Category: 'Browsers'
Set a Firefox 3 download record at Download Day 2008
Posted on Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Always wanted to set a Guinness World Record? Well, now you can by simply downloading the soon to be released version 3 of the Firefox webbrowser. You don’t even have to install it. A download will suffice, thank you. But while you’re at it, why not give it a try.
How do you participate? […]
Posted in Utilities, Internet, Firefox, Browsers, General | No Comments »
2.0.0.2 does not equal 2.0.0.*?
Posted on Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Here’s a weird Firefox add-on installation error-message:
Looks like Firefox 2.0.0.x isn’t the same as 2.0.0.2.
Update: Fixed it with some notes from AMO a.k.a. version-number hacking.
Posted in Firefox, Browsers | No Comments »
Testing with IE6 and IE7 on a Single PC
Posted on Friday, December 1st, 2006
Great news from the people who brought us Internet Explorer. They’ve released a Virtual PC image containing a time-limited WinXP SP2 with IE 6 for all our testing pleasure. No licensing required! And if you don’t have a copy of Virtual PC yet, they’ll give you Virtual PC 2004 for free to run it all.
Posted in WebDev, News, Utilities, Development, Webdesign, Browsers, Internet Explorer, Design, General | No Comments »
MSN …ehr… Live Local Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)
Posted on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Apparently it’s live. A 3D extension to the map search of live.com which lets you fly through their maps like a bird.
Posted in Search, MSN Search, News, Development, Internet Explorer, General | 3 Comments »
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Released
Posted on Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
And another official one down! Less than a week ago Microsoft upped their browser to a 7.0 version. This time it’s the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Firefox is now a 2.0.
Posted in News, Utilities, Internet, Development, Browsers, Firefox, General | 1 Comment »
IE7 Released
Posted on Thursday, October 19th, 2006
It’s official! Internet Explorer 7 is here, for the general public that is.
Posted in Internet, Utilities, WebDev, Development, Browsers, Internet Explorer, General | No Comments »
Get Firebug!
Posted on Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
if ((bWebDeveloper || bWebDesigner) && bFirefox) {
try {
var oNewExtension = new cExtension();
oNewExtension.fetchXPI = fnFetchURL(”www.getfirebug.com“);
oNewExtension.installXPI();
if (oNewExtension.success) {
console.log(”Firebug installed successfully.”);
var oFurtherOptions = getElementById(”divTellUser”);
[…]
Posted in WebDev, Internet, Intranet, Utilities, Development, Webdesign, Browsers, Firefox, Design, General | No Comments »
Firefox ACID2 compliance on its way
Posted on Thursday, April 13th, 2006
Now, after Safari, iCab, Konqueror & Opera 9 beta, it’s Firefox’ turn to comply with the ACID2 test. David Baron has built a special development version of Firefox that fixes some rendering issues that kept it from complying before. You can see the screenshot of ACID2 in action on his Flickr account.
Now, why is […]
Posted in WebDev, News, Development, Webdesign, Browsers, Firefox, General | 2 Comments »
Extend Firefox Contest Winners
Posted on Sunday, March 5th, 2006
The grand prize winners of the Extend Firefox competition are in. One of them is the one I use on a daily basis. In fact it’s the biggest reason why I’m using Firefox as my main browser. Props to Chris! But IMHO the Web Developer toolbar is only usefull for us web developers (and […]
Posted in WebDev, News, Utilities, Development, Webdesign, Browsers, Firefox, Design, General | No Comments »
Who’s using the Search Bar anyway?
Posted on Thursday, February 16th, 2006
While browsing to Yahoo! this bar on top struck me. Click to enlarge:
Apparently Yahoo! is promoting the Search Bar, which is standard issue in Firefox. Guess they want us to change the default Google setting.
This in turn made me think of the times I used that Search Bar. Probably once, the first time […]
Posted in Yahoo, MSN Search, Google, Search, Firefox, News, General | No Comments »