Posts Tagged With: cache
· April 11, 2008 at 6:58 am · Firefox Usability
Knowing that by the time I get there, the page will probably have already been dugg to death or viewed by so many people on reddit, del.icio.us and others that I won’t be able to view it, I often give up. Firefox gives us a few more chances to bring that popular web site back up from the dead.
Handy Links and Bookmarklets
First solution I have to share with you would be the bookmarklet way of doing things. Thanks to Stephen Ostermiller and his Cache Bookmarklets - you too can view Coral Cache, Google Cache, or the Wayback Machine history when it comes to checking out that cool link all your friends are talking about.
You could always visit come of these caching services by hand too. Just toss these addresses in front of your link:
All you have to do is replace the word “link” with your own URL you are trying to visit. Handy list of bookmarks to keep by your side. What about the add-on fix?
Firefox Add-ons to Help Resurrect Pages
If you would rather go the extension route, then pick up the Resurrect Pages add-on for Firefox. This tool will give you a way to access these services and more right from the browser. It works from:
- the context (right-click) menu for the current page, and for all links.
- in the toolbar, just customize it to drag the button in.
- with the keyboard: press Ctrl-Shift-U
Another extension for Firefox that may do the trick is CacheIt. It will also display an archived version of the page you are viewing or the link you are hovering over. Does a lot of the same things Resurrect Pages does, it just does it differently.
More Add-ons to Try: Cache View, ErrorZilla Mod, and TADSEE
Got Greasemonkey? Try Digg.com Mirrors. I wish I could toss in a few more Greasemonkey fixes but all the scripts out there that used to be good just are not updated as much as they used to be.
Now you should be ready to view any popular link your friends have to send your way without the fear of being the one “out of the loop” due to the web site being down. Have anymore fixes I didn’t mention? Please share!
· November 16, 2007 at 6:46 am · Resources
This week went by too quickly, so the links are not plentiful - but they are good. You come here for the quality though and not the numbers right?
As always, if you have a headline or two to send my way, feel free to send it to mitch@mitchkeeler.com. I’ll take the best of the best, and leave out the rest.
· June 14, 2007 at 7:13 am · Firefox Settings
Trying to browse through your old saved browser history can be a pain in Firefox in comparison with Internet Explorer.
IE has “Temporary Internet Files” - Firefox has a pain in the rear interface for browsing through its cache. One way to fix this design blunder though is do download and install the CacheViewer extension for Firefox.
This extenion is a GUI Front-end of and for “about:cache”. It allows searching and sorting memory and disk cache files. All in all a pretty nice tool to help you get going with browsing through what you have saved from the Web on your PC.
If you’d rather do it without the extension - here is a method thrown out there by the folks at Lifehacker:
If you prefer the old-fashioned way of browsing your cache, in Windows you can navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\********.default\Cache and see the hodge-podge of files that make up your cache. CacheViewer is a free download and works anywhere the ‘fox does.
· April 19, 2007 at 12:05 pm · Entertainment
Courtesy of my favorite Web comic, bLaugh.com!
· November 28, 2006 at 8:18 am · Firefox Usability
Having a problem viewing a Web page that is not there anymore? Maybe it got popular and now it is a little hard to pull it up. Well, that is why cache was created - you silly little person. Now with the extension Cache View you can make good use out of it.
Displays Google’s Cache, Coral’s Cache, Wayback Machine’s Cache, Dot Cache, Tech Guru’s Cache, and Cachebin’s cache of the current tab open via right-click or Tools menu. This was made so that if the site is down in any way, especially the Digg effect and Slashdot effect, you can hopefully view it.
+ Learn More About and Install Cache View!
· November 17, 2006 at 4:52 am · Firefox Usability
We all want a way to get more information about the Web sites we know and love, right? Even if you don’t run one yourself, it is always nice to go out and find out something you did not know. That is where the About This Site Firefox extension comes in. It will hand you a plethora of details all in one context menu.
+ Learn More About and Download About This Site!
· November 2, 2006 at 4:55 am · Firefox Settings
Am I the only person out there that has not ever really noticed a big speed increase when using Fasterfox? The newest version of the extension is out, and it now works with Firefox 2. If you can, leave me a comment if you have really noticed a difference using this extension - because I am confused why I have not.
Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.
Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.
+ Learn More About and Download the Fasterfox Extension!
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