When I am using Firefox or Palemoon, its pretty typical to have 10-20 tabs opened at one time. If the number of opened tabs are small, the browsing across tabs is pretty easy. However, if the number of tabs are large, it becomes a pain if you need to go back and forth across tabs. Following are the keyboard shortcuts which immensely help improve productivity while working with Firefox . photo credit: dimnikolov Ctrl-1 – This takes you to the first tab that you have opened ( the leftmost tab….. Read More
Using Firefox On Windows? Try Palemoon
By On March 5, 2011 Leave a Comment 74 views
Firefox was the first browser which redefined the way we look at browsers. Till that time IE was enjoying a free run in the browser market and was the default choice of many and all. Firefox brought with itself customization in the form of extensions and themes which took the browser experience to the next level. photo credit: Mozilla India However, one tag the Firefox has hardly been able to get rid off is that it is heavy weight. Not in the sense that it is slower to use or….. Read More
Find DoFollow And NoFollow Links On Any WebPage
By On August 24, 2010 6 Comments 382 views
NoFollow and DoFollow links are used for instructing search engines as to whether a hyperlink should influence the target link’s ranking in the search engine indexing algorithm or not. From SEO and page rank perspective, if you have dofollow back links from high page rank sites, then it automatically increases your credibility in the eyes of the search engine and vice versa. We had talked about these links in context of anchor text earlier as well. Considering the importance of these links, it will be very useful if there is….. Read More
ActionController Invalid Authenticity Token Solution For Using Ajax On Rails
By On July 27, 2010 Leave a Comment 623 views
The other day I was trying to run Ajax with Rails and a very simple pop-up invocation started failing when I used it with prototype.js. Basically I wanted that when a link object is clicked, it pops up a message from the browser using Ajax. Essentially <OnSuccess> was intended to create this pop-up which was not appearing. So I changed <OnSuccess> to <OnFailure> to figure out the reason of failure and discovered the error [ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken] was causing the problem. This was strange since the non prototype.js counterpart code was working….. Read More
How to Identify Font Used In Text Of A Website
By On July 21, 2010 Leave a Comment 2,933 views
As a blogger, you would like to use the best of available fonts on your website which enhance visitor readership experience. Many a times, you might visit a website and like the font of the text on the web pages. You might like to experiment with the same font on your own web pages and start using it going forward if you like the same. One of the tools that is extremely handy to identify font from text of a web page is the firefox extension called font finder. It….. Read More
How To Install Ruby On Rails Server On Ubuntu
By On July 17, 2010 4 Comments 541 views
The other day I wanted to setup ruby on rails server on Ubuntu for some experimentation. After some trial and error and a few google searches – I was able to get the server running on Ubuntu. Following are the steps that worked for me on Ubuntu 10.04 Step 1 – Install ruby Ruby is the object oriented language based on which the web framework called rails has been built. sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential Step 2 – Check ruby installation ruby -v ruby -ropenssl -rzlib -rreadline -e “puts :Hello”….. Read More
Decode Short URL By Right Click Using TheRealURL
By On June 23, 2010 Leave a Comment 145 views
URL Shortening has become a necessity with the advent of social media like twitter. Most of the times, you end up dealing with short URLs which link you to the required actual address. However, at times you might like to know the actual link behind the short URL before deciding to click it. The reasons could include suspicion of malicious link, spam and so on. One service which enables to achieve this with just a matter of click is TheRealURL. Essentially it can be used as an extension with firefox/chrome….. Read More
Create Sub Tabs In Your Browser Using ShareTabs
By On June 22, 2010 Leave a Comment 212 views
Today, all modern browsers( eg Firefox/IE/Chrome ) offer tabbed browsing using which you can view multiple web pages in the same browser window. However, if you have a large number of tabs opened, you can only view a subset of them and need to scroll the tab bar to view/access rest of the tabs. Also most of the times, the opened tabs can be identified in a set of categories eg TechMeme, TechCrunch, GigaOm are all technology related sites. So having a sub-tab kind of mechanism would be useful where….. Read More
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