Category: URI scheme

Gui:Config makes tweaking Firefox advanced settings a snap

Recommended by elsterama on July 18, 2011 via WebWorkerDaily

Firefox is a very customizable browser. As well as add-ons, it has a large number of advanced settings that you can tweak, some of which enable you to do pretty useful things like stopping Firefox from switching into “Work Offline” mode if your Internet connection drops.Continue

URLHistory Automatically Saves URLs From Your Clipboard

Recommended by elsterama on April 14, 2011 via WebWorkerDaily

URLHistory is one of those simple but amazingly useful little Windows apps that does one thing really well: It monitors your clipboard looking for copied URLs, and stores them for you to use later. If you frequently end up copying and pasting URLs into a document or text file, perhaps for research, writing an article, or collating a list of file downloads, URLHistory cuts out the step of having to switch applications to paste the URL.Continue

Data URI Sprites Generator – Spritebaker

Recommended by elsterama on September 13, 2010 via WebResourcesDepot

Data URIs, which is a way of using data in-line in web pages, is a great method for minimizing HTTP requests and speeding up websites.

The common usage is simply encoding data (mostly background-images) in Base 64 and including it to the stylesheets.

Spritebaker is a free web application which automates this process for you.Continue