Just when I thought I made a note of a password I hardly ever use, I didn’t, luckily this open source tools understands how to recover many kinds of passwords: AlessandroZ/LaZagne: Credentials recovery project.
–jeroen
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AlessandroZ/LaZagne: Credentials recovery project
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/15
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A way to skip the Firefox “Well, this is embarrassing” during a sudden reboot
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/04
A while ago, I asked about [WayBack] “Is there a way to skip the Firefox “Well, this is embarrassing” during a sudden reboot and just continue with the loading of the default pages? – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
Later I found the workaround at both and [WayBack] Well this is embarrassing message | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support with more elaboration at [WayBack] Don’t give Chance for Firefox to Show ‘Well, this is embarrassing” message next time again | Techdows:
- Open Firefox
- Type
about:configin the addressbar 
Confirm the
This might void your warranty!
by clicking
I accept the risk!- Search for
browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash - Double click it so the value changes from the
defaultvaluetrueto theuser setvaluefalse
Now after a sudden reboot of the machine, a start of Firefox just loads the default page.
–jeroen
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Privacy badger: blocks spying ads and invisible trackers. Not just for Facebook, but for every site.
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/29
[WayBack] Privacy Badger | Electronic Frontier Foundation: Privacy Badger blocks spying ads and invisible trackers.
Chrome first run settings are at
chrome-extension://pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp/skin/firstRun.html
Via: [WayBack] Arjen Lentz on Twitter: “EFF’s Privacy Badger does this for any site. Also available for Chrome/Chromium.… “
There is a really interesting Y-combinator thread at [WayBack] Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked | Hacker News which goes way deeper in how various browsers and extension combinations can help you getting more hold of your privacy.
A few links via that hacker news link:
- mbasic.facebook.com is very basic web-interface version of Facebook: super light weight.
- [WayBack] Mac: Routing Links to Chrome Profiles – Tatsuhiko Miyagawa’s Blog
- [WayBack] GitHub – mozilla/multi-account-containers: Firefox Multi-Account Containers adds new features to Containers.
- [WayBack] How to Enable Multiple Profiles in Google Chrome
–jeroen
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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.
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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