Last night I finally figured out why Amazon wouldn’t let me view inside books, it was because I still had HTTPS everywhere enabled for amazon. It’s a neat idea to force your web session secure for sites that support it, but don’t make it easy. Good in theory… in practice not so much.
When I finally figured out that it attempted to work with Amazon I noticed that I had disabled all the sites I actually use in the tool. Twitter is rediculously slow under https, like 1 minute to load a page slow. Google images aren’t searchable under https, so you don’t see it on the sidebar as an option. Some of the facebook javascript wasn’t fetchable over https. Wikipedia inbound search from google doesn’t work if it’s enabled.
It makes me wonder what part of the internet is used by the folks writing this addon, because it doesn’t seem to be the same part that I’m using.
Github is great, I really can’t say enough good things about them. What’s not so great is their css, as it breaks badly if you change you dpi. I finally found the root cause of this which is the search field gets squeezed vertically, and collides with the div under it, forcing that to the right, and forcing the right sidebar down. I sent in some feedback, but am not sure if/when it might get applied.
So, in the short term I added the following greasemonkey script for github.com
function addGlobalStyle(css) {
var head, style;
head = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)[0];
if (!head) { return; }
style = document.createElement(‘style’);
style.type = ‘text/css’;
style.innerHTML = css;
head.appendChild(style);
}
addGlobalStyle(‘#header .topsearch {width: 25em}’);
And voila, the site is readable again.
On May 4, 2006 · Comments Off
I really wish that Firefox set WM_URGENT when a new tab or window loaded. I need to look into what it would take to make that happen, as my use of Ion would end up being nirvana after that. Click on a link in an application Mod-k k, read the link, Mod-k k back to where you were. I spent a bunch of time on google looking for tihs one, and failed, which isn’t promissing. In my copious spare time, I’ll have to look into this one more.
