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Add-ons for Firefox. Replace Your Firefox Plugins with Mozilla Ubiquity /  Ted Curran. Two of the most popular posts here on TedCurran.net deal with replacing your too-huge collection of browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome to improve your browser’s speed and performance. Replace Your Firefox Plugins with Mozilla Ubiquity and Over-Extending your Firefox with Extensions? Use Different Firefox-Powered Browsers for Different Tasks! Unfortunately, these posts are woefully out of date and recommend tools that are no longer supported. Obviously, you’ve been searching for ways to slim down your browser extensions to keep it quick, responsive, and light. You already know how slow and sluggish your beloved browser can get when it’s bogged down with too many extensions.

What are bookmarklets? Here’s a little secret– all those browser extensions you have are really just buttons to trigger a javascript command that makes the customizations you want. Some of my favorite bookmarklets Readable: Formats web articles into a readable, ad-free view, instantly in the browser. Evernote: TBuzz: TrackMeNot. The practice of logging user search activities and creating individual search profiles - sometimes identifiable - has received attention in mainstream press, e.g. the recent front-page New York Times article on AOL 's release of collected data on individual searchers; also this front-page New York Times Business Section article describing the User-Profiling Practices of Yahoo!

, AOL, Bing & Google. We are disturbed by the idea that search inquiries are systematically monitored and stored by corporations like AOL, Yahoo! , Google, etc. and may even be available to third parties. Because the Web has grown into such a crucial repository of information and our search behaviors profoundly reflect who we are, what we care about, and how we live our lives, there is reason to feel they should be off-limits to arbitrary surveillance. But what can be done? We have developed TrackMeNot as an immediate solution, implemented and controlled by users themselves.

Firebug JavaScript Debugger and Profiler. Firebug includes a powerful JavaScript debugger that lets you pause execution at any time and see what each variable looked like at that moment. If your code is a little sluggish, use the JavaScript profiler to measure performance and find bottlenecks fast. Find scripts easily Many web applications are comprised of quite a number of files, and finding the one you want to debug can be a chore. Firebug's script file chooser sorts and organizes files into very clean list that will help you find any file in a snap.

You can also type to filter the list. Pause execution on any line Firebug allows you to set breakpoints, which tell the debugger to pause execution when it reaches a specific line. To set breakpoints, just click on any line number, and a red dot will appear to indicate that the breakpoint is set. Pause execution, but only if... Breakpoints can be troublesome if you find them breaking too often. To set a conditional breakpoint, just right-click on any line number. One step at a time. Web Developer. StumbleUpon. StumbleVideo. StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon is a discovery engine (a form of web search engine) that finds and recommends web content to its users. Its features allow users to discover and rate Web pages, photos and videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests using peer-sourcing and social-networking principles. StumbleUpon acquired 5by in 2013 which its video discovery product.[3] History[edit] StumbleUpon was founded in November 2002[8] by Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance and Eric Boyd during Garrett's time in post-graduate school in Calgary, Canada.

The idea of creating a company was established before the content: of the five or six ideas for products, StumbleUpon was chosen. Garrett describes in a BBC interview the moment for him in which he felt the company had really taken off: "When we passed the half a million mark (in registered users), it seemed more real On January 16, 2013, StumbleUpon confirmed it had laid off 30% of their staff from 110 to 75 employees.[14] Service details[edit] Greasemonkey. Userscripts.org: Power-ups for your browser. Cheat bejeweled blitz.

Riverside Grandpa Demolishes the Bejeweled Code - Stuns Creator Video game ranking site VGChartz reports that Mike Leyde, a 56-year old steel contractor from Riverside, California, has broken Bejeweled 2's scoreboard with a score of 2,147,783,647. Brian Fiete, co-creator of Bejeweled, is shocked: "The highest score the game is capable of calculating is 2,147,483,647; that’s 2 to the 31st power minus 1.

We had to give the game some sort of maximum displayable... 0 social-games » Inspiration Riverside Grandpa Demolishes the Bejeweled Code - Stuns Creator How to Change preference values in Bejeweled 2 (12/02/08) Bejeweled 2 is a famous web-based free game. Social-games » How-To. NASA Night Launch.