To use localStorage in Firefox cookies must be allowed

In case a JavaScript generates a security error in Firefox when using localStorage, I found the advice to make sure the about:config property dom.storage.enabled to true.

But this is not enough! localStorage is only available if cookies are allowed for the domain that serves the web page with the script.

I find this strange, cookies are completely different things.

Even geen Flash gebruiken

Het beste maar even geen Flash gebruiken vanwege een lek in de player. Gelukkig heb ik de Flashblock add-on in Firefox geïnstalleerd. Deze handige add-on voorkomt dat filmpjes vanzelf beginnen te spelen, wat sowieso al fijn is, ook al is er geen gevaar.

Digg enhancer Greasemonkey script

Everytime I looked at Digg it bothered me that the boxes with the number of diggs in front of each news item overlaps with a the start of the text.

So I made a litte Greasemonkey script that move the text to the right. And at the same time it removes the upper limit of the page width, so there’s less space wasted on the sides of the pages.

Installation

1. This script requires Greasemonkey, so if you don’t have that installed do that first.
2. Install Digg enhancer.

Fighting Flash with Firefox

Firefox, my browser of choice, does not show Flash content with the default installation, but you can easily download Flash support and it will show up. But do you want it to show up? For nearly all of the the sites I visit I don’t, because the Flash movies are only annoying.

So, until recently I didn’t install the Flash support which meant I regularly got a little toolbar notifying me I was missing some content. If I suspected it was something I really wanted to see I switched to Internet Explorer. By the way, the Firefox IE view extension makes switching very easy by adding a ‘View This Page in IE’ option to the right-click menu.

But I finally installed the Flash extension, because using IE became more and more frustrating, missing things like the Ctrl-click to open a link in a new tab and search-as-you-type. Not long after I installed Flash support, sites I thought I knew suddenly showed blinking ads and other distracting messages never visible before.

What I wanted was to get rid of the Flash garbage but still have the ability to view it if I wanted. So I did some searching and found FlashBlock, an extension that replaces all Flash content on a page with a icon to that will show the Flash content when clicked. Now I’m in charge again.