[WayBack] Google Chrome Web Browser 69 changes: most are not talked about (like excess whitespace, address bar search algorithm changes).
–jeroen
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Google Chrome Web Browser 69 changes
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/15
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Chrome Store Foxified: Enables the Google Chrome Store and Opera Addons Website for Firefox.
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/27
Most of my browser life is in Chrome, but the memory consumption and CPU usage has increased so much over time so it, err, become less than optimal.
Given the new FireFox is supposed to use far less memory and CPU than previous FireFox versions, I want to try it, but since so much of my Chrome life is about Chrome Extensions, I was glad to discover [WayBack] Chrome Store Foxified
Enables the Google Chrome Store and Opera Addons Website for Firefox. Point and click to install Opera/Chrome extensions straight into Firefox.
via:
- [WayBack] CommitStrip @CommitStrip: Firefox 57
- [WayBack] Firefox 57: The blog relating the daily life of web agency developers
- [WayBack] Will BL @williambl_: @hristiyandodov @CommitStrip This addon allows you to install addons straight from the chrome store https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-foxified/
- [WayBack] Hristiyan Dodov @hristiyandodov: @CommitStrip Chrome Extensions.
–jeroen
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How to enable JavaScript in your browser and why
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/02
Just in case it’s not enabled yet: How to enable JavaScript in your browser and why
It even has some html to redirect to it, which I’ve replaced with the wayback machine (and put into a gist as WordPress kills noscript tag blocks and everything they contain.
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| For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. | |
| Here are the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160402005258/http://www.enable-javascript.com/" target="_blank"> | |
| instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser</a>. | |
| </noscript> |
I needed it as at a client site, one of the embedded devices would show the message “Javascript is required to use this web portal” in various web browsers so I had to check the JavaScript status in each browser.
–jeroen
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When your browser extensions go rouge…
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/21
A while ago I suspected at least one of my Chrome extensions to do funny things.
In the end it appeared that “Live HTTP Headers 1.0.8” went rogue a while ago and has by now been removed from the store as this link is gone: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/iaiioopjkcekapmldfgbebdclcnpgnlo ()
It was part of a much larger set of extensions that went away and isn’t limited to Chrome: other browsers with extension mechanisms suffer from this too. More links about this at the bottom of this post.
Which means that by now you should be really careful which extensions you have installed and enabled.
So, browse through these and ensure you’ve disabled everything you don’t need permanently:
On my system, I removed these:
- “Live HTTP Headers 1.0.8” used to be at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/iaiioopjkcekapmldfgbebdclcnpgnlo
- This extension contains malware.
- “JSONView 0.0.32.2” used to be at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chklaanhfefbnpoihckbnefhakgolnmc
- This extension contains a serious security vulnerability.
- “Read Later Fast 1.6.18” used to be at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/decdfngdidijkdjgbknlnepdljfaepji
- This extension violates the Chrome Web Store policy.
When you go from Chrome to these URLs through the extensions page, it usually appends an UTM tracker like utm_source to the URL.
So I dug into that as well and found these links explaining them:
- [WayBack] What Is “UTM_Source” And Should You Be Worried? – Make Tech Easier
- [WayBack] Understanding utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign | ByteFive Internet Marketing and Publishing
- [WayBack] How I use utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign from Google Analytics | Davin’s blog
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Schlechte Nachrichten für Fritz!box User: http://nic.box/ Euer http://fritz.b…
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/18
[WayBack] Schlechte Nachrichten für Fritz!box User: http://nic.box/ Euer http://fritz.box ist nicht mehr das, was es sein sollte. EDIT: Muahahaha … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Now there is http://nic.box/ for the new [WayBack] box top level domain and AVM does not yet have the pre-registered fritz.box there effectuated (because .box is not in final registration state yet).
Kristian:
Schlechte Nachrichten für Fritz!box User: http://nic.box/ Euer http://fritz.box ist nicht mehr das, was es sein sollte.
EDIT: Muahahaha
kris@h1755802:~> host fritz.box
fritz.box has address 127.0.53.53
fritz.box mail is handled by 10 your-dns-needs-immediate-attention.box.
The joke is in the cryptic “your-dns-needs-immediate-attention” and usage of 127.0.53.53. to indicate a gTLD name collision.
Chrome knows about ICANN though and explains it in a slightly more readable form when browsing to http://fritz.box (:
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Letsencrypt and support for Google Chrome “Requiring Certificate Transparency in 2017”
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/29
This week there was the very important Google Chrome Announcement: Requiring Certificate Transparency in 2017 – Google Groups [Archive.is].
I’m glad that letsencrypt already submits all certificates to Certificate Transparency logs [WayBack] for X1 and X3 but there is more to it as you can read in How Certificate Transparency Works – Certificate Transparency [WayBack].
So there’s a [Google Chrome] Announcement: Requiring Certificate Transparency in 2017 – Feature Requests – Let’s Encrypt Community Support [WayBack and Archive.is].
Hopefully one or both of these issues see some progress soon:
- Include SCT receipts in OCSP responses · Issue #592 · letsencrypt/boulder
- Embed SCT receipts in certificates · Issue #2244 · letsencrypt/boulder
–jeroen
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What every Browser knows about you
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/19
See all the data your browser reveals about you by visting a website.
Source: What every Browser knows about you
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One line browser notepad (via: Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga)
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/19
Smart, it works in any modern html5 capable browser:
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Be sure to look at the blog post and comments at Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga : One line browser notepad as they explain why this works, and how to extend it in a couple of really smart way.
–jeroen
via: Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga : One line browser notepad.
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13 Ways to Clear Your Browser’s Cache – wikiHow
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/06
Besides the cache empty instructions, these keyboard shortcut to get to the settings in various browsers are also really helpful:
- Control+Shift+Delete on a PC, or
- Shift+Command+Delete on a Mac.
–jeroen
via: 13 Ways to Clear Your Browser’s Cache – wikiHow.
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Instantly save a web-page to the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive: www.archive.org)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/24
Saving a web page for posterity is really easy: just prepend http://liveweb.archive.org/ in front of the URL in your browser, then open the page.
The Wayback Machine (Internet Aarchive) wil instantly archive it.
See this great answer by Jeff Atwood quite a while ago:
One thing that the ineffable Jason Scott just pointed out to me on Twitter:
if you give the url of the page to http://liveweb.archive.org and wait five minutes, it will archive that page. How about that?
Also you can enter
http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.website.com/pageto have it happen without visiting the page.So if you want to ensure that a popular soon-to-be or may-possibly-be deleted question gets archived by the Internet Archive, manually feed them to the URL above.
I suppose for already deleted questions, we could also undelete, wait 5 minutes, let it archive, then re-delete.
–jeroen
via: Building an archive of deleted questions – Meta Stack Overflow.
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