Alvin Poh’s Blog

How To Open All New Windows As New Tabs, By-Passing The _blank Attribute

One quirk that I discovered in Safari was that new links (the links that are assigned a target=”_blank” attribute) are always opened in a new Safari window, even though you may have set the option to open all links in a new tab in Safari’s preferences. The fix for this turns out to be simple, as [...]

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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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