Turn on Do Not Track in your browser
On 2011/04/16
Lately, a movement to add some privacy to our browsing has taken hold. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 (Windows 7 only), Mozilla Firefox 4 (all operating systems), and Apple’s Safari for the Mac OS X 10.7.x, codenamed “Lion”, all add a Do Not Track [...]
Speed up your browser, turn off proxies
On 2011/03/16
The following applies to Windows and OS X in slightly different ways.
We all want our computers to run faster. Starting up your browser can be slowed down if it is searching for proxies. Most likely you don’t know what a proxy server is. You probably aren’t running a proxy server or [...]
If you get the following pop-up dialog in Firefox go ahead and disable the plug-in and restart your browser. Palemoon is a custom-built and optimized for Windows Firefox derivative that I am testing.
If you do not want to wait for the popup, you can find out if this is installed in [...]
Tweaking Twitter
On 2009/03/15
The basic Twitter home page is spartan. I added two Firefox Greasemonkey userscripts to improve the page. I like the “improved” page much better. What do you think?
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