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[caption id="attachment_848" align="alignleft" width="326" caption="Sorry, Right click is disabled."][/caption]I think I’m going to start a new category for web sites that like to disable your browser. You know the ones. They use javascript disable your right mouse button, telling you you don’t have permission to use that feature. Presumably they do this so you can’t right-click, select “view source”, cause they don’t want their source “code” revealed.
I’ll start this Wall O Shame with a real doozy:

USA Web “Solutions”.
These tools have not only “disabled” the right mouse button, but any key on your keyboard that might lead to telling your browser to do something. Ctrl, for example. Or Alt.[caption id="attachment_851" align="alignright" width="326" caption="Sorry, you do not have permission to press this key."][/caption]
That’s right, you can’t do “ctrl-r” to refresh the page. Or “ctrl-arrow” to go forward or backward in your history. Or ctrl-u to view their source. Or alt-tab to another window…

And here, just to shame them, is their source code:

• Yawn! Morning everyone. At work, monring coffee in hand. I’ll wake up in a few minutes. #

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• @krzy I always do. #

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• @radi0chik I’m with you. Much nicer this way. Was still 90deg+ in the parking garage this morning. #
• Heading home. Drive in rush-hour traffic. Wee! Damn errands I can’t run when taking the train… #

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• Back from Austin. Fun weekend but good to be home. #
• Back at work after holiday weekend. Comedy of errors getting here today. #
• On the way home. #

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I’m playing around a little bit with Google’s “Chrome” browser. The jury is still out, but I am very impressed with it’s rendering speed. Everything I’ve thrown at it so far, the only rendering delays I’ve seen so far are things outside of the browser’s control: time for the DNS server to resolve the hostname, bandwidth, speed of the remote web server. Rendering the page once it’s downloaded is the fastest I’ve ever seen.
I also like how well it imported all my Firefox settings, including history, bookmarks and saved passwords. The last is a little creepy, but sure saves me having to re-enter them all for every site I want to test that is behind a login.