Posts tagged with:chrome

A weird thing happened a few months back: a developer deleted an extension i was using from the Chrome Webstore because he broke up with his girlfriend. Yes, that was a reason. So that made me think i wanted an extension that will include some of the functionalities i use every day that will not […]

There’s a lot of chatter on Lifehacker and Gizmodo about how Chrome sucks and how it’s bloated and slow and Firefox is so much better because nobody remembers how slow Firefox used to be. The thing is, every browser is slow when u are using it for a long time. And since we do a […]

Yoast SEO plugin does a good job at cleaning out garbage added at the end of urls. You know, the kind of garbage Facebook and Feedburner spit out: http://dorinlazar.ro/orice-hirtie-cere-statul-plus/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FlyOnTheWindscreen-Full+%28Fly+on+the+Windscreen+All+blog+posts%29 The problem is not the ugly url, but the fact that sometimes it breaks twitter or ym or other service I try to send the link […]

One of my biggest annoyances is that Gmail has not one font to use in the email body. People write with black, with blue, with Sans Serif, with Tahoma, with Arial, and the emails are looking bad all the time. Uniformity would be good in this case. It really would. I searched userscripts.org for a […]

A 17-year old coder is launching a chrome extension to filter out from my personal twitter stream all the references to my favorite shows, so I can’t see the spoilers in case I miss an episode. How it works is I write in the extensions all the tv shows I will probably miss and then […]

This morning my Google Reader started acting weird. It was loading just one item from every folder, even though the folder had numerous items. I have blocked cookies from every site and, upon further investigation, noticed a site name superfish.com trying to plant a cookie. I don’t visit superfish and I thought it was 3rd […]

There is a well knoww issue that Chrome is not blocking video ads inside videos, even if the adblock rules state the video ad should be blocked. And I am not talking about YouTube videos, either. I have found a workaround for those intrusive autoplay non-skipable videos that some sites use. It requires some work, […]

I wish i said i am using my new macbook air, but i am not. I am enjoying my new sony vaio y series, the closest thing to a macbook. I really wanted to get one, i love the design, the simplicity, the features, but i couldn’t. The OS is too limited for my taste. […]