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Opera 8.54 don’t show the session restore window

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

One way to disable the Session restore question (after the browser has crashed/been turned off hard) on Opera 8.54 is to delete the files that hold the session data.

DEL /Q "C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\sessions\autosave.win"
DEL /Q "C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\sessions\autosave.win.bak"

This can be scripted together with the launch of the browser so that batch(.bat) file could look like:

DEL /Q "C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\sessions\autosave.win"
DEL /Q "C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\sessions\autosave.win.bak"
"c:\Program Files\opera\opera.exe" %1

note: the %1 means to insert the first argument given to the batch file here. So if this is called “opera.bat” and you would call it with “opera.bat www.f15ijp.com” it would open this url.

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Netscape Navigator 9.0: Don’t show the session restore popup

Saturday, October 8th, 2011

Netscape Navigator 9.0 will promt the user to restore the previous session (pages that were open) if the browser crashed (or was shut down hard/incorrectly).

This can be turned off by going into “about:config” finding the key “browser.sessionstore.resume_from_crash” and setting this to false.

Update: This also applies for the SeaMonkey Browser

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Windows: Don’t update Google Chrome (i.e. disable auto update)

Friday, October 7th, 2011

By default Google Chrome will update to the latest version automatically. It is however possible to disable this and instead update manually (when needed/wanted).

Note: This means you will not get security updates as threats are found and these get fixed – so this might be a bad idea to do if you don’t plan to update manually.

Open up a registry editor and check if the key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update” exists, otherwise create it (the key is the tree structure in regedit).
Now enter a Key name “DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckboxValue ” as a DWORD and give it the value “1″.
This will keep Google Chrome from auto updating.

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lynx make a request to a port

Monday, September 19th, 2011

With lynx it is not hard to reqest a port other than 80.
Simply add :port after the port and before the “/”.

lynx domain:port
lynx http://domain:port/dir

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Opera 9+ don’t show the session restore window

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

To set up Opera so that crash-recovery and splash screens are disabled you can do the following:

On Opera, type opera:config in the url bar to edit configuration.
Modify the configuration:
Recovery Strategy = 0
and
Uncheck Show Problem Dialog

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FireFox 2.x don’t show the session restore window

Monday, July 25th, 2011

When FireFox 2.x came out it was the first version that introduced session restore if the browser crashed (or was shut down hard/incorrectly).

This can be turned off by going into “about:config” finding the key “browser.sessionstore.resume_session” and setting this to false

Also you probably want to check out the startup options under “Tools->Options->When Firefox starts”

(This can also be used to show the session restore window by setting the “browser.sessionstore.resume_session” to true)

Note: This can also be used with Flock versions 2.6.x as that is based on FireFox

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Windows XP: Keep ie6 installed (don’t update ie)

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Keeping Internet Explorer 6 installed and don’t update to a safe (and nice) version.
I only recommend doing this on a machine that should keep Internet Explorer 6 in order to do development testing.

  • Disable Internet Explorer 7 Open up a registry editor and check if the key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Setup\7.0″ exists, otherwise create it (the key is the tree structure in regedit).
    Now enter a Key name “DoNotAllowIE70″ as a DWORD and give it the value “1″.
    This will keep Internet Explorer 8 from installing on this computer.
  • Disable Internet Explorer 8 Open up a registry editor and check if the key “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Setup\8.0″ exists, otherwise create it (the key is the tree structure in regedit).
    Now enter a Key name “DoNotAllowIE80″ as a DWORD and give it the value “1″.
    This will keep Internet Explorer 8 from installing on this computer.

The values mean the following:

  • When the key value name is not defined, distribution is not blocked.
  • When the key value name is set to 0, distribution is not blocked.
  • When the key value name is set to 1, distribution is blocked.

If you need to do this on several computers then you can download Toolkits to do this from Microsoft (warning: read the instructions and verify that you ran it correctly on the first computer you run it on):

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.htaccess to allow google ads (the indexing bot) [or limit user-agents via .htaccess]

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Sometimes there is a need to only allow limit access to a site using a .htaccess file.
If you still wish to be able to serve Google adsense on this page then the following example is good for this (yes the allow line should be changed to suit your needs)

# Google_ads agents
BrowserMatchNoCase Mediapartners-Google good_pass
BrowserMatchNoCase Adsbot-Google good_pass
<LIMIT GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 123.456.789
#Google ads
allow from env=good_pass
</LIMIT>

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Turning off password saving (on a form)

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

If you have a form that you do not wish to use autocompletion for (either you want to disable password auto completion “for real”, or perhaps you have a form where the saved credentials are filled in where they shouldn’t be) then a quick tip to achieve this is to set ‘ autocomplete=”off” ‘ on the form.

<form id="loginForm" action="login.php" method="post" autocomplete="off">

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