Some sites having annoying ads, or adblock removal nag screens. The most annoying have these ads or nags in a div with a random number on the end, so blocking it does no good. What you need in this situation is to block with a wildcard.
After some searching and referring to quite a few forum posts I came across this –
www.annoyingwebsite.com##div[id^=”start_of_div_name_before_number”]
Just find the div you want to block, find the non-changing part and modify the above as necessary.
Ever since I moved from Google Chrome to Firefox, I’ve been bothered by the tab bar. In Chrome, the tabs are properly right at the very top of the screen when maximised. In Firefox, even with the fancy new CSD (Client Side Decorations) there is an annoying border above the tab which ruins my muscle memory of flinging the mouse to the top to switch tabs.
For a while I was using gdevilspie to undecorate Firefox, but this made using it non-maximised annoying and also affected Firefox popup windows. After some meddling I found this
The one caveat to this is that the Mint-X theme in Cinnamon has a nasty looking border. You will need to change to one that works (Mint-y or Mint-y Dark) before doing any of the above, and run through the steps again if you change theme.
–update
It seems that you need to toggle Titlebar on and off each time you launch Firefox. That’s annoying.
–updated update
This looks like it’s fixed in the latest Firefox beta (61.0b8)
I started tonight restarting my PC due to a Linux update. During restart I noticed that I’d left the grub menu on the default 10 second delay. I thought I’d quickly go into the grub config and change the timeout to 3 seconds, just enough to change something if I need to, but short enough to not be an annoyance.
While I was in the grub config I noticed grub_init_tune commented out at the end. Hmm. Quick google. Quick lookup of tunes people had worked out. A quick search for script to test tunes without restarting. Another bit of googling, installed beep and made it work. Somewhere along the line I found the opening riff for “The final countdown”. Cheesy to the max. Two hours later and job done. Shame I only ever restart my PC for updates…
In case you’re wondering, this is line I used
GRUB_INIT_TUNE=”480 554 1 494 1 554 4 370 6 10 3 587 1 554 1 587 2 554 2 494 6″