Browser Conkeror – fast, versatile, easy and configurable

2010-10-20 2 min read Linux
Conkeror is a browser that uses XULRunner and is a highly configurable and programmable browser. Here is the description of the browser from the homepage: Conkeror is a keyboard-oriented, highly-customizable, highly-extensible web browser based on Mozilla XULRunner, written mainly in JavaScript, and inspired by exceptional software such as Emacs and vi. Conkeror features a sophisticated keyboard system, allowing users to run commands and interact with content in powerful and novel ways. 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

Unixmen - Tips to reduce memory usage on Firefox

2010-07-14 1 min read Firefox Uncategorized
A nice aritcle on reducing the memory usage of firefox on <a class="zem_slink" title="Linux" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux. There are some things in life everyone is looking for and no one ever finds and there are other things that people keep finding and re-finding and inventing and re-inventing. Reducing memory usage for <a class="zem_slink" title="Firefox" rel="homepage" href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox and speeding it up is one such thing. So, here is another story to reduce the memory usage of firefox. Continue reading

find duplicate entry in a list in bash with sed

2010-06-25 1 min read bash Fedora Learning
Here I will take an example of rss2email list, but I guess I will be able to pass on the concept. Here is example of the output of the r2e list command: 1: http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/feed (default: amitag@localhost) 2: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AllAboutLinux (default: amitag@localhost) 3: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Command-line-fu (default: amitag@localhost) 4: http://blogs.members.freewebs.com/Members/Blogs/viewBlogRSS.jsp?userid=29731143 (default: amitag@localhost) Target here is to get the list of all duplicate entries if any. So, first we need to remove the numbers from the begining and the email ID from the end. 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
Here is a one-line that would help you get the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/mozilla_firefox" title="Firefox" rel="homepage" href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">Firefox addons in the bash script: grep -hIr \<em:name ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/extensions|sed &#8217;s#\s*##&#8217;|sed &#8217;s#.*\(>.*<\).*#\1#&#8217;|sed &#8217;s/[<\|>]//g&#8217;|sort -u<h6 class="zemanta-related-title">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2010/05/16/firefox-3-6-4-build-4-released/">Firefox 3.6.4 Build 4 Released (ghacks.net) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/05/first-look-firefox-4-preview-delivers-speed-revamped-interface/">First Look: Firefox 4 Preview Delivers Speed, Revamped Interface (webmonkey.com) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.ghacks.net/2010/05/15/protect-firefox-bookmarks-with-link-password/">Protect Firefox Bookmarks With Link Password (ghacks.net) <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/12/mozilla-firefox-4-upgrade_n_573062.html">Firefox 4 Upgrade Offers Simpler Design, More Privacy Control (huffingtonpost. Continue reading

They own your CPU (and so so in Windows and Mac, too)

2010-05-16 1 min read Firefox Linux
Click: &#8221;I laugh — LAUGH! — when a tech journalist writes something to the effect of, &#8221;for lightweight tasks such as Web browsing,&#8221; when you know, and I know, that there ain&#8217;t nothing light about using present-day Web browser on present-day Web pages filled with Javascript, Flash and enough CSS to fill a book.&#8221; URL: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-22-030-35-OP-HW-SW">http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-22-030-35-OP-HW-SW<h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em;">Related articles by Zemanta <ul class="zemanta-article-ul"> <li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.noupe.com/jquery/35-fresh-useful-jquery-plugins.html">35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins (noupe. Continue reading
Older posts Newer posts