Chrome Extensions
June 1st, 2009
Update (7/10/09): I fixed the extensions to work with the new update to Chrome, find them here. Today I decided to convert some of my Greasemonkey Scripts to Chrome Extensions. I converted my Digg AdBlocker, Hacker News OnePage, and Hacker News Comments scripts. It turned out to be quite easy, I barely had to change anything to get them running as Chrome Extensions. I packaged them using the python script Google supplied, so they are easy for anyone to install. To use the extensions, you first need to be running the dev build of Google Chrome, you can get it…
Firefox 3 Download Day
June 12th, 2008
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 is out and the official release of the final version of Firefox 3 has been announced for June 17th. I have been running the various betas of FF3 for a while now and have been loving it. Much faster and much better memory management than FF2. I definitely recommend upgrading to FF3 when it is available. They want to set the world record for most software downloads in a 24 hour period, http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/, lets make it happen!
Manually refresh favicon.ico files in Firefox 3
June 12th, 2008 | 23 comments
Update (1/10/09): Try the new Favicon Picker 3 extension. When I originally wrote this post Favicon Picker for FF3 wasn’t available. If you need to refresh an old bookmark’s favicon, after installing the extension, try this: right click on bookmark -> properties -> Icon: “Reset”, then restart Firefox. When it restarts the new icon should appear. If that doesn’t work for you, you can try the complicated old school way below. Original (6/12/08): I have been working on some favicon.ico files for a couple different sites and I noticed that Firefox 3 has trouble refreshing the favicon image in your…
PicLens – Photo browser plugin for Firefox
May 16th, 2008 | 1 comment
If you’re on Flickr alot you’re familiar with what a pain it can be to browse through a photo set or stream. There is a great plugin for Firefox called PicLens which hooks into a lot of mainstream websites, such as Flickr, Google, Photobucket, Facebook etc. and makes browsing through lots of photos really easy and much quicker than the usual click and load routine. It can also handle YouTube videos as well. Video quality isn’t so hot, but its a really nice user experience. Check it out.