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My favourite 10 + 2 Firefox addons, for 2011…

I’ve tried almost all browsers available, and my favourites are Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. In this post I’ll list the Firefox addons that I consider indispensable, and which are the reason I stick with Firefox, most of the time!

  1. HTTPS Everywhere – encrypt the web! This is an initiative by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to make the web a more secure communication medium. This plugin will always attempt to use a secure, encrypted connection to any web page you try to visit, so that third parties cannot eavesdrop (or make it harder for them to do so, anyway).
  2. Add to Search Bar. Very handy plugin, especially in combination with “Organize Search Engines“, of the same developer, as well as with InstantFox. In fact, I would consider “Add to Search Bar” and “Organize Search Engines” as one addon, made of two components. What it does, is that whenever you are on a page with a search box (e.g. an eshop, a dictionary, a forum, whatever), you can right click in the box and add the particular search functionality into your custom search engines. Περισσότερα

Blog statistics: Browsers & Operating Systems (July 2011)

This month’s statistics were very interesting… Compare the visitors who took some action on the content (print, email, like, tweet, share, etc) in the first table, against the general trend of visitors, in the second table… You’ll be able to tell a lot about the different mindsets of internet users, based on the software they’re using!

For example, Apple users seem to be extremely… sociable! Safari, the browser used by default in iOS, accounts for 1.5% of the total traffic, but it has contributed 18.75% of the total social sharing actions!

But the grand prize goes to iPad users: they may account for less than 0.3% of the total traffic, but they have actually contributed 12.5% of the sharing! WOW!

Visitors who printed, emailed, liked, tweeted or otherwise shared content (top four):

Browsers Operating Systems
Browser

Share %

Operating System

Share %

Firefox

68.75%

Windows

68.75%

Safari

18.75%

Linux

12.50%

Chrome

6.25%

iPad

12.50%

Explorer

6.25%

Android

6.25%

In comparison to visitors in general (top four):

Browsers Operating Systems
Browser

Share %

Operating System

Share %

Firefox

50.64%

Windows

77.79%

Chrome

24.82%

Linux

19.70%

Explorer

20.70%

Macintosh

1.78%

Safari

1.51%

iPad & Android

0.32%

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Make your blog super fast with W3 Total Cache plugin

I have recently installed the W3 Total Cache plugin, and it has made a tremendous difference. I have no specific metrics, but the feeling I have is as if it loads at least three times faster!! WOW!

What makes the biggest contribution is CDN (content delivery network), which I set up on a subdomain. It is not the easiest thing to do and it took a couple hours of tweaking to get it just right. I mostly followed the instructions found here:

I also got some hints from How To Install W3 Total Cache Tutorial – Setup Guide and How To Install W3 Total Cache 0.9 Setup Guide.

In order to make it work for me, I specifically did the following things slightly differently:

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