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Monday, July 19th, 2010The easiest way to disable flash for testing alternate content!
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009This is something I have constantly wrestled with to find a clear cut answer. Its funny because back in the day I can remember that I had to literally go into my C:\program files and change the name of some .dll, or .exe in order to cancel flash from loading. Adobe/Macromedia were pretty firm on the issue that they don’t want you “disabling” their plugin lol. Then there was an onslaught of plugins for FF, IE, etc that could also do it but none of them worked well. Finally FF was sensable about it and included an easy “disable flash” option which makes things so simple. The problem is that noone seems to know about it lol. So with that said, here’s how to do it!!
1. Here’s my Site!
This is what my Site looks like with flash enabled. Pretty nice huh?
Now lets get rid rid of flash to see what my site looks like on a user’s mobile phone, older computer, or a computer at a business/school/etc that blocks flash all together!
2. Lets get rid of flash for a sec!
To start head to the top of Firefox and find the “tools” menu. From there find “Add-ons” (as shown above) and click it!
3. The “Add-ons” menu!
After you clicked “Add-ons” from the “tools” toolbar you will get this dialog box that pops up. It should pop-up, and be on “extensions.” however we want to go elsewhere, so proceed to the next step!
3. Find the “plugins” section!
As you can see above “highlighted in red” simply click the “plugins” tab and then proceed to the next step! (we are almost done!)
3. Find “ShockWave Flash”!
After you clicked the “plugins” button you will be presented with a lot of different items (more or less depending on what you personally installed). Regardless, the list is in alphabetical order so scroll down to “S” and find “Shockwave Flash” which is “circled in red” above!
3. Disable/Enable Flash!
Finally just click “Disable” to temporarily turn off flash. When you are ready to turn it back on, just press “Enable” and you’ll be able to view any flash content like youtube videos, flash sites, and most importantly facebook’s farmville again lol.
3. Begin testing!
Here is my site with flash turned off. I personally use swfObject 2.0 (I’ll blog about swfObject soon, and why its so good) which presents the alternate content to my users. If they don’t have flash, then they have two options. Either update flash to the current version, or enter my low bandwidth site which doesn’t really require flash for any crucial information!
Have fun and Happy testing!
The easiest way to resize your browser for testing webdesign!
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
The Problem:
I constantly have this problem where I have to resize my browser window to check my sites/designs/etc on multi monitors. Normally I use my nvidia control panel, or just the plain windows display control panel. The problem though is that my monitors are not normal 4:3, I have a 16:9,and a 1:1. Whenever I use the graphic card based resize my monitors freak out and stretch, flicker, and give warnings etc.
The solution?
This awesome browser window resizer plugin for FF. Its so simple and has a variety of sizes:
Supported Resolutions:
640×480
800×600
1024×768
1280×800
1280×1024
1600×1200
Grab it here!
Finally a smart way to check your page in multiple browsers at once!
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Listen, I’m sure that a lot of people who read my blog are webdevelopers…(I know nobody reads my blog lol) so when I bumped into this I literally couldn’t believe what I was seeing. This website called browsershots.org allows you to check a website in so many browers, and OS’s its simply amazing! BEST OF ALL ITS FREE! (You can pay for a priority account though for faster results). Either way definetly take a look at browsershots.org… I’m sure you will find it just as useful as I did.
A look At Google Chrome After the Hype!
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
A bit About Its release – So after a very sudden release of google chrome (via a very creative comicbook release – which is the image above lol), I have had some time to toy around with it and come to some conclusions about it without being caught up with all the hype. I’m going to break this up into three sections… Pros, Cons, and Final review with considerations that you and google should be aware off. In the end I think that we get another player in the deadly browser wars. One that is really going to make a impact on current Internet Explorer and Firefox users, at the very least it will definetly spur some healthy competition between browsers which is great for us all!
Pros- What makes Google Chrome so great?
1. Homepage Helpers –
The most visited website HomePage/Tab is great for speedy browsing and the integrated Google search along with the “recent bookmarks” is very convenient for people who do a daily run of their bookmarks.
2. Trace Monkey -
Google hired a extremely specialized team of coders to create the javascript engine called “Trace Monkey” in google chrome. The end result is the fastest browser around that just zips through the internet.
3. New Tab System –
Improved Tab system that allows a higher resolution of the screen to be shown, and each own has its own processes…So if 1 tab freezes only that tab becomes unstable while the others remain totally fine.
4. Open Source –
Its Google! Therefore its open source! So lets sit back and see what developers can come up with that will improve your browsing experience!
5. ITS ONLY STILL IN BETA! -
Remember Google Chrome is still in Beta – So bugs and tweaks will be polished out soon!
6. Light, Sleek Interface –
Extremely light and simple Interface which anyone could use, Its so stripped down and anyone who’s browser looks like the picture above will be thrilled that its extremely clean and non cluttered.
CONS- What makes Google Chrome A Sad Panda?
1. Nothing Too Ground Breaking -
The most visited HomePage is great and all, but it isn’t all that original… Opera came with this awhile ago, and there are literally dozens of plugins out there for Firefox and internet explorer out there that do the same thing and more! Also its based off of browsing patterns… that means If I wanted to rearrange the sites that I have or remove some I cannot. This may leave some users feeling a little embarassed of there browsing habits when undesired site begin to pop up on the most visted.(porno etc lol) Also the bookmark managing is less than primitive and left me feeling… is this really it?
2. Trace Monkey is the Best… Only right Now though
Although Google Chrome is very fast new data is appearing that shows that the new Firefox engine “V8″that is soon to come out is actually faster than Chrome’s Trace Monkey!
Memory Usage –
We all hate programs that are memory hogs and I personally thought that Firefox was bad, but boy was I wrong! Look at this shot of my PC processes, it shows 5 multiple processes for google chrome. Thats 2 processes for every tab I open and a updater! Firefox only has 2 processes as the most no matter how many tabs I open up, however what google chrome gains with this is if one tab crashes the rest of them don’t. (But with tab recovery who cares?)
4. No Plugin Support –
Although Google is so open source there is one huge thing that amazed me about Google Chrome. NO PLUGINS! Plugins are essential to all modern programs, I simply cannot see anyone completely satisfied with the way Google chrome is right now….Its simply not ENOUGH! What plugins allow programs to do is give the power back to the people, and let them fill their needs way better, and way faster than solid 1.2, 1.3, etc releases based on user input ever could!
5. Peeping Google -more like peeing on your right to privacy? AMIRITE?
After a week or so after the launch, wild rumors about google collecting data about your browsing habits began to surface. After looking into many of them, I can say that this is kind of true. Google chrome’s TOS allows it to follow your browsing history and create a rich profile about you that is used to send advertisements to you via adwords, and can be sent (i.e. sold) to other companies, which is quite frankly BS.
SUMMARY – THE BOTTOMLINE
Google Chrome is still in Beta, so we must give it a chance to fully bloom. However what Google Chrome has shown thus far is still quite amazing and in time may capture a large portion of Internet Explorer users and even FireFox users if they play their cards right. I think Its safe to say though that it needs to address the issues at hand properly, or it may just be dismissed by many who won’t care enough to switch over from FireFox, Opera, or Internet Explorer.
In the end I think I personally felt like, “This is it? Thats all?” from Chrome’s release but hopefully with some plugin support, and a rumored change in the TOS I will feel much more comfortable with google chrome. For now I’m stick with Firefox thank you!
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I lol’d at this when I uninstalled chrome!
