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Reminder to self: pointers to recovering “The Great Suspender” suspended URLs (after in 2021 Google booted it from Chrome for being malware)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/14

I was a long term user of “The Great Suspender”. It was a cool little Chrome Extension that would auto-suspend Chrome tabs that had not been used for a while and resume them when the tab did get accessed again thereby greatly reducing the horrible Chrome CPU and memory footprints.

During my year+ long treatment against metastasised rectum cancer I had suspended or hibernated most of my physical and virtual machines. So there was not just the surprised during the recovery of those that The Great Suspender had been kicked of the Chrome extensions, but also the problem of getting all the suspended tabs back of machines that eventually would be awoken out of sleep: I keep tabs open on stuff that I was working on or investigating for future blog posts, so these somehow could be important.

For now, I am not using anything as a replacement just to experience how well Chrome has evolved to suspend inactive tabs itself.

Now Chrome seems to do this well, as this post is based on an old VM that I have now unsuspended which had [Wayback/Archive] “the great suspender” “malware” – Google Search and the below links open in a mid-February 2021 state but not all archived in the Wayback Machine or Archive.is (some I did archived in February-May 2021).

The links are about why it got removed, how to recover lost suspended tabs and a possible alternative in case current Chrome suspend behaviour is not good enough.

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Chrome, Development, Google, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Google: inactive account policies

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/28

Reminder to self to yearly check all my Google accounts because of [Wayback/Archive] Updating our inactive account policies

we are updating our inactivity policy for Google Accounts to 2 years across our products. Starting later this year, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents – including content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos.
The policy only applies to personal Google Accounts, and will not affect accounts for organizations like schools or businesses. This update aligns our policy with industry standards around retention and account deletion and also limits the amount of time Google retains your unused personal information.
We are going to roll this out slowly and carefully, with plenty of notice:
  • While the policy takes effect today, it will not immediately impact users with an inactive account — the earliest we will begin deleting accounts is December 2023.
  • We will take a phased approach, starting with accounts that were created and never used again.
  • Before deleting an account, we will send multiple notifications over the months leading up to deletion, to both the account email address and the recovery email (if one has been provided).

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Posted in Google, GoogleDrive, Power User, SocialMedia, YouTube | Leave a Comment »

javascript – Chrome debugging – break on next click event – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/23

I wish I had known this ages ago: [Wayback/Archive] javascript – Chrome debugging – break on next click event – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] D.R. for asking and [Wayback/Archive] Konrad Dzwinel for answering):

What you are looking for are [Wayback/Archive] ‘Event Listener Breakpoints‘ on the Sources tab. These breakpoints are triggered whenever any event listener, that listens for chosen event, is fired. You will find them in the Sources tab. In your case, expand ‘Mouse’ category and choose ‘Click’.

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Posted in Chrome, Chrome, Development, Google, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

How to Switch to a 24 Hour Clock in Google Calendar – Live2Tech

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/14

Apparently you have to do this once for a Google account, as it is on the account level, not the web-browser level.

The odd thing was that somehow despite setting the country to The Netherlands when setting up the account, these were the settings in Google Calendar

  • Language: English (UK)‎
  • Country: Netherlands (Nederland)
  • Date format: 12/31/2021
  • Time format: 1:00pm

After the steps from [Wayback] How to Switch to a 24 Hour Clock in Google Calendar – Live2Tech, the settings now are these:

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Posted in Development, Google, GoogleCalendar, internatiolanization (i18n) and localization (l10), Power User | Leave a Comment »

Figured out why on fresh Chrome installs, iframe with embedded Google Calendar won’t work and show `(blocked:other)` in the Network Tab of Chrome Developer Tools

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/09

Wow, what a long title!

What happened is that I have a few dashboards for people that include various embedded Google Calendar widgets in <iframe>s.

These won’t show on fresh installs of Google Chrome that have the particular user signed on in the Chrome Settings so that settings will be synchronised, right?

Right?!

Wrong!!

Not all Chrome settings will be synchronised by Chrome. Things like [Wayback/Archive] “On startup” (with the pages shown after Chrome startup) and wich installed extensions are synchronised including the visibility of their icons. But the settings of the extensions themselves will not.

This means that odd things happen, for instance extensions like [Wayback/Archive] Privacy Badger and [Wayback/Archive] uBlock Origin being installed, but both reverting to their default settings.

That in turn leads to hard to see problems, in this case the embedded Google Calendar <iframe>s failing.

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Bimostitch Panorama Stitcher – Android-apps op Google Play

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/13

Often, Google Photos does not auto-stitch a series of photos.

On Android, you can use this app in stead: [Wayback] Bimostitch Panorama Stitcher – Android-apps op Google Play

I stitched the panorama photo in the Tweet below with it [Wayback/Archive].

You can find it back in this Google Photo’s album: [Wayback/Archive] photos.app.goo.gl/XgovxiK2CKJzdH4u7

Via [Wayback/Archive] Force panorama creation on Google Photos – Google Photos Community.

--jeroen

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How to disable Chrome’s new targeted ad tracking: visit chrome://settings/adPrivacy

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/06

Go to chrome://settings/adPrivacy and disable all to make it look like this:

[Wayback/Archive] 266577344-cd2613d0-f97d-46e1-bfbb-9d8c432c40c8.png (656×183)

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Email Handling and vBulletin Cloud – vBulletin Community Forum

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/25

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Email Handling and vBulletin Cloud – vBulletin Community Forum.

  • Asking your end users to white list your email address and the Sendgrid IP (167.89.58.99) can help alleviate the issues.

I didn’t know the above but bumped into an issue because I didn’t know a supplier had moved to vBulletin Cloud, my account password stopped being accepted and my account password reset messages would not arrive.

So I wrote this as part of a mail to sort this out, and it was confirmed to be correct:

Then I re-checked a few connection refusals that appeared close to the password reset tries. Not sure if this a pattern, but a few of them had this:
2022-02-20T19:41:42.999415+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: NOQUEUE: connect from o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net [167.89.58.99]
2022-02-20T19:41:43.015958+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: NOQUEUE: dns 99.58.89.167.bl.spamcop.net. => 127.0.0.2
2022-02-20T19:41:43.016442+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net, arg2=127.0.0.2, relay=o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net [167.89.58.99], reject=553 5.3.0 Spam blocked see: http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?167.89.58.99
2022-02-20T19:42:29.527789+01:00 snap sendmail[23814]: 21KIeTfo023814: engine10.uptimerobot.com [69.162.124.231] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
From the linked page I got to https://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=blcheck&ip=167.89.58.99 indicating

167.89.58.99 listed in bl.spamcop.net (127.0.0.2)

If there are no reports of ongoing objectionable email from this system it will be delisted automatically in approximately 13 hours.

Causes of listing
  • System has sent mail to SpamCop spam traps in the past week (spam traps are secret, no reports or evidence are provided by SpamCop)

Express-delisting is not available

Listing History

In the past 44.4 days, it has been listed 12 times for a total of 13.3 days

Can you check if the forum software uses sendgrid?

The confirmation linked to the first post in this blog entry on how to whitelist the SendGrid outgoing IP-address.

One thing I wonder: why does SendGrid use a single outgoing IP-address? If it gets blacklisted, many of their clients have problems.

Anyway: before adding the entry to my whitelist, the problem had resolved itself, and the blacklist entries were done:

Related: [Wayback/Archive] Forum Move – Scooter Forums

We’ve moved our forums to vBulletin Cloud.

New forum URL: https://forum.scootersoftware.com/

Links to the old forum will be redirected to the new URL.

If you notice any problems after the move, please let us know.

[Wayback/Archive] Forums – Scooter Forums

–jeroen

Posted in Communications Development, Development, eMail, GMail, Google, Internet protocol suite, Power User, SMTP, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »

I missed that this has become way easier: Searching code – GitHub Docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/02

For my link archive, the table of contents of [Wayback/Archive/Archive] Searching code – GitHub Docs:

Limitations apply:

Due to the complexity of searching code, there are some restrictions on how searches are performed:

  • You must be signed into a user account on GitHub to search for code across all public repositories.
  • Code in forks is only searchable if the fork has more stars than the parent repository. Forks with fewer stars than the parent repository are not indexed for code search. To include forks with more stars than their parent in the search results, you will need to add fork:true or fork:only to your query. For more information, see “Searching in forks.”
  • Only the default branch is indexed for code search.
  • Only files smaller than 384 KB are searchable.
  • Only repositories with fewer than 500,000 files are searchable.
  • Only repositories that have had activity or have been returned in search results in the last year are searchable.
  • Except with filename searches, you must always include at least one search term when searching source code. For example, searching for language:javascript is not valid, while amazing language:javascript is.
  • At most, search results can show two fragments from the same file, but there may be more results within the file.
  • You can’t use the following wildcard characters as part of your search query: . , : ; / \ ` ' " = * ! ? # $ & + ^ | ~ < > ( ) { } [ ] @. The search will simply ignore these symbols.

There is a truckload of languages supported, though the yaml format of the list is not really human readable: [Wayback/Archive] linguist/languages.yml at master · github/linguist

I’ll try this and see if it works better than Google Search.

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, GitHub, Google, GoogleSearch, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

Effective way in Chrome to open a specific bookmark (as you cannot have shortcut keys for that)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/01

I am a keyboard user, so I love keyboard shortcuts. If these are unavailable, still do it by keyboard quicker than by mouse.

Based on various answers and comments in [Wayback/Archive] Shortcut to open specific bookmark / URL in Chrome – Super User my way to open Chrome bookmarks (from my vast collection) is this:

  • Move focus to the url bar with ⌘+L (macOS) or Ctrl+L (Windows/Linux).
  • Type the first part of the bookmark name.
  • Press navigation keys to select the bookmark.
  • Press enter to select the bookmark.

Thanks to these Super User users:

Via [Wayback/Archive] chrome hotkey for bookmark bar – Google Search

–jeroen

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