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  • New Window Disabler

    The New Window Disabler […] Features Include: – remove _blank targets – make links with rel=external – remove javascript popups (needs work)

    userscripts.org

    It’s a Greasemonkey script.

    Looks like I’d had this, or _blank Must Die, or Don’t open new windows, installed for so long I’d forgotten about it, but definitely realized it was missing when those annoying pop-ups re-appeared after a clean install of Firefox.

    Hum. I seem to have none of those scripts in my old installation’s profile folder. Wonder how I got rid of those pop-ups before?

    Update: Ah: browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction set to 0. Ergo: forget everything I said above.

  • XPCOM: Event Receiver refusing to die at shutdown

    After a fresh, clean install of Windows XP and Service Pack 2, installing Firefox 2 seems to have gifted me the notorious XPCOM: Event Receiver problem. No extensions, no nothing on top of it, just plain vanilla FF 2.0 with DOM Inspector and the talkback agent it comes pre-packaged with.

  • Naksujousi

    Onnistuin hankkimaan koneeseeni vakoilu- ja mainosohjelman asentajan, joka ei lähde, ei sitten millään. Oma vikani, mitäs menin avaamaan sen PIF-tiedoston sokkona. Haksahduin siihen, koska luulin sitä kuvatiedostoksi, jollaiseksi se IRC-URLs.netissä oli luokiteltu.

    No, edellisestä Windowsin uudelleenasennnuksesta onkin jo vierähtänyt hyvä tovi. Lähteepähän saman tien kaikki ylimääräinen karsta jota levylle on kertynyt.

    Uusinta Ubuntuakin ajattelin taas kokeilla.

  • Apple: Cool enough for your granny

    According to a report from industry watchers MetaFacts, nearly half of Mac owners are 55 and older – that’s almost double the share for average home-PC users.

    silicon.com via /.

  • WordPress: mass edit 'Allow Pings' fields with SQL

    I’d previously closed pinging for all ancient posts to prevent trackback spam, but after installing Akismet my blogs have ceased to suffer from it, so I decided it was time to re-open them.

    Took me some time to find the appropriate SQL spells, but I finally came across the right ones at WP’s support forums: by applying btvillarin’s SQL instructions I was able to achieve somewhat the reverse of what he was aiming at:

    UPDATE wp_posts
    SET ping_status = "open"
    WHERE ping_status = "closed";

    This causes all posts with their ping status currently closed be changed so that they’re once again open for pings.

    Note that you might have to replace wp_posts in the above with yourtableprefix_posts, in case you have changed the default table prefix.

  • Modifying Firefox's Context Menus

    While I like the Firefox Web browser, there are a few things about it I’d change. For a start, I’d remove the Set As Wallpaper… context menu item. Not only do I never use it, I’d rather not have the option of invoking it by accident. Fortunately, it’s not too hard to change Firefox’s context menus.

    MLI

    I successfully applied this instruction in removing the Send Link… and Send Image… items in addition to the Set As Wallpaper… item mentioned above. After switching to web-based Gmail as my main e-mail client, mistakenly selecting the Send… items became a real nuisance as they triggered loading Thunderbird.

    And now that I’ve done that, I discovered WebmailCompose, which promises to make those items work with webmail such as GMail. Well, I’ll be trying that next… Update: Nope, it doesn’t work with Firefox 2.0 despite that the extensions page claims compatibility with upto 3.0a1. A 1.5 compatible version is available at Jed Brown’s site, but even with that the compatibility issue with 2.0 is not the simple one of replacing the version string inside install.rdf

    (Finnish Firefox note: Yritin etsiä suomenkielisen Firefoxini valikon sisältöä, mutta sitä ei löytänyt yllättäen edes fi.jar-paketin sisällä olevista tiedostoista. Raakasin sitten vain kylmästi sopivalta kuulostavat kohdat browser.xul:sta (browser.jar-paketin sisältä) muistelemalla niiden englanninkielisiä nimiä, ja näkyy toimivan.)

  • Life Goggles online video sharing quality comparison

    Life Goggles via Kasa

  • MPAA Lobbying for Home Theater Regulations

    The MPAA is lobbying congress to push through a new bill that would make unauthorized home theaters illegal. [MPAA head Dan Glickman says] Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn’t give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too.

    BBspot via Vlk

    I damn near fell for it. That’s probably because it’s not so far-fetched that the MPAA would actually do such a thing.

  • Nokia kierrättää WWF:n hyväksi

    “Nokia lahjoittaa 2 € WWF:n ilmastotyön tukemiseen jokaisesta […] kierrätyskuoressa palautetusta Nokia-matkapuhelimesta ja -lisälaitteesta.

    Näin se toimii:

    • Sujauta vanhat Nokia-matkapuhelimesi ja -lisälaitteesi kuoreen
    • Pane kuori postilaatikkoon, postimaksu on jo maksettu
    • WWF:n ilmastotyö saa Nokialta 2 €:n lahjoituksen per puhelin tai lisälaite”

    Nokia via Vlk

  • WordPress and JavaScript links: use Text Control!

    When writing the previous post, WordPress was seriously trying to prevent me from publishing a link with ‘javascript’ as its protocol (<a href=”javascript:the actual JavaScript was here“>…</a>). As publishing that link was, kinda, the point of the post, I had to make it work.

    WordPress Codex’s Using Javascript told me to try a plugin called Text Control, so I installed it, and with No Formatting and No Character Encoding selected, the JavaScript link came to life.