Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
May 26, 2014
I came across this informative, dated, but still valid, article today, with simple instructions of how to disable geolocation when using Firefox • Type ‘about:config’ in the address bar without the ‘ ’ • Discard the warning by hitting ‘yes’ •Scroll down until you reach ‘geo.enabled’ or you can simply search for ‘geo.enabled‘ • Doubleclick the item and it will change from its default value ‘True’ to ‘False’ • Scroll…
August 18, 2013
Here’s a list of firefox (you are using firefox arn’t you?) plugins, that were shared on Reddit, to help keep your browsing more secure and anonymous. I already used a few of them, but in this day and age you can’t be too careful 😉 Adblock (with the privacy easylist added) Annoyed by adverts? Troubled by tracking? Bothered by banners? Install Adblock Plus now to regain control of the internet…
February 6, 2012
I can’t believe it took me so long to find GreaseMonkey, from Greasepot: Greasemonkey is a user script manager. It is an extension for the Firefox web browser. So what does it do? It adds user created functionality to the web sites you use. Very easy to use: install the firefox plugin search userscripts.org click install The 1st script I tried deleted all of my 6 months posts on Reddit.…
June 22, 2011
… the turntables 🙂 But in browser terms, for a long time it’s been Mozilla’s Firefox. So while listening to the above mix (dj masturbation), here’re the destructions to install the latest (html5 capable!) Firefox 5 to Ubuntu