Remove and block overlays / annotations on Youtube videos
Here’s a simple and effective way to block and remove the potentially annoying and obtrusive “annotations” (or overlays) that appear over the top of many Youtube videos. Nice.
Special Characters like em dash in Firefox
Fast access to special characters in Firefox, and double-dash to em-dash replacement.
Changing default browser search engines
I like Safari, but find it lacks certain privacy plugins/extensions I like to run. I also like using Zotero for online research, which has the best integration with Firefox. I have recently moved away from using as many Google services as possible. To put it simply, I...
Resuming broken downloads in OS X
I often find downloads will not resume when I use any of the common browsers for the downloading. They are meant to resume, but it just fails in many instances. Today I figured out how to resume pretty much any download that fails part way through, is incomplete, and...
Enabling Pinch Zoom Trackpad Gestures in Firefox
You may have noticed that from about version 4 and upwards Firefox has turned off support for pinch to zoom. As a Mac user this will no doubt be something you’ll want to turn back on. It’s simple to do. Here is how: Open a new Tab and type in...