Tell Mozilla to slow down

Here’s an idea for your one-good-deed-per-day program: tell Mozilla on every channel to reverse their idiotic and suicidal rapid release process. Why not start by commenting the chairperson’s personal blog post: http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2011/08/25/rapid-release-process I wish the big wings at Mozilla realized that it’s not just the enterprise folks who care about stability (releases & API). Simple […]

How to send a HEAD request from Firefox

Use the JavaScript console in Firebug and run the following script snippet: var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); xmlhttp.open(“HEAD”, “the_url”,true); // Async HEAD request (relative path to avoid cross-domain restrictions) xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() { if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) { // make sure the request is complete alert(xmlhttp.getAllResponseHeaders()) // display the headers } } xmlhttp.send(null); // send request