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Jan. 6th, 2011 11:13 amOh dear, karaoke in the quad on Thursdays, it seems...
Jan. 6th, 2011
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Jan. 6th, 2011 11:54 amWhen I click to open something in a new tab, is there a way to find out what page I clicked the link on (assuming I've closed that other tab already, I mean, I can't just go look)? I often find myself in the situation of wanting to say "I was sent here from xxx's journal" and not being able to actually remember who xxx was. I guess what I want to do is sniff out http referrer, so I know where I came from when landing on any given page. Is there some way to do that? FromWhereToWhere looks like it should do what I want, but the results don't seem consistent and/or always useful - sometimes I get blank history or "invalid date" (wha?), and LJ links seem to be obscured with the setdomsess cycle it goes through, so I don't see what journal entry I clicked from, nor even my flist page url. Hrm.
edit: I don't just mean "reopen closed tabs". I do that all the time. I mean when I am looking at a page which was opened in new tab, I want to know specifically what page contained the link that I clicked to get here.
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edit2: Turns out in Firefox the referrer is in the page info window (Tools > Page Info, or Alt + T + I - oh, for a hotkey, but I used to do Alt + B + O for bookmarks for a while when that didn't have a hotkey, so easily get-used-to-able). So so long as I open the entry page before clicking the link away from it (which is my usual behavior, especially if there are comments already), it's all good.
edit: I don't just mean "reopen closed tabs". I do that all the time. I mean when I am looking at a page which was opened in new tab, I want to know specifically what page contained the link that I clicked to get here.
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edit2: Turns out in Firefox the referrer is in the page info window (Tools > Page Info, or Alt + T + I - oh, for a hotkey, but I used to do Alt + B + O for bookmarks for a while when that didn't have a hotkey, so easily get-used-to-able). So so long as I open the entry page before clicking the link away from it (which is my usual behavior, especially if there are comments already), it's all good.
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Jan. 6th, 2011 03:01 pmRandom things I like, #2982:
The semi-rhythmic scratching sound of handwriting.
The semi-rhythmic scratching sound of handwriting.
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Jan. 6th, 2011 04:22 pmDoes anyone know what parts of LJ page content are served from l-stat.livejournal.com? I saw someone complaining in a comment on Dreamwidth today that s.dreamwidth.org was a horribly slow subdomain for them and did anyone know if icons or whatever were served from there as they were considering blocking it to speed up page load times. At work (works OK at home, so I conclude it's something peculiar about net traffic routing to/from this location) I feel the same about l-stat. I often see "Connecting to l-stat.livejournal.com..." for many seconds down there in the status bar before anything on the page loads at all (22 seconds in the case I just tested), and even after most of the content seems to have gotten served, I'll sometimes see it again/more, holding up the works. So I'm wondering what I'll miss if I try blocking this server somehow (hosts file, maybe?) so its content isn't even attempted.