Alvin Poh’s Blog

How To Select Columns of Text in Your Browser (FireFox)

This is a neat trick for copying columns of text from a table into some other application. This is particularly useful when you don’t need the whole table of information, and just want one column or several columns (e.g. just the usernames from a list of members). I haven’t tried it on other browsers, but it [...]

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How To Remove Speed Download Plugin From FireFox on the Mac

I was using jDownloader for the Mac and while it was great software, it was coded in Java, making it non-native. I don’t mind the interface being different, but the start-up time was incredible slow. So I tried out Speed Download to see if it was good, and I have to say that it [...]

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Firefox for the Mac (Snow Leopard) is horribly SLOW

I’ve been a huge Firefox fan, and used it almost exclusively, but recently, it’s been more of a resource hog than anything. It’s gotten so bad that my entire Mac’s slowed down because of Firefox. Sometimes, CPU usage will shoot up to over 90%, and my whole system slows to a crawl. I’d realise the [...]

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How To Auto Reload/Refresh Tabs In Firefox With Free Plugin

Tab Mix Plus is one of my favourite Firefox plugins, firstly because it lets me split my tabs into multiple rows (I have too many tabs open at any single time to fit into just one row), and secondly because it allows me to set the reload or refresh time of one or all tabs [...]

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PHP Code to Detect IE Browsers

The extremely buggy way that Internet Explorer renders CSS annoyed me again, this time because of the different way it displays elements with z-indexes. I spent a couple of hours trying to fix the bug, failed, and decided to go about it another way. The problem lay in a CSS/Javascript rotating banner gallery ,so I used [...]

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