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Firefox Update 3.5.2

lopau — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:26:38 +0000

Well I opened up FireFox today and another patch has been released which fixes the following vulnerabilities

MFSA 2009-46 Chrome privilege escalation due to incorrectly cached wrapper
MFSA 2009-45 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.9.1.2/1.9.0.13)
MFSA 2009-44 Location bar and SSL indicator spoofing via window.open() on invalid URL
MFSA 2009-38 Data corruption with SOCKS5 reply containing DNS name longer than 15 characters

FireFox 3.5 Upgrade

lopau — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:44:33 +0000

It’s official FireFox 3.5 is out and it’s the faster than ever. 10 times faster than FireFox 2 and twice faster than FireFox 3. Improved page rendering and layout engine making faster than previous versions. Best off all my add-ons from FireFox 3 works without a glitch.

Download it now

CTRL + W on Firefox

lopau — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:00:59 +0000

Found a irritating bug on Firefox, while studying Flex I made Firefox my default browser. So when I run my application it loads on Firefox. But it seems like for sites rendered in flash, the keyboard shortcut CTRL + W for closing tabs doesn’t work. File – Close Tab menu though works. So I have to manually x out to close the tab. Would be great if this bug was solved specially for Flex developers using Firefox.

WordPress Firefox add-ons for screen capture

lopau — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:53:08 +0000

Recently I needed a screen capture addon for Firefox for a WordPress project I was working on. What I needed was an easy way to capture a screen then save the screenshot easily without using Photoshop or Paint for the task. I then have to upload the capture to my wordpress post.

I found out Fireshot Pro to do what I needed, it offers more than the usual screen capture for it has an option to save, upload and edit the screenshot with the built in editing tools. So far so good but seems this takes several steps. Just when I was about to live on and use it for my project, I found another tool that simplifies the task further. This has got to be the best addon for WordPress, it is specifically created to work for wordpress. Currently it is experiemental but it works great. Screen Grab for WordPress.

With this addon I was able to capture a screenshot of the page I want and can do a selection. The best thing is that it allows posting to your WordPress using XML-RPC.

What is XML-RPC? From wiki pedia It is a remote procedure call protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.

4 things I needed to do to get setup.

1. Download the addon and restart Firefox

2. Go to Tools and choose Addons, select Screen Grab, then hit Options, Setup the blog details, fill in the blog URL, username and password. Cool thing is it allows adding multiple blogs.

3. Next signed in to your admin in WordPress. I went to settings then Reading, checked the option Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols then save.

4. With that option enabled, when using Screen Grab for WordPress, simply right click on a page then choose Screen Grab! With Online Upload, then select either Save, Copy or Post. I used Post then Selection and select the image or text I wanted to capture and use in my blog post. After that select the blog where to post to. It automatically generates the post and uploaded the image to my upload folder plus generated a title for my post.

It made my wordpress project site a breeze to update. Hope you find it useful too.

Are you suffering from GASS?

lopau — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:44:09 +0000

Are you suffering from G.A.S.S.? Yep seems to be viral and it affects the user and not the computer, hehe. GASS( Google Adsense Stats Syndrome) some smart people from the forums coined up the term. It is when you are constantly checking your Adsense Stats as in every 15 mins, every hour etc.. Its like an OC. We all know how it feels to see your earnings rise in the Adsense program and it is very addicting. Constantly checking can be counter productive. You could have finished some other more important stuffs.

If you are using Firefox here are some useful extensions that can automate that task for you.

MoneyQuake – Moneyquake is a extension, which displays your real-time earning statistics from most popular advertisement systems (like AdSense etc)

Adsense Notifier – Displays your Adsense earnings on the statusbar.

Adsense Earnings – Shows how much you have earned from adsense today.