firefox-extension-customizegoogle http://porg.es/blog/firefox-extension-customizegoogle#comments Sun, 20 May 2007 02:20:26 +0000 Porges http://porg.es/blog/firefox-extension-customizegoogle 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!

]]> http://porg.es/blog/firefox-extension-customizegoogle/feed 0 combobulate http://porg.es/blog/combobulate http://porg.es/blog/combobulate#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:54:50 +0000 Porges http://porges.name/blog/combobulate 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 your ad-blocking definitions. Ever. Oh, and did I mention Javascript injection?

The next step is to create a miniwiki that allows editing of the items, for true community-oriented ad-busting. Assistance in this regard would be appreciated. After that I will add support for multiple “overlays” of CSS/XPath/Javascript rules.

Oh, and the link: Combobulate. Cleaning up the web one site at a time.

Current example pages:

  • http://cnn.com
  • http://boingboing.net
  • http://deviantart.com
]]> http://porg.es/blog/combobulate/feed 7 Noogle, it’s Google Twogle! http://porg.es/blog/noogle-it%e2%80%99s-google-twogle http://porg.es/blog/noogle-it%e2%80%99s-google-twogle#comments Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:42:09 +0000 Porges http://porges.name/blog/noogle-it%e2%80%99s-google-twogle 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.
]]> http://porg.es/blog/noogle-it%e2%80%99s-google-twogle/feed 1 Firefox and IRIs http://porg.es/blog/firefox-and-iris http://porg.es/blog/firefox-and-iris#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2005 01:24:28 +0000 Porges http://porges.name/blog/firefox-and-iris 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 Info extension to protect you.

One thing I have been wondering about is how it’ll handle ambiguous situations involving percent signs. Guess I’ll figure out in the future!

]]> http://porg.es/blog/firefox-and-iris/feed 1 Making Firefox conform with the IRI standard http://porg.es/blog/making-firefox-conform-with-the-iri-standard http://porg.es/blog/making-firefox-conform-with-the-iri-standard#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2005 03:29:17 +0000 Porges http://porges.name/blog/making-firefox-conform-with-the-iri-standard According to IRI testcases such as this one by Martin Dürst, characters in IRIs should be encoded using UTF-8 regardless of the source encoding of the page.

Load up about:config, search for “network.standard-url.encode-utf8″, and change it to true.

]]> http://porg.es/blog/making-firefox-conform-with-the-iri-standard/feed 1 Firefox customizations http://porg.es/blog/firefox-customizations http://porg.es/blog/firefox-customizations#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:11:07 +0000 Porges http://porges.name/blog/firefox-customizations I’ve moved the “Useful Firefox Plugins” post to a seperate page which I can keep updated. You can access it through the link at the top of the page.

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