How I fixed it: Firefox

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Firefox does not start but HDD usage goes up to 100% on Windows 8.1 and blocks / freezes the computer

Today my firefox 33 did not start any more. In task manager the process was shown, but with memory = 0 and CPU = 0. But the HDD usage of my computer went up to 100% and it was fully blocked for everything else. Waiting for a couple of minutI es did not change anything, also rebooting did not help

How-I-fixed-it:
Since Internet Explorer since worked on the computer, i went to https://www.mozilla.org/de/firefox/new/ and installed the latest version of the firefox browser. After this, firefox worked fine again.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

How to download all videos of a playlist (full playlist) from YouTube

I was looking for an simple way how to download all videos of a YouTube playlist in a batch.

How i fixed it:
I used firefox and these two Add-ons:
- BYTubeD - Bulk YouTube Video Download
- DownloadThemAll

How to download all videos of the playlist:
- Do a search on YouTube for the Playlist you want to grab (set the search filter to "Playlist") and select "Show all videos".
- Use the BYTubeD Add-on to generate a local HTML page with links to the desired videos which then opens in firefox
- On this newly opened page use DownloadThemAll to download all files

I found the solution in the (german) video:

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Export parts of Firefox bookmarks to HTML or Trac

After searching around on the web for a while, i decided to write my own little conversion tool to export only parts of my firefox bookmarks, e.g. subfolders, to a HTML-File or in TRAC format.
Here's how i did it:
I added the OPML Addon to my firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/2625
I exported my bookmarks to an OPML-File, which is just XML.
Next i create a little XSL-Stylesheet that converts the OPML to the desired format.
To convert OPML to TRAC links the XSLT looks like this (OPML2TRAC.xsl):


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="text" encoding="utf-16"  media-type="text/plain" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="no"/>
 <xsl:variable name="exportRootFolderName">PlaceTheNameOfYourSubfolderHere</xsl:variable>
 <xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:for-each select="//outline[@text=$exportRootFolderName]">
     <xsl:call-template name="outlineConvert"></xsl:call-template>
   </xsl:for-each>
 </xsl:template>
 <xsl:template name="outlineConvert">
   <xsl:for-each select="outline[@url != '']">
     <xsl:sort select="@text" />[<xsl:value-of select="./@url" disable-output-escaping="yes"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="./@text"/>]<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
   </xsl:for-each>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

To convert OPML to HTML links the XSLT looks like this (OPML2HTML.xsl):


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="html" encoding="utf-16"  media-type="text/html" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="no"/>
 <xsl:variable name="exportRootFolderName">PlaceTheNameOfYourSubfolderHere</xsl:variable>
 <xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:for-each select="//outline[@text=$exportRootFolderName]">
        <xsl:call-template name="outlineConvert"></xsl:call-template>
   </xsl:for-each>
 </xsl:template>
 <xsl:template name="outlineConvert">
   <html>
     <body>
       <h2>My Bookmarks</h2>
       <table border="1">
         <xsl:for-each select="outline[@url != '']">
           <xsl:sort select="@text" />
           <tr>
             <td>
               <a>
                 <xsl:attribute name="href">
                   <xsl:value-of select="./@url"/>
                 </xsl:attribute>
                 <xsl:value-of select="./@text"/>
               </a>
             </td>
           </tr>
         </xsl:for-each>
       </table>
     </body>
   </html>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Replace the "PlaceTheNameOfYourSubfolderHere" value with the name of the Subfolder of your firefox bookmarks.

In the head of the OPML-File insert the reference to the XSL-File:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="opml2trac.xsl"?>
<opml version="1.0">
... Rest of the OPML file ...

Open the OPML in Firefox or Internet Explorer now. You should then see the converted result.

You can also use a XSLT-Processor, e.g. MSXSL to do the conversion.