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General

  • BrowserFame is a website dedicated to browsers, web apps, internet trends, HTML5 and related stuff.

Bookmarklet to launch site without tabs or bookmarks. Hiding the address bar is forbidden due to anti-phishing.

javascript:window.open(location.href, "detab", "toolbar=0")


Services

  • Xmarks - bookmarks (and tab) sync (and web access)

Bookmarklets



javascript:%28function%28s%29%7Btry%7Bs=document.selection.createRange%28%29.text%7Dcatch%28_%29%7Bs=document.getSelection%28%29%7Dprompt%28%27MediaWiki Copy%27,%27%5Cn%2A %5B%27+location+%27 %27+document.title+%27%5d - %27+s+%27%5Cn%27%29%7D%29%28%29
  # MediaWiki copy title/url/selected text

Readability


Chrome

Internals

Shift+ESC
  process manager
  • chrome://version
  • chrome://net-internals
  • chrome://flags (or about:flags)

Cache

Files are cached with weird names. To find, say PDFs:

find ~/.cache/google-chrome -type f -exec file {} + | grep PDF

Chromium


Keyboard control

Ctrl+PgUp
  tab left
Ctrl+PgDown
  tab right
middle click
  open link in new tab
Ctrl+Shift+N
  open link in new tab and follow
Ctrl+L
  Highlights the URL.
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+E
  Places a '?' in the address bar. Type a search term after the question mark to perform a search using your default search engine.

Multiple profiles

Two methods; multiple browser profiles, and multiple users.

browser profiles;

multiple user accounts;

Vimium

u
  half-page up
d
  half-page down

J/L
  tab left/right

Webkit

Dev Tools

chrome://inspect/

Introductions

I/O videos;

Guides

Extensions

To sort

Mobile

Extensions


  • Fauxbar - Fauxbar makes Chrome's New Tab page act like Firefox's Awesome Bar. Needs a fast PC!

Media

  • FlashBlock - replace flash items with confirm load button



Security

Productivity





History

Development

  • NOREF suppress link referrer info (for dev2prod links)

Themes


Accessibility

Site specific

  • ModHeader - use "X-Forwarded-For" & "12.13.14.15" to view daily show content
  • YTshowRating - adds rating bars to related videos for avoiding crap


Firefox

Plugins

Themes

Development

Firebug

Tools Adaptor

Security

Sync




Other

Nightly

Future

Is now called Firefox OS

  • Servo - Gecko engine replacement, written in Rust

Safari

Opera

Internet Explorer / Edge


Console

Links

Lynx


Lightweight GUI

  • NetSurf Web Browser - Small as a mouse, fast as a cheetah and available for free. NetSurf is a multi-platform web browser for RISC OS, UNIX-like platforms (including Linux), Mac OS X, and more. Whether you want to check your webmail, read the news or post to discussion forums, NetSurf is your lightweight gateway to the world wide web. Actively developed, NetSurf is continually evolving and improving.


  • Zetakey - Enable embedded device with latest HTML5 browser. It is a Webkit-based browser solution that offers HTML5 compliance, high-performance browser for Embedded Linux, Windows CE 5/6, Compact 7 and Windows Mobile.













  • vimb - a fast and lightweight vim like web browser based on the webkit web browser engine and the GTK toolkit. Vimb is modal like the great vim editor and also easily configurable during runtime. Vimb is mostly keyboard driven and does not detract you from your daily work. If your are familiar with vim or have some experience with pentadactyl the use of vimb would be a breeze, if not we missed our target.






Other

Extensions




User scripts

Usage

Capabilities

Java