New problem this, and it took some google-fu to find out a solution. I recently upgraded Iceweasel (the unbranded Firefox) on my Debian Jessie to the latest beta. I use xmonad as my windowmanager.After the upgrade it was impossible to make HTML5 video go fullscreen. In fact F11 had stopped working …

Today, something of a rant. Or at least a reminder to myself not to do something that I do all too often. You see, I keep tabs open in my browser. Sometimes for weeks on end. Why, I don’t know, at least on a rational level. Whenever I try to close a tab, I get an overpowering sense of panic. …

Since version 23, Firefox has started blocking mixed content — pieces of an HTML page that are delivered over an insecure, unencrypted connection when browsing an SSL-encrypted page. Now this is probably the right thing to do. Most of the time. And there is a subtle little shield thingum …

Since version 13 of Firefox and Iceweasel, it does an annoying thing when you open a new tab. It shows you thumbnails of the sites you’ve visited the most. How very chrome. And how frankly depressing. I don’t want to be reminded, Firefox! Fortunately it isn’t too big a d …

Here is a small annoyance with an easy solution. The newer versions of Firefox and Iceweasel have added an inspect element tool to the right click context menu. It certainly look very pretty and will be of use for some folks. But its confusing for people like me who use Firebug. You see Firebug …

I don't know if you heard about it but Fabrice Bellard recently made a Javascript PC emulator that could boot a full linux with emacs and vi and even a c compiler. Which is insane. I wanted to check it out, but the core Iceweasel on Debian Squeeze (3.5) isn't up to the job, Fabrice has coded it t …

Activists and other people are frequently targetted for surveillance by power in its various forms - governments, police, media and corporate power. Increasingly this surveillance takes place on line. And so it makes sense to set up your firefox browser to be as resistent as possible to such surve …

I’m a huge fan of the Vimperator Firefox plugin. It works just like you'd want it to and doesn't break much. Well, it breaks one useful thing, which is the almost universal ctrl-c/ctrl-v cut and paste shortcuts. So, I was well chuffed to find a Vimperator cut and paste tip on superuser. I̵ …

NOTE Google changed the gmail API some time ago. I haven't been able to suss out how and they haven't documented it. So I’m no longer able to support this project. My apologies.This Greasemonkey script hides the right hand side ads on gmail and widens the email bit. You'll need to install …

I wanted to learn how to write a firefox extension. This is it! Spinal Text - an extension to turn your text up to ELEVEN! It won't work on all pages, after all its just a learning project. I’ll probably redo it properly one day! WTF? see the Spinal Tap fan site …