How to create a transparent webm file using ffmpeg ffmpeg -i "transparent.gif" -c:v libvpx -qmin 0 -qmax 18 -crf 9 -b:v 1400K -quality good -cpu-used 0 -auto-alt-ref 0 -pix_fmt yuva420p -an -sn -metadata title="Transparent Webm." "Transparent.webm"ffmpeg -i "transparent.gif" -c:v libvpx -qmin 0 -qmax 18 -crf 9 -b:v 1400K -quality good -cpu-used 0 -auto-alt-ref 0 -pix_fmt … Read more
How to test a responsive web design with Firefox If you press Ctrl->Shift->m when viewing a website, it will be switched to a mobile view that allows you to see what the website looks like at various mobile resolutions. I found this out by accident. But this is a very cool Firefox trick. This makes … Read more
The Windows in an Xorg session may easily be manipulated with this simple utility. Xdotool. This is a terminal utility to manage Xorg windows. Firstly, install this simple utility. jason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt install xdotooljason@jason-desktop:~$ sudo apt install xdotool Then we can resize a MATE Terminal window. xdotool search –onlyvisible –classname "gnome-terminal" windowsize %@ 500xdotool search … Read more
The current version of Firefox 55 broke uBlock Origin. To get it working again, install the version of uBlock from the development channel. Scroll down the bottom of this page and select the development channel button. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/?src=ss. This gets it working again instantly. This is the thing with free software, it gets a lot of … Read more
Speed up and tweak Firefox with these tipsSpeed up the Firefox browserDisable Firefox telemetry Speed up and tweak Firefox with these tips Speed up the Firefox browser I had problems with Firefox being slow on Facebook, but this tip has helped. Go to about:config and search for this value. dom.storage.enableddom.storage.enabled Change this to false and … Read more
To open the Firefox developer tools, press Ctrl-Shift-K. This is good if you have Firebug installed, as F12 will open it instead. To take a full-page screenshot of a web site, press Shift-F2 and then type this command and hit press ENTER. screenshot –fullpagescreenshot –fullpage This will be saved in the ~/Downloads folder by default. … Read more
Youtube lately has been buffering extremely slowly. This is due to an unknown cause at Googles end. I can try to watch a 480p video on Youtube and it will take ages to buffer; but if I go to Vimeo; a HD video will load instantly and buffer with lightning speed. I wish that Vimeo … Read more
If you have two Firefox windows open you may drag the tab from one window onto the new tab window on the other window and the tab will be added to the second Firefox window. Do not install the Facebook dislike extension for Google Chrome. I installed that and I got some adware in my browser. … Read more
A new zero-day exploit in the wild that targets the Internet Explorer 9.0 and earlier releases is making the rounds. This is another reason to not depend on closed source software if you can help it. I have tried running Windows 8 and then Windows 7 exclusively the last few days and it was not … Read more
Good Firefox 11.0 setup for safer web browsing. The Firefox web browser truly is a very good and safe browser for everyday use, but with the addition of some extensions, the browsing experience can be made even more secure. Firstly, the Noscript extension is the best and most useful extension for blocking web scripts that … Read more
These are the cookies stored on my machine that Facebook has stored on my computer without me knowing. This happens because a website has put the Facebook Like button on their page, then Facebook can track you and see what browsing you are doing after you leave your Facebook session. There is a good article … Read more
China are still using the venerable and dust covered Internet Explorer 6.0 browser even after all of this time, I guess the great firewall of China and the censorship in the communist regime precludes any real advancement in software updates in that country. But Windows XP is ten years old and well past it`s use … Read more
I am just testing the website again in Internet Explorer 8.0. The drop shadows on the DIV layers does not work, but everything else seems to be all good, IE 8.0 is about the lowest version that will still work with my website, some of my visitors still use Internet Explorer 6.0; that will not … Read more
From Slashdot: “A Microsoft executive late Thursday used the furor over Mozilla’s decision to curtail support for Firefox 4 to plead the case for Internet Explorer in the enterprise. ‘I think I speak for everyone on the IE team when I say we’d like the opportunity to win back your business,’ Ari Bixhorn, director of … Read more
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Firefox-5-Final-for-Linux-207133.shtml The fifth edition of the best web browser out there, Firefox has hit version number 5 bringing new features to the table; CSS animation being one feature that will either be a good or bad thing depending on the utilisation, many stability enhancements and location aware browsing.Here is a list of the new features … Read more