OK fine, I cracked. If you install my extension you can now get random pictures of dogs instead of US news on the BBC website. It uses https://placedog.net/ to provide the dog photos. Installation instructions are at the bottom of my last post. It takes...

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I think that 24/7 news is a modern-day scourge, and one of its corollaries in the UK is the overdue prominence given to US news. I use the BBC News website when I'm trying to find out what's going on, but I'd prefer that the coverage was of countries within three thousand miles. I used Copilot to help me bash together an extension for both Chrome and Firefox which simply removes U...

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September 2008: I look forward to the first Linux build which runs Chrome as its window manager.

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Things I have learned from the AMA with three Chrome devs: about:flags – “Enable better omnibox history matching” (gives you awesomebar-like features, dev channel only)

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In my attempts to find better ways of getting long-form content onto my Kindle to read offline, I’ve mainly been using two tools: Instapaper and the Later On Kindle Chrome extension. Instapaper has great formatting, and repeated delivery works like a new iss...

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(because one more whiny blogger’s opinion can’t hurt) nice, fast. I see ad people a single google doc in an application window feels nicer than the Prism alternative masses of the standard Firefox keyboard shortcuts work find-as-you-type requires CTRL+F find-as-you-type doesn’t select links

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