For my research list: [Wayback/Archive] Tootski, a sharing bookmarklet for Mastodon · GitHub
--jeroen
Archive for the ‘Web Browsers’ Category
note to self: figure out which browser to use for MV2 (Manifest Version 2) plugins and how to (re)install them
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01
Edit 20250802:
Migrating from Chrome to Edge was way easier than anticipated: it imported my account, bookmarks and my extensions automagically. With one exception (uBlock Origin), most of them were enabled too, apart from a few that Edge needed extra permission confirmation for and the ones that Chrome had disabled. All of these could be enabled/installed after installing uBlock Origin manually.
Then I had go to through the tedious process of re-signing in various accounts (like mail, blogging, social media, etc).
These things did not import automatically and needed manual adjustment:
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Igor Brigadir posted a few useful Twitter search tips a while back: searching tweets, users, disable auto-URL, embedding media, etc
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/11
For my link archive:
- [Wayback/Archive] Help:How to get a Twitter user numeric ID – Wikidata
- [Wayback/Archive] “🧵 Some resources to get started: 🔎 Link to Advanced Twitter Search:
twitter.com/search-advanced🔍 All known queries:github.com/igorbrigadir/twitter-advanced-search“- [Wayback/Archive] Explore / Twitter: Search -> Advanced
- [Wayback/Archive] igorbrigadir/twitter-advanced-search: Advanced Search for Twitter. (with all operators and lots of examples)
- [Wayback/Archive] “You can view the “who to follow” recommendations manually for other people, use
tweeterid.comto get the user ID, and this url:twitter.​com/i/connect_people?user_id=123eg, for me:twitter.com/i/connect_people?user_id=495430242Useful for finding similar users!”- [Wayback/Archive] TweeterID – Twitter ID and username converter
- [Wayback/Archive] Connect / Twitter: user_id=495430242 (you need to be logged on to Twitter in order to view the result)
- [Wayback/Archive] “Like above, you can “turn off” a link, using a zero width space:
zerowidthspace.mecopy paste it somewhere in the TLD (.com) to stop twitter from parsing it as a link, like this:https://example.​com/?foo=barUseful to show url parameters, or tweet banned links.” - [Wayback/Archive] “Embedding / stealing other people’s media: Most reliable way is to use Tweetdeck, and “…” menu “Share via Email” and copy paste the t.​co link you get at the very end, like so: https://t.co/7Lfah38nVy (You don’t have to download & upload but also means it could get deleted)”
- [Wayback/Archive] “To do the reverse, and get the original “embedded” video, if you see someone doing this (you can see the “From Reaction Videos” credit in there, which goes to the profile, not the tweet), use this bookmarklet:”
- [Wayback/Archive] “Quick useful tool for this: Copy paste this JS into
caiorss.github.io/bookmarklet-makerto make a browser bookmarklet that takes you to the original tweet:javascript:(function(){(m=>{m&&(window.location=m.slice(-1)[0])})(document.title.match(/(\bhttps?:\/\/t\.co\/[\w\-\.as]+)/g))})()“- [Wayback/Archive] caiorss/bookmarklet-maker: Tool to create bookmarklet/ javascript apps to automate the web browser.
- [Wayback/Archive] steven ”italian elon musk” monacelli on Twitter: “Some big Twitter accounts use a practice called “video embedding” which allows them to repost the videos other people have posted without directly referencing the original thread where that video was posted. With few exceptions this is bad behavior. Let me explain why. 1/”
- [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @stevanzetti on Thread Reader App
- [Wayback/Archive] “Quick useful tool for this: Copy paste this JS into
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Alex’s Bookmarklets – New Twitter RSS Bookmarklet, Font Bookmarklet
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/09
Some entries for my inspiration: [Wayback/Archive] Alex’s Bookmarklets – New Twitter RSS Bookmarklet, Font Bookmarklet
- Getting font from selected text (see also [Wayback/Archive] alexch/fonzie and [Wayback/Archive] FontFriend – Soma Design)
- Twitter trends optimiser
- Show Twitter RSS
–jeroen
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Notes on Firefox cookie managers
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/07
I tried these:
- 3.7 stars [Wayback/Archive] Cookie Manager – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
- 4.4 stars [Wayback/Archive] Cookie Quick Manager – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
For me, the last works best and has its configuration page at moz-extension://4ea87baa-23b8-4b4a-bd88-7a6bc4b8e442/cookies.html?parent_url=
The first starts with an intimidating query screen without clear indication on what each query option means nor how to perform deletes on the returned cookies.
I did not yet try 4.2 stars [Wayback/Archive] Cookie-Editor – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Query: [Wayback/Archive] firefox cookie manager – Google Suche
Note: my usual starting point is moz-extension://4ea87baa-23b8-4b4a-bd88-7a6bc4b8e442/cookies.html?parent_url=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.org%2Fweb%2F*%2F as that will select cookies on web.archive.org where lots of archived sites pollute that domain with cookies. This inevitably causes the Wayback Machine save page to error out.
--jeroen
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GitHub: finding the oldest commit on large repositories
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/25
The manual process of getting back to the earliest commit of a GitHub repository is easy for small repositories, but for a large one it is very tedious.
TL;DR: there are various ways, but the easiest was the INIT Bookmarklet below.
Note: 2 weeks before the scheduled post made it to the front of the queue, I got a reportÂą that it started to fail. Here it still works.
It’s hard to debug because of the functional programming approach taken.
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zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation | USENIX
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/19
Many web-sites and password managers have a strength indicator built-in.
This is a really good example (with open source JavaScript code!) of one: [Wayback/Archive] zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation | USENIX
Be aware though that it stores a plain text file named passwords.txt on your system (this seems to confuse some users, especially when their password is in it).
Homans password behaviour does not change much over time, so this half hour 2016 presentation on it is still current: [Wayback/Archive] USENIX Security ’16 – zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation – YouTube for which you can download:
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Yes, you can globally block JavaScript and enablpe per-site, but you block Bookmarklets too
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/16
Trying to trim down excessive CPU usage of my web browsers, and lessen the risk of intrusion, I experimented with globally disabling JavaScript and only enabling it on sites where it adds value to me.
That is possible (see below), but immediately showed a big side effect: Bookmarklets will not work on sites that have JavaScript disabled.
Disabling JavaScript globally only allows Bookmarklets on sites where you have enabled JavaScript. Not the situation I hoped for (:
I’ll try it for a while though.
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Early Firefox history thread by @asadotzler on Thread Reader App (from before it was called Phoenix, heck from before Phoenix was created!)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/14
A few years back I bumped in this cool [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @asadotzler on Thread Reader App on early Firefox history (from before it was called Phoenix or Firebird, heck from before Phoenix was created!).
It is important to keep telling these bits of history as they are fundamental to understand the Web Browser landscape as it is now.
Great material that complements Wikipedia articles like these:
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Coo responses to b0rk no Twitter: “is there an easy way (in the browser, at runtime) to generate a call graph of which functions called which other functions in a javascript program?”
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/13
For my reading list, the various responses to [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “is there an easy way (in the browser, at runtime) to generate a call graph of which functions called which other functions in a javascript program?”
--jeroen
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