Software by tag 'browser'

Google Chrome adds Greasemonkey script support

Posted by Lim on Nov 1st, 08 | Filed under Internet, Tips | No Comments

Although Google Chrome is more “lightweight” compare with other famous browsers such as Firefox and Opera, but one thing that make most of the users avoid using it is because it missing the support of plugins and extensions which will greatly increase the usability of the browser.

However, the latest Google Chrome supports Greasemonkey script. Since there is no way to install extension, so the browser will only loads the scripts from c:\scripts. Furthermore, users need to add the parameter –enable-greasemonkey at the end of the shortcut.

You need build 3499 or later in order to run Greasemonkey script. You may use this method to always get the latest version of Google Chrome.

Download Google Chrome 0.3.154.6 Now

Posted by Lim on Oct 28th, 08 | Filed under Application, Downloads | 2 Comments

Google Chrome is the latest Web Browser from Google. Currently, the developers of Google Chrome had released version 0.3.154.6, which is mainly target for Dev channel only. There is no new feature introduce in this version. However, it fixed a lot of bugs from previous version.

These are the summary of bugs fixed:

Fixes a crash with Adobe Acrobat 9 whenever you close a tab that was showing a PDF file.
Fixes a crash while dragging tabs on Windows Vista with pen input or tablet services.
Fixes a crash while dragging tabs.
Fixes problems with the downloaded files shelf not closing and becoming unresponsive.
Fixes not being able to save ‘unconfirmed’ file types with different names (Save As…).
Fixes Silverlight video not playing on some sites.
Fixes the page encoding menu to work properly again.
Fixes a crash in the spell checker.
Fixes Ctrl+K to work again (focus the address bar and clear it for a new search).

You may download Google Chrome 0.3.154.6 from this page or download the portable version from this page.

How to check and download the latest Chrome build

Posted by Lim on Sep 18th, 08 | Filed under Application, Downloads, Internet, Tips | 2 Comments

Google Chrome is a new browser, and the developers release around 10 versions per day. So, how are you going to check the current version and download?

Dirhael from DonationCoder.com had release an application which can check the latest release and download it using your default browser.

Just press the “Check” button and it will show you the latest release version. after that, you may choose to download the Installer or Archive. The download will start with your default browser.

download from DonationCoder | download from MediaFire

Edit any website within your browser

Posted by Lim on Jul 9th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Design, Firefox, Internet | No Comments

Do you think that it is possible to edit and modify website within your browser, just like editing a wiki website? Yes, it is possible!

Edit current website is a bookmarklet button. When you press the button, you can start edit the website, within install any other plugin or extension.

The modified website will stay until you press the refresh button. It is very useful when you want to take a print screen of certain website, but you want to modify the content. Instead of edit the content thrpugh image editing software, you can now do it within your browser.

In the example above, i had modified the radio button’s text to “Search this planet?“. Cool? So, how to add this bookmarklet to your browser? Simply drag this “Edit current website” and drop it to your browser’s toolbar.

Enjoy!

Bookmarklet: Edit current website

Titlebar Tweaks – Change your Firefox titlebar

Posted by Lim on Apr 24th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Firefox, Tips | 1 Comment

Titlebar Tweaks is a Firefox plugin which let user change the title bar for different format. For example, you can set the title to “My browser”.

User can change the title to any text they want, or they can change the format of the title bar. For example, the default format is “Webpage title – Browser Name”. But, user can change the title format to display either webpage title only or browser name only, or display both, with different order.

After download the plugin, go to your Firefox->Tools->Add-ons and choose Titlebar Tweaks. After that, you can start changing your Firefox titlebar.

Install this plugin in your office computer. You can then change the title of Firefox so that your boss/friends don’t know the page title. But, if your office computer comes with any logging aplications, your admin still can find out your internet activities.

download Titlebar Tweaks

Use Web based Stumbleupon toolbar to discover new sites

Posted by Lim on Feb 22nd, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Internet, Tips, Tutorial | 3 Comments

Stumbleupon is a great service because it let users to discover new sites and rate/review them. Now, this trick will let user use the Stumbleupon toolbar without install it.

Firefox and Internet Explorer users can enjoy the Stumble because they can easily install the extension/plugin toolbar. But, users of other browser such as Opera and Safari can’t enjoy this because there is no Stumbleupon toolbar for them!

Now, thanks to Digital Inspiration, he discover a way to use Stumbleupon toolbar without installing it. And this trick works for all browser! All you have to do is enter http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/#url=http://www.techsnack.net/ to your address bar and hit enter. You can replace the www.techsnack.net with any URL.

Web Stumbleupon toolbar

This toolbar look like the original Stumbleupon toolbar. Although it has the full list of buttons, but you can’t vote for the website or submit to another friends. What you can do is just click the Stumble! button and it bring you to another new site.

This works great for non-supported browser such as Opera and Safari. For Firefox or IE users, you can try this if you don’t want to install to much plugin to your toolbar.

demo

Manage your Firefox tab pages with these plugins

Posted by Lim on Feb 18th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Firefox | 8 Comments

There are few plugins that will help users to manage their Firefox tab pages. If you like to open more than ten tab pages at the same time, i think you need these plugins.

Tab Mix Plus is a Firefox plugin which include a lot of features such as undo closed tabs, tab clicking options, and much more. The main feature that attract me is it enable multi-row tab display. Go to your Tab Mix Plus Options -> Display -> Tab Bar -> When tabs don’t fit width, choose Multi-row.
Tab Scope and Tab Preview show a pop-up on tabs so that you can view the contents of the tab through pop-up.
Vertigo moves the tab bar to the left side of the browser. It is recommended for users who open a lot of tab pages at the same time.
IE Tab let users switch between IE and Firefox engine with single click. Some websites are only compatible to IE, but you may wish to use Firefox to open it. Click on the Firefox icon at the bottom-right corner to switch to IE engine.
Tab Groups is a Firefox plugin that let users organize tab pages into groups.
Send Tab URLs add a File menu command so that you can easily create an email message which contains the list of open tab URL. You can use this plugin to share URLs with your friends.
FaviconizeTab adds option to the context menu so that you can minimize the width of the tab to the size of favicon.

Conclusion

There are too many plugins to manage your Firefox tab pages. But, i don’t think you need all of them. Choose 1 or 2 that suite your needs. Install too many plugins will slow down your Firefox speed and it may crash your Firefox if these plugins are not compatible to each others.

If you wish to have multiple feature in single plugin, go for Tab Mix Plus.