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Feb 16 2010

Added a page with my recommended IE addons

The same that I have a page listing my recommended/favourite Firefox addons , I think it was time to do the same with Internet Explorer and provide a small list of useful addons (mostly for development/design). Quite small right now, but if I find other...
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Apr 05 2009

Zero-cost PHP debugging and testing environment

One of the nice things of developing in Linux-oriented scenarios (although I use Windows }:) is having free tools that sometimes shine for their quality. Leaving apart the decision of the PHP IDE (there are a great range of both free and commercial ones...
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Mar 24 2009

Kartones.Net: Search engine working on IE8 and Chrome!

Few months ago, I created a custom search provider for this community, working both under Firefox and under Internet Explorer 7. Today, while toying with Internet Explorer 8, I found something interesting: Without touching anything, IE8 treats all search...
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Nov 20 2008

Tuning ASP.NET applications performance

One of my defects is that I always think there's room for improvement in everything. But time (and budget) is limited, so we always have to evaluate and decide when to stop improving to move to the next feature. This is why Service Packs and revisíons...
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Oct 08 2008

Hacks: Tweak Firefox User Agent string [UPDATED]

Are you tired of finding lots of google results of webpages that when entered require you to register to view the solution? Most of that sites do dirty tricks: They check the requesting User Agent, to allow search robots/crawlers to see the full contents...
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Jul 25 2008

Creating custom search providers for Firefox and IE7

Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 use search providers based on the OpenSearch 1.1 specification . This means that anyone can develop their custom providers and add them to their browsers. So, I've learned a bit of how to create them and created one...
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Jun 21 2008

Updated to Firefox 3

Well, after some initial testing (basically installing FFX 3 on a VM before replacing the real one), I've moved to Firefox 3.0. It's been not very painful, but I had to search for a few "3.0 betas" of some addons, plus I've lost...
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Apr 10 2008

Installed Firefox Addons

I've added a new link at the left to a list of the Firefox addons I've actually got installed . Every one has a small description of what it does (to save you extra clicks ;) I'll keep it updated, and you can leave comments of what ones you...
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Sep 12 2007

Tweaking Firefox

Today I'm a bit tired so the selected topic is "Tweaking", in this case the Firefox browser. Firefox is my favourite browser, but sometimes it takes too much RAM (more than 150 MB), and as I'm a bit maniac about computer performance...
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Mar 07 2007

Firekeeper: A browser IDS/IPS for Firefox

The Mozilla development group has released an alpha version of Firekeeper , a browser IDS / IPS that secures user browsing by detecting, warning and blocking browser based attack attempts. It scans HTTP/HTTPS response headers, body and URLs, and has a...
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