get all the urls in html file (local or on server).

2014-02-17 1 min read bash Fedora
To use this, you will need the lynx tool, so install that first. sudo yum install lynx Now, to get list of all the URLs in local html file or some URL, just execute this: lynx -dump -listonly Related articles Trouble in using file_get_contents() How to send image to server with url in ios Endangered species of the Web: the Link

cgroups – use to control your cpu and memory

2014-01-06 2 min read Fedora Firefox Learning
cgroups is a kernel feature and with userspace utilities, we can use the feature to control the cpu and memory for per process. So, lets first install the required tools. sudo yum install libcgroup-tools Now, we need to enable the service. sudo systemctl enable cgconfig.service sudo systemctl enable cgred.service cgconfig.service is to enable configuration for cgroups and cgred.service is to enable configuration for cgroups for processes depending on the name. Continue reading

Firefox troubleshooting

2013-03-11 1 min read Firefox
Here are few quick tips on getting to see what could be wrong with firefox. Config entries – about:config Support Information – about:support Details on config entries – http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries Reset firefox profile – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems Firefox profiles – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data Related articles Set your own new tab page in Firefox Improved plain-text handling in Firefox Mozilla language packs now auto updated

Taking screenshot in firefox.

2013-02-03 1 min read Firefox
Couple of days back, I was trying to take screenshot with Firefox. As usual I started out with searching for plugins which could take a screen shot for the whole page and not just the visible portion of the page. Installed couple of them, some did not work. Finally I found something called Development Bar. So, here is a simple way to take a screenshot. Press “Shift+F12”. This will bring up a bar in the bottom of the firefox window. Continue reading

Change the firefox theme without restarting.

2010-09-27 1 min read Firefox
How often you wished that you could change the theme for firefox without restarting. Well sometime back Mozilla came up with Light weight themes called personna’s but if that is not sufficient for you and you still want to change the theme and do not want to restart then you should install this theme. Once you install this theme, you will not note any change (Don’t forget to restart after installing the theme. Continue reading

FastestfoxLite - Disable prefetching and make firefox really fast.

2010-06-14 1 min read Firefox
If you are stuck with firefox performance, then you should try this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9148/<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-make-firefox-blazing-fast-in-a-jiffy-fasterfox-add-on/">How to make Firefox blazing fast in a jiffy: fasterfox add-on (taragana.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.cloudspace.com/blog/2010/06/03/html5-link-prefetching-or-the-most-dangerous-tag/">HTML5 Link Prefetching (or &#8221;The Most Dangerous Tag&#8221;) (cloudspace.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2010/05/15/configure-prefetch-and-superfetch-with-tweakprefetch/">Configure Prefetch and Superfetch With TweakPrefetch (ghacks.net) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2010/06/10/fix-firefox-with-last-pass-not-responding/">Fix Firefox With Last Pass Not Responding (ghacks.net) <div class="zemanta-pixie"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" title="Enhanced by Zemanta" href="http://www. Continue reading

List all the installed firefox addons from the bash script

2010-05-18 1 min read bash Fedora Linux
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