How I set up my isolated testing Firefox environment

Yesterday I covered how I actually runtwo web browsers, one for my real browsing and one for various sortsof testing and isolated browsing. That raises a question: how do youset up something like that?

In theory, you could just use an alternate Firefox profile (with ascript to start your test Firefox with the right magic arguments). Inpractice I have never trusted Firefox's profile system that much, partlybecause in the past I spent some time testing out potentially buggydevelopment builds. So I


How I run two Firefoxes at once and still have remote control

Given how Firefox remote control works on Unix , you might wonder how I routinely run twoseparate copies of Firefox and still have my remote control environment work reliablyenough that I haven't pitched one of the copies out the window long ago.

In theory, the answer is Firefox's -no-remote argument. In practicethis doesn't work quite the way you want it to. The problem is that aFirefox instance run with -no-remote will still register itself as avalid target for remote


認識你,真好! –《山楂樹之戀》

《山楂樹之戀》的愛情台詞摘錄 ( 原著小說作者: 艾米)

關於老三和靜秋的愛情故事。

請忘記《英雄》,《十面埋伏》及《滿城盡帶黃金甲》,張藝謀先生,我就是喜歡看《山楂樹之戀》– 喜歡它的老套及純良。電影由艾米原著

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光影情事

( 原刊 AV Magazine 29-10-2010)

人生音像城

光影情事

( 鳴謝 Edward Ching 摘錄的金句 )

在導演姜秀瓊、關本良的《乘著光影旅行》紀錄片中,看到一位謙謙君子,熱愛工作的藝術家–李屏賓。

因為年青時看侯孝賢的電影,開始喜歡李


娛樂學生

早兩天在知識論堂上講到illusion這個概念時,向學生表演了一個紙牌魔術,以作為illusion的現場例子。今天在哲學導論堂上解釋inference to the best explanation時,又表演了一次,以說明選擇explanation時(例如解釋那紙牌魔術的效果)應該用一些甚麼標準。哲學導

$300換來的小奢華—-香港美酒佳餚巡禮

實不相瞞,對於品酒,我只是略有經驗,那些品酒術語,什麼丹寧、回味、酒體或辛辣等等一大堆,我都只是知其名不大知其意。

但正所謂「貴有貴派頭、平有平享受」,一杯在手、來點芝士或麵包小吃,再加上三五知己一起把

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A very convenient trick: having a testing browser

One of the little peculiarities of my personal environment is that Iactually use two different copies of Firefox at once. Well, sort of.What I have is my regular Firefox and a separate 'testing' instance.

There are two important configuration differences between the instances.First, the testing instance uses a standard version of Firefox, insteadof my usual self-compiled and custom-hacked version. Second, it isconfigured to clear all 'history' when Firefox exits, thereby flushingbrowsing history, the cache,


還是柔弱一點數

有個相士告訴我,男人在辦公桌放些家庭照,對事業運很有幫助。女人在辦公桌放家庭照,等於叫老闆「唔好升我」。


Well,這裡有點心理學,有點社會學,相士都是社會學家。讓我Daisy 來說明一下吧,道理非常簡單:家庭照有助男

Rolleiflex 2.8E 首航+ REDSCALE

張相片

ROLLEIFLEX 2.8e 以成萬元收入,貴是貴的,但配件算是齊備。此機在試機的時候所有快門都沒問題的,不知是不是放了點時日,幾星期前帶他出航的時候,竟然發現1秒,1/2秒,1/4秒是壞了的。唉,有點年代的東西,就是麻

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有趣設計收集

生活創意設計

堆起來的杯子,其實就只有一隻杯。 運用視覺錯覺的設計

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