Roy's musings

By JavaScript generated page I mean a page that is mostly constructed using JavaScript's document.write(...) statements. This is mostly the case when you make use of UI frameworks like YUI. Recently one of my friends approached me to help him with trouble shooting a page which was developed using YUI. We spent some time trying to figure out how to view the source of the page that we were viewing. When we did a right click and "View source" in Firefox, all we saw was a bunch of JavaScript sources being included. Nothing more. So here is how you can easily view the source. Install "Execute JS" plug in. Then load the page you would like to view source. Then you click on "Tools -> Open Execute JS". Then check the "Content Window" and choose the title of the window that you would like to view the source for. Now in the "JS-Code to execute", just type the following: document.documentElement.innerHTML Then click on "Execute"...

But this one is useful. The title of the blog entry is "Top 10 Firefox plugins for web developers & designers".

Here is a list of three plugins for Firefox that really makes my life a lot easy, secure and fast. Adblock Foxmarks NoScript I have written an article earlier about Adblock and it can make your browsing experience better by getting rid of unnecessary ads. If you are working in multiple machines (your laptop, your desktop, etc), Foxmarks will help you to sync up all the bookmarks automatically. NoScript is for preventing those junk scripts that really slow down your system and at times prove to be insecure. Be prepared for surprises! Some times the web pages you visit might not work the way you expect them to ("Why the link doesn't take me anywhere which I click?"). The JavaScript that is supposed to kick in on clicking the link might be blocked by NoScript.

Google ads are good, at times. But I don't remember when was the last time I clicked on one and visited the target page. If I need something, I mostly use Google search, not the ads. Most of the time I feel that those ads come in my way when I am reading something really serious. Its waste of bandwidth and time to load these ads when I am not in a mood to clicking on them. Here is a cool solution for the Firefox. All that you have to do is to download the Adblock plug-in and install it. Then restart your Firefox. Go to Tools -> Adblock -> Preferences. Enter the Google syndication URL (http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js). Save and you are done. Have a Google ads free surfing :-)