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helenius

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    Comment #23497727

    Interesting thing about File Explorer is that the 20-year-old APIs for extending it still work! While File Explorer has changed between Windows versions, the underlying Win32 API s…

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    Comment #16346711

    Maybe somewhat related: can anybody guess what the idea behind the images in this article is? trans.gif is just a 1x1px invisible pixel.

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    Comment #16305095

    This sounds interesting! Some product _landing_ pages are not readable without Javascript. With this you could at least figure out what the product is about. Once I'm enrolled I ca…

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    Comment #16076539

    Friendly reminder to disable Javascript, at the very least, by default. Only run Javascript on domains you really need and trust, and even then the minimum amount required for the …

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    Comment #15896641

    If you just want a search engine without Javascript try https://duckduckgo.com/html Adding to Firefox is easy via https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-ht...

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    Comment #15781333

    Remember to always (every time) set width/height for the tag, otherwise it will fill the entire screen/container.

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    Comment #15699078

    Not really, just that you need to be crazy enough to write and sync a file instead with e.g. Resilio or Dropbox.

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    Comment #15698117

    If you like syncing files you could look into user.js for syncing config settings: http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file

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    Comment #15584241

    Looks like this needs privacy.resistFingerprinting set in about:config. >I think it's a bad idea to advertise this to the general public, because you have to enable the "privacy.re…