Browser non-issues
This is something that I have known for some time now but I thought I should make a blog post about this because I saw some interesting data in my site analytics.
What’s happening:
- Some visitors on arriving to the site, seem to reload the site twice or even three times.
What I’m pretty sure (quite sure actually) is happening:
- People who are doing this are using Internet Explorer.
Possible reaction after multiple reloads :
“OMFGZ!! THIS BLOG SUCKZ!!! CAN’T DISPLAY IT PROPERLY!!”
Or they just calmly leave. Meh.
What you should do to solve this issue:
Get a better browser.
Names of some awesome browsers (in order of personal preference):
- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Opera
Why are these browsers awesome?
They are standards compatible. They are able to render all HTML4 (even some HTML5!) and CSS3 based web pages properly. This is something that Internet Explorer cannot do.
There are multitudes of other reasons why they are better, but that’s for another blog post.
Can’t you fix your site’s code to work with Internet Explorer?
I can’t since I’m not a web designer. And even if I was able to I wouldn’t.
I hope that clears some things up. Or not since IE users can’t even see this post properly. Talk about irony.
My favorite Firefox add-ons
These are some Firefox add-ons, that I couldn’t do without. If you don’t already use Firefox, I suggest you get it ASAP here:
Here we go:
This addon is a must have for any Firefox user. This amazing add-on block almost any kind of ad, by using a variety of filtering techniques. This add-on is the primary reason I haven’t switched over to Google Chrome instead. The Adblock extension for Chrome is not as good as the one in FF, because it still loads the ads. It just hides them after the page is done loading.
This is a must have add-on for people who love to download files. This add-on makes it very convenient to pause, cancel/stop, monitor downloads from the bottom of your Firefox window.
This is a very useful add-on if you have multiple computers, and would like all your bookmarks to be synced, so you don’t have to worry about different sets of bookmarks on different computers.
The best thing about this add-on is that there are versions for Chrome and Safari (Mac OSX). So you don’t have to worry about bookmarks if you use different browsers for different computers.
This is a very useful add-on if you like to read a lot of content over the internet. This add-on basically serves as a reading list of stuff that you want to read later. As the description says on the website it “eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.”
As the name suggests this add-on, is very useful if you watch a lot of videos over the net. It allows you to save videos from almost any website that use flash video. It also allows to batch download images from a particular images; this function is particularly useful if you are downloading a lot of images from a gallery. It becomes tedious to save all of them manually.
That’s all my favorite add-ons for Firefox.
More useful add-on lists for:
Enjoy!
P.S - If you still use Internet Explorer, WTF are you doing?
about:memory
This is a nifty little trick that allows you to see how much memory Chrome/Firefox is using without going into the Task Manager/Process Monitor.Type in “about:memory”.
Some screenshots:
On Firefox:
On Chrome:
(Click to enlarge image)
Enjoy!
Backup your Firefox profile!
If you are a big fan of Mozilla Firefox like me, you know that Firefox is very customizable. But the downside is that if you somehow lose all your data (virus attack, re-format, new OS install, new PC) you may want to recover these settings.This method backs up your:
- bookmarks
- extensions aka addons
- session backups (especially if you are using TabMix Plus)
- Open Firefox, type this into the address bar - about:support
- After you type that, you get a page called Troubleshooting Information
- Click on “Open Containing Folder”.
- This will up the folder where your Firefox profile is stored.
- Go back to Profiles and copy your profile folder, to wherever you want to back it up.
