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When http:://Feedly.com doesn’t start with any more: start it through https://Feedly.com (via: @feedly your news. delivered.)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/16

Recently when starting Feedly through http://feedly.com, I got this message in Chrome on my Retina MacBook Pro:

Is feedly blocked?

Feedly is not able to load. It is probably because one of your extensions is blocking it. If you run Adblock, HTTPSEverywhere, Awesome screenshot etc.. please make sure that feedly.com is white listed.

Ask a question

I paused AdBlock: same thing. I don’t use HTTPSEverywhere or the other tools mentioned.

Solution: start using https://feedly.com. Since I prefer https anyway, I can live with that (: Read the rest of this entry »

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Speedup Youtube Playback: Watch Lectures In Half The Time with YouTube’s HTML5 Player

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/13

I wish I had kept an eye on it after it was announced (which was 3.5 years ago, but not very stable): The Youtube HTML5 viewer trial.

It has come a long way since then. Full screen it is still not as good as the official one, but the main attraction introduced since is: configurable playback speed!

Yes, you can choose playback at 25%, 50%, 100%, 150% or 200% of the original speed. Ideal for lectures or watching replays of conference sessions.

Quote from the life hacker post LifeHacker on this:

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Posted in Apple, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Opera, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »

Google Chromecast Review – The race is on to wirelessly throw video to your TV – Scott Hanselman

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/23

Google Chromecast Review – The race is on to wirelessly throw video to your TV – Scott Hanselman.

Posted in Chrome, Chrome, Google, LifeHacker, Power User, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

Google Chrome funny error message: trueAre you sure you want to leave this page?

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/21

Got a nice error message from Google Chrome today and wonder what the “true” means (:

true

The text is this:

[Confirm Navigation]

true

Are you sure you want to leave this page?

[Leave this Page]    [Stay on this page]

You can use Ctrl-C to copy, then you get the text below:

trueAre you sure you want to leave this page

That means it is not a standard Windows MessageBox, as pressing Ctrl-C there would copy the title and buttons as well.

–jeroen

via: 20130221-funny-google-chrome-error-message-true–Are-you-sure-you-want-to-leave-this-page | Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

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Gif Stopper – Chrome Web Store

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/09

Quote:

Gif Stopper will stop animated gif images with using the escape key.

We all love animated gifs but some times they are too distracting, that’s with Gif Stopper comes in. Hit the escape key and the image stops. Most browsers have this build-in and now Google Chrome has it also.

Most importantly: it WORKS with Google+ Plus!!

–jeroen

via: Gif Stopper – Chrome Web Store.

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Extensions to force HTTPS in your browser

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/07/22

About 9 months ago I posted about HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation hoping someone would port the HTTPS Everywhere extension for Firefox to force HTTPS in other browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer et cetera.

In the mean time, I found out about HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security), which is supported by FireFox 4, and Chrome 12.

Also in the mean time I found about a few HTTPS enforcer extensions for other browsers.

For instance, there are two similar Google Chrome Extensions to HTTPS Everywhere:

Internet Explorer does not have such an extension.

Opera has the Security Enhancer extension.

Next to HTTPS Everywhere, there are the ForceHTTPS and NoScript extension for FireFox (NoScript also supports HSTS).
FireFox 4 supports HSTS out of the box.

So now you have a choice!

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Power User, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

Chrome 12 brought back Issue 47714 – chromium – maximize bug while loading webpage on windows 7 – An open-source browser project to help move the web forward. – Google Project Hosting

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/27

Regression tests are useful, especially before release.

Clearly someone forgot to regression test the Issue 47714 – chromium – maximize bug while loading webpage on windows 7, as after a while of absence, Chrome 12 reintroduced this issue (it is present in all versions of Chrome 12 I tested, until at least 12.0.742.100).

Workarounds:

  1. Maximize the window, then enter a URL
  2. Wait for Chrome to fully load the URL, then maximize.

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7 | Leave a Comment »

Exporting Google Chrome cookies for wget usage: cookie.txt export – Google Chrome extension gallery

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/05/30

When using wget for downloading from the command-line, sometimes you need cookies in netscape file format.

There is a Chrome cookie.txt export extension that makes exporting your cookies in that format easy.

It opens a window that contains the cookies relevant to the domain of the currently opened web-page. You copy/paste your cookies in format like this:

# Cookies for domains related to wordpress.com.
# This content may be pasted into a cookies.txt file and used by wget
# Example: wget -x --load-cookies cookies.txt https://wiert.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=5767&action=edit
#
en.forums.wordpress.com FALSE / FALSE 1304919940 TESTCOOKIE home
en.support.wordpress.com FALSE / FALSE 1304920249 TESTCOOKIE home
wiert.wordpress.com FALSE / FALSE 1304920561 TESTCOOKIE home
en.wordpress.com FALSE / FALSE 1304920572 TESTCOOKIE home

It even includes the wget command-line example for loading the cookies using the –load-cookies option :)

–jeroen

via: cookie.txt export – Google Chrome extension gallery.

Posted in *nix, Chrome, Power User, Web Browsers, wget | 3 Comments »

Chrome “Open frame in new tab” replacement: Open Frame/This Frame extensions

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/05/16

New versions sometimes means the loss of features.

Starting with Google Chrome 10, the “Open frame in new tab” option in the context menu was removed (“Reload frame”, “View frame info” and “View frame source” are still there though).

The removal has been reported as a bug by Michael Schramm on December 10, 2010, but no action from the Chromium nor Chrome teams yet.

But shortly after the removal, two Chrome extensions appeared:

Though they both work very well, I like the second one more because it has slightly more options (it is based on the first one).

Note that when you install these extensions, you have to reload a tab when you want to use the new functionality offered by the extension on that tab.

–jeroen

via: Open Frame – Google Chrome extension gallery.

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Google Chrome about:about – main entrance to the “geek” pages

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/21

Google Chrome as a quite extensive collection of about: pages not limited to the empty about:blank and the simple about: info page.

Some of them enable you to view and/or set some geeky stuff.

about:about is the best entrance: it has a list of most of the available about: pages.
An alternative is chrome://about/about/

There are a few more, and some site, including lifehacker published has a nice list in 2008, but since then some of them moved to the regular configuration dialogs.

So here is what still works and what doesn’t (as of Chrome 8.0; 9.0 will change a bit):

Doesn’t work:

Works, but not in the about:about list:

ChromeAccess is an extension plugin that gives you quick access to these pages too.
(Speaking of extensions, there is a FireBug Lite extension for Chrome, and a nice list of popular Chrome extensions)

ChromeFans shows there is also a view-cache: and view-source: prefix.

Finally Zhacks has a list with a few chrome:// pages that are also interesting:

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Power User, Web Browsers | 1 Comment »

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