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Comment on Olympus, learn how to use proactive support to cut down costs by David Tenser

David Tenser — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:14:38 +0000

Test!

Comment on Olympus E-M5 – my next camera? by David Naylor

David Naylor — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:09:12 +0000

Control is everything! =)

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by Mardeg

Mardeg — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:32:01 +0000

David Tenser said:

“The point of this blog post was to provide a simple method for users who aren’t interested in installing an extension and copying and pasting scripts. ”

So why not include a simple bookmarklet link that does Chris’s suggestion that people can drag directly to their bookmarks toolbar? In case the blog mangles it in the link for my name the code of it is:

javascript:void(location.href=location.href+”?banner=none”)

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by jim

jim — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:05:00 +0000

Just stop the wiki page from loading completely and you can the whole text of the page

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by Chris

Chris — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:40:14 +0000

just add:

?banner=none

at the end of the url…

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by David Tenser

David Tenser — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:37:40 +0000

The point of this blog post was to provide a simple method for users who aren’t interested in installing an extension and copying and pasting scripts.

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by dbcooper

dbcooper — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:43:45 +0000

Or you could block the offending script with adblock plus by adding this filter:

|http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:BannerController&cache=/cn.js&303-4

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by Rich

Rich — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:42:03 +0000

Or you could us the Googly cache. For example:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=631&site=webhp&source=hp&q=cache%3Aen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDeus_Ex&pbx=1&oq=cache%3Aen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDeus_Ex&aq=f&aqi=q-w1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=6851l8780l1l10124l6l5l0l0l0l0l231l734l2.2.1l5l0

Comment on Firefox tip: Getting past the Wikipedia blackout by Stylish

Stylish — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:41:59 +0000

You can also add a userstyle in the Stylish extension:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain(“en.wikipedia.org”) {
#mw-sopaOverlay { display: none }
#mw-page-base, #mw-head-base, #content, #mw-head, #mw-panel, #footer { display: block !important }
}

Comment on The next browser war: Users vs Web Content by CICI

CICI — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:25:07 +0000

Adblock plus is very useful and I can add it in firefox and Avant browser 2012.
More and more browsers can use Adblock plus in their browsers and ADS is very annoying. This is a good thing. Right?