If you want to print a web page, one of the most difficult thing is to make it fit well into an A4 page.

All the figures and ads that you don't want to print take useful space in the "real" page.

With the Firefox addon Nuke Anything Enhanced you can gradually remove the various objects present in your screen that you don't want to show up in the printed version.

An Example:

• Before Nuke:



• After Nuke:

As my Eeepc has a really slow SSD drive, here is a little trick I do to speed up the sqlite databases firefox uses. The perfomance gain isn't amazing, but it is better than nothing.

cd $HOME
cd .mozilla
find . -name \*.sqlite -exec sqlite3 {} vacuum \;

Today I was hearing Steve Gibson's podcast, Security Now, which was about the new Internet Explorer 8.

And I'm truly amazed. Finally there is one feature in an IE that I wish to see on Firefox.

The url bar of IE 8 highlights the domain part of the URL. The letters of the top domain are black, while the rest of the URL is a light gray.

This helps the user to identify what is the site that he is visiting, and is a first barrier against phishing attacks.

I've never though I would say this: Good idea Microsoft!

Now it's just wait for Firefox implement it also.

Just a small note: I only have linux so I can't try IE8. The image of the url bar was stolen from this site.

Update: It's already on Firefox. Thanks to Ben McDonald for the comment.

The Locationbar2 extension does exactly this functionality. Checkout out the image:

Hurray for free software!

There are several online services that allow you to make long URLs shorter (Tyni.cc, SnipUrl, TinyURL). This is extremely useful for posting in micro-blogging sites like Twitter.com, Identi.ca or Plurk where you have a limited number of characters to write.

Yesterday I've discovered Spedr.com and found it to be great. The big difference that distinguishes it from the other services is the great firefox plugin. It creates a small icon in the URL bar and when you want to shorten the URL just click it.

Long URL:

The small URL (after you click the lightning icon)

The contrary operation also works.