Google Chrome Can Prevent JavaScript From Generating Dialogs

Google Chrome has a wonderful feature: if one element in web page call one JavaScript function multiple times from them second time Chrome adds a checkbox to stop future dialogs to appear.

This is a very handy feature because some pages may generate infinite number of dialogs and because it locks browser you couldn't close tab with it (at least in Firefox). The only way to deal with such a problem in FF is to close the whole application. And if it setted up to load pages from previous session on start you could have some problems! Of course there are still possible ways to prevent browser from loading this page again but it will require an extra effort.

Firefox 3 Instant Crashes

I use Mozilla Firefox as my browser. I started from version 2, when I migrated from Opera because it wasn't supported by some Google web applications. Version 2 frustrated me with periodical freezes - they lasted for about 30 seconds and then FF came back to live. Now I'm using FF 3. There was a lot of buzz about it. I found that it has some new valuable features that still keep me from downgrading to FF 2. But FF 3 on my computer crashes several time per day. At first it was happening at notebook with Vista. So I had some suggestions that this are the problems with OS. But I found that these crashes happen on desktop computer with XP. Moreover recently I reinstalled OS on notebook and firefox crashes on almost "clean" OS also.

I don't use any *not very popular* extensions. Even more - I disabled them all, but FF 3 continue to crash. May be I should disable some plugins? I don't know. And I didn't heard any significant buzz about "FF crashes on my PC every hour!" so I come to conclusion that these are problems with my environment (Russia, ISP, some software on PC, anything else). But Opera works finely. So I have three ways:

1. With great patience continue to use FF 3
2. Downgrade to FF 2 (remember the buzz "downgrade to XP from Vista")
3. Use another browser: Opera, Maxthon, IE, Safari.
   

But... I've been waiting for FF 3 and wanted to use it. And now I found it to be a big piece of crashes for me.

My source code library

Next programming book I want to read is "The Pragmatic Programmer" by A. Hunt and D. Thomas. While watching through it I found advice: "Never drop to garbage not-working or unused code. It will help you to avoid same mistakes" (of course that isn't very exact cite). So I've take my step to keep my knowledge base — I've started on Google Code my own project. There I'll keep my code, feeling sure that it will not disappear with hard-drive crush. And also, I'll have access to it from any place, that will have internet connection. Rather useful.

Google search through source code is also can be good to find information.