PriceDrop is a Firefox extension which allows you to track product prices at Amazon shops , and get notifications whenever they drop. It will also help you get a refund from Amazon.com if a product you’ve already bought becomes cheaper.
This is a site that will tell you if the price of an item you bought drops. It’s great for getting that 30 day Amazon refund. Amazon will give you the difference if an item you bought drops in price within 30 days of your purchase.
Antibacterial soaps show no health benefits over plain soaps and, in fact, may render some common antibiotics less effective, says a University of Michigan public health professor.
In a bid to improve browser security, both within Firefox and among competing browsers, the Mozilla Foundation Thursday announced several open-source security testing tools, in addition to several security enhancements coming with Firefox 3, scheduled for
Opera Software found and patched what it’s calling a “highly severe” bug in its flagship browser, using a security tool released by its competitor, Mozilla.
Australian scientists have created a box that changes the television with the wave of a hand. The controller’s built-in camera can recognise seven simple hand gestures and work with up to eight different gadgets around the home.
I found this just as I heard of Vizio for the first time. I found their plasma and LCD televisions in my local Costco. They are able to charge less for their tvs because they only sell to large warehouses.
Parakey, the startup from Firefox whizkid Blake Ross, has been bought by Facebook. They were working on an application to enable people to easily do everything they need on a computer from the browser. I worry that they won’t be releasing it now.
Word is that Michal Zalewski posted about 4 vulnerabilities on the Full Disclosure mailing list. Two are for Firefox, one is for IE 6 & 7, and one is exclusive to IE 6. The thing I love is that they require Javascript to run, and ever since a few months ago I have been using the NoScript Firefox extension to block sites from executing Javascript unless I specifically allow them. It’s a great way to stop these attacks. The only nuisance is having to allow scripts to run on certain sites you visit, but once you do it for each site you don’t have to do it again. And the alternative of not being protected is even worse and makes the extra effort worthwhile.
Mozilla is already discussing the Firefox bugs in their bugzilla tracking system. I wonder how long it will take for Firefox to fix these. I give it less than a week.
Today’s shirt is from WTSR 91.3, the TCNJ campus radio station. It’s mostly student run and for the past few years I’ve been a DJ there with a show at any given time. Next semester I won’t be having a show on WTSR. I have three of these shrits so I can’t just stop wearing them. Plus I like the shirts; they make me feel cool. I will be running an internet-only podcast at RadioFirefox.com starting in January, and sitting in on the shows of friends from time-to-time.
It appears that the latest update to Firefox has solved a serious bug I often ran into. The browser would frequently crash if you try to switch tabs while loading Gmail. According to Mihai, the issue appears to now be fixed in version 1.5.0.2. Bug 265740 describes the problem and shows it as being resolved. Firefox 1.5.0.2 also fixed several other crash bugs.
So far I haven’t noticed any more crashes, but I will let you know if I do. Have you been using the update, and do you still experience crashes with Gmail?
For the past few weeks I have been using Performancing for Firefox to update Shiwej.com. I have to say that it is one of the most easy to use and well-designed extensions I have used. You can add multiple blogs in the system, and you can easily craft your posts as you view multiple websites. I have it setup to take up half of the browser screen so I have plenty of space to craft my posts. I have found it to work so well for Shiwej that I am now using it to manage my other blogs, including AppleWatch. It works especially well when combined with the developer release of the Spellbound spellchecking extension.
Have you ever wanted to copy multiple lines from a website, but had to copy them each individually? Fret no more. There is a setting in Firefox’s about:config that lets you define how many lines you will paste in Firefox after having selected text. This is useful when copying a URL that is displayed on more than one line.
editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines defaults to 1 line. You can double click the entry and change it to a number of your choosing. I find that setting it to 3 usually does the trick for me.
1) Enter about:config in the Location Bar to display the list of user preferences.
2) Find editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines and double click it.
3) Enter the number of lines you would like the paste function to concatenate in Firefox.
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The opinions expressed here are my personal opinions. They are not endorsed by any party and no party has anything to do with them. But I do love to par-tay!
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