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Useful web development tools for newbie

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on Wednesday June 14th, 2006
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Recently I’ve had to set up some web site for work (a CMS and a blog). What took me most time is to modify the layout and apprearance of the pages playing with CSS and php scripts.

I’ve found some interesting tools that can help the CSS/Webdev newbie in that work:
* Web Developer Extension for Firefox: This extenxion adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools: disabling of various features including the cache, JavaScript and page colors, various cookie related tools including disabling, adding and viewing cookies, tools related to the CSS on the page including displaying the styles applied to the selected element and live editing of the CSS, ability to manipulate the forms on the page including display the form details and populating form fields, image related tools including finding broken images and outlining images, various informational tools including displaying element information and viewing the document size… (see features page for more)
* Web Development Bookmarklets: These bookmarklets let you see how a web page is coded without digging through the source, debug problems in web pages quickly, and experiment with CSS or JS without editing the actual page. One of them is a live CSS editor, another one is a JS shell…

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Firefox max script run time

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on Friday March 3rd, 2006
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With so many Ajax and Javascripts stuffs in web pages — gmail… — my Firefox browser is nowadays complaining about unresponsive scripts.

There is a Firefox tunable parameter that you can modify in order to raise the timeout:
dom.max_script_run_time. The default value seems to be 5 second. I’ve raised it to 20s.

Open about:config in your browser and change it there.

See MozillaZine Knowledge Base for detailled information.

UPDATED 24/03/2006: You can also check this page for information about all Firefox config options.

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Firefox Ads blocking solution

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on Monday October 31st, 2005
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Want to get rid of all that annoying ads on every web page you go?

Install that 2 Firefox extensions:
* AdBlock Plus
* Adblock Filterset.G Updater: adblock filters auto-updater

And restart your Firefox browser to get the Ad filtersets updated. You’re done!

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Temporary email address

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on Monday October 31st, 2005
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Need a temporary email address for web site registration or whatever? Go to Jetable.org, type your real email address and they will give you a temporary generated email alias.

You can set the time validity of the address (1 hour, 1 day, 1 week). Easy and usefull!

They also provide you with a Firefox extension.

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Google search history vs. CustomizeGoogle

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on Thursday October 6th, 2005
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CustomizeGoogle is a firefox extension that let you tweak many options and features of Google pages.

On the other side, Google offers a feature called “searchhistory” (available to all those who have a google account — actually, if you have a Gmail account, it is a google account). Acording to what google says:

Personalized Search is an improvement to Google search that orders your search results based on what’s most relevant to you. The Search History feature of Personalized Search lets you view and manage your history of searches and search results you’ve clicked on; this information then personalizes your future search results by bringing results closer to the top when it’s clear they’re most relevant to you.

I love this searchhistory thing. I think what i prefer is that i can search between all the searches i’ve done and all the pages i’ve clicked on from google, from any computer connected to the web. I also like the fact that Google could order results based on my previous searches, what should hopefully give me better results. Actually i’m almost never disapointed by Google results.

Unfortunately, recently i’ve seen that Google searchhistory stopped to record clicked results as such, and all searches started to appear as “Searches with no clicked results” — sigh.

I RTFM, and found a question in Google searchhistory’s help page about this, and they directed me to check if i use a supported browser with Javascript enabled. Yes, i use Firefox with Javascript enabled.

After trying Google searchhistory with an MSIE browser, and verifying it actually worked fine I started to suspect that maybe CustomizeGoogle was for something in my troubles.

I then remembered that some days ago I actualized the extension to it’s last version. After checking the options (Tools/CustomizeGoogle options…) i saw the option causing this “side effect”:

  • Remove click tracking

The option was selected.

Actually, if you look at the extension’s changelog, you’ll read:

2005-08-23 v0.25 — Added: Remove Google click tracking in websearch (enabled by default)

If you leave the option checked (by default), Google searchhistory won’t work for you! You have the choice.

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