helenius

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by helenius 6y ago
Interesting thing about File Explorer is that the 20-year-old APIs for extending it still work! While File Explorer has changed between Windows versions, the underlying Win32 API seems to be the same. A year ago I dove into shell extensions
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by helenius 9y ago
Maybe somewhat related: can anybody guess what the idea behind the images in this article is? <img src="/images/trans.gif" data-src="images/speaking.png"> trans.gif is just a 1x1px invisible p
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by helenius 9y ago
This sounds interesting! Some product _landing_ pages are not readable without Javascript. With this you could at least figure out what the product is about. Once I'm enrolled I can enable Javascript when the product makes use of it. :
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by helenius 9y ago
Friendly reminder to disable Javascript, at the very least, by default. Only run Javascript on domains you really need and trust, and even then the minimum amount required for the site to function. https://github.com/gorhill
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by helenius 9y ago
If you just want a search engine without Javascript try https://duckduckgo.com/html Adding to Firefox is easy via https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-ht...
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by helenius 9y ago
Remember to always (every time) set width/height for the <img> tag, otherwise it will fill the entire screen/container.
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by helenius 9y ago
Not really, just that you need to be crazy enough to write and sync a file instead with e.g. Resilio or Dropbox.
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by helenius 9y ago
If you like syncing files you could look into user.js for syncing config settings: http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file
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by helenius 9y ago
Looks like this needs privacy.resistFingerprinting set in about:config. >I think it's a bad idea to advertise this to the general public, because you have to enable the "privacy.resistFingerprinting" pref for this to work.