Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

If you are using Firefox on your Windows PC, you can get much more than what web developers created for you on their web pages. Greasemonkey is a useful extension that helps you customize how you view ...

An upcoming release of Firefox will give users the option to block two increasingly common and ugly aspects of today's web: browser fingerprinting and cryptomining scripts. Neither type of script is ...

Mozilla has always been a strong advocate for internet privacy. More recently, Mozilla has been working on Firefox Focus, a simplified browser that blocks all trackers/cookies and erases browsing data ...

If you maintain a website for your business and need to test some scripts, you will encounter the "A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding; you can stop the script now, or ...

Cryptomining has been abused to subvert people’s computer resources for the benefit of disingenuous webmasters. Image from Shutterstock. At least one of the websites on this list was not intended ...

Firefox 57, released last month, includes a secret feature that will delay the loading of tracking scripts —JavaScript code loaded from known tracking domains such as advertising, analytics, and ...

Joshua Kinberg of Sandbox Films, a video blogging news site, has written two Greasemonkey scripts that allow you to download videos from Google Video and Youtube.com. These videos are free to watch ...

At a time when every high-profile data breach sheds more light on how web activity is monitored, Firefox is launching anti-tracking tools to protect against fingerprinting and crypto-mining. Mozilla ...

The User Script Compiler converts your Greasemonkey scripts into full-fledged Firefox extensions. I gave it a try with the Gmail Macros script described in my Gmail master feature (it's just a matter ...

Mozilla has released an update for its Firefox browser which includes an option to block cryptocurrency mining scripts on websites. The option is being offered ...