Posted by hank, Fri Jul 04 00:26:00 UTC 2008
The new July 2nd version of Flash Player 10 for Linux finally fixes the HTML overlay bug that we’ve been seeing for years. You can now see things on top of the flash elements on the page, like so:
After trying it with YouTube and TheSixtyOne, and seeing some lame bugs, I decided to go back to Flash 9 and face the music on overlays.
Posted by hank, Mon May 26 19:52:00 UTC 2008
I decided after reading this article, I decided to try out SWFDec instead of Adobe Flash Player. I shied away from Gnash early on since it didn’t support many newer features of Flash, and it didn’t work with YouTube. But, apparently, SWFDec works with YouTube (I just tried it), and according to the article above, my browser may use less resources now. We’ll see.
Well, it turns out it crashes on my TheSixtyOne player on the right! Time to try Gnash…
Experiment over. The OSS Flash solutions completely fail at playing the flash audio on the right. Once they get just a little more compatible, I’ll try again.
Posted by hank, Wed Jan 09 02:00:00 UTC 2008
I got tired of not having my greasy friend around, so I changed the rdf file to work for all versions of Firefox 3. Here’s the result:
Posted by hank, Thu Oct 25 20:30:00 UTC 2007
So, I though it would be interesting to mimic browser behavior with error pages. I decided I needed to make a page that looked exactly like the Firefox Server-not-found page. I managed to copy the source using Firebug, and I extracted the css out of the jar files on my system. Anyway, I ended up with some source for IE and some source for Firefox.
I left little invisible links in each one (search for ‘Supplies’ on the page). I also removed all the default javascript from the Firefox version and replaced the Try Again action with a simple reload one-liner.
Then, I just wrote some awesome PHP to take care of which one to load, and called it index.php:
<?php
if (preg_match('/MSIE/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
readfile("errortest-ie.html");
} else {
readfile("errortest-ff.html");
}
?>
And we’re done. Not bad, eh?
Posted by hank, Thu Sep 06 18:38:00 UTC 2007
So Citibank is lame - they don’t think that Firefox in Linux is a supported browser, but seem to believe that it is under Windows and OSX. Well, good thing we have Greasemonkey around.
// ==UserScript== // @name Citibank Continue // @namespace http://www.ralree.info // @description Makes the Citibank browser warning page go away // @include https://web.da-us.citibank.com/cgi-bin/citifi/portal/l/l.do // ==/UserScript== document.getElementsByTagName('input')[0].click;
Get it here. As you can see above, it does nothing dangerous. Just clicks the damn button for you so you never have to see the unsupported browser screen again.
Posted by hank, Fri Jul 27 08:13:00 UTC 2007
Well, we went to the firefox party:
It was pretty cool - we got some swag and stuffs.
Posted by hank, Wed Apr 04 07:27:00 UTC 2007
OK - a little history. I wanted to write this extension some time ago, but couldn’t figure out how to make it work. Apparently, someone has spent the time to find out, and now I have to tear apart the code to find out how they did this. Anyway, this allows you to sign and encrypt any text in Firefox using GPG. It rocks. You can use the options dialog to select the private key to use. It also has support for GMail integration using little buttons instead of the right-click menu which is always available. Here’s a preview:
Posted by hardwarehank, Tue Oct 24 15:50:00 UTC 2006
So, I was annoyed about these things:
So I fixed them all like this:
Now it’s all back to normal.
Posted by hardwarehank, Tue Oct 24 15:13:44 UTC 2006
I updated the TinyURL plugin for Firefox to support 2.0 since the author capped the version in the install.rdf at 1.5. It’s available here. HORRAY!
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