I'd like to review a couple of Firefox add-ons I am using every day: our own WebPredict, and TooManyTabs. Both are intended for people who browse a lot.

WebPredict allows user to rate some Web pages, and based on those ratings predicts the quality of other Web pages. We made a beta-release of this add-on recently, and this beta-release prompted me to write this review.

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TooManyTabs allows user who has too many tabs to save tabs, so that they don't eat memory and don't slow down the browser.( Read more... )

I finally learned how to edit Russian texts in Emacs (Linux, UTF-8). Since I was not able to find this technique on the net, I'd like to share it here. This, in particular, allows to include Russian substrings into the command line using M-x shell command, for example:

echo "Привет"

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Update: grep is capable of searching for utf-8 strings from this shell.