Monthly Archives: July 2016
Unwanted HTTP-requests in Firefox
Problem Today when I opened my Firebug panel to inspect a HTTP-request to localhost I found that there was just one request to localhost but also many other requests. Another indicator of this behavior were the longer loading times of normally fast intranet and localhost sites. I tried it on my other website where only a html-page, a style-sheet and one picture is delivered. Today the request block in the network pane of firebug looked like this: Approach After some googling I found the advice to disable plugin by plugin to find out which plugin is responsible for these requests. Solution In my […]
Set up Zotero with own WebDAV space
Today I set up Zotero on my Debian (Strech) GNU/Linux PC at home. I installed the following debian packages with aptitude: aptitude install xul-ext-zotero libreoffice-zotero-integration Problem Firefox started with the new Zotero plug-in but when I tried to configure WebDAV for file syncing I received an error message which told me that my user name or password are invalid. This error message occurred when I tried to hit the ‘verify’ button. Approach My suspicion was that firefox is missing some WebDAV functionality so I compared the intstalled packages of a other Debian machine where it worked. I searched for packages which contain the […]