Category: 'Firefox'
RE: Adobe looking for a Gecko expert
Posted on Friday, January 20th, 2006
That is what the below job offering says. But I’m not quite sure what it is they’re building. Remember the Adobe & Macromedia merger? So it’s quite obvious that the the product lines of both will be merged. Meaning Flash and PDF …
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The Orange Icon, part 2
Posted on Thursday, December 15th, 2005
Microsoft has decided. The feed indicator in IE 7 is still orange! Most surprisingly it’s the same one that Firefox has. Well, not so much of a surprise, because it was the Mozilla foundation who kindly ‘donated’ it: Thanks again to the Mozilla team for making the icon available and helping us do the right [...]
Posted in Atom, Browsers, Design, Firefox, General, Internet, Internet Explorer, News, RSS, Webdesign, Webfeeds | 1 Comment »
Other december 9 surprises
Posted on Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Besides the release leakage of GE for Mac. Del.icio.us take-over Like Yahoo! taking hold of del.icio.us. Just as LookSmart did with Furl. Update: The take-over sounds a little strange to me as Yahoo! was working on it’s own del.icio.us/Furl with their My Web 2.0 BETA. Which can save ‘personal’ pages and tag them. We’ll see [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General, Internet, News, Utilities, Yahoo | 2 Comments »
Firefox 1.5 released
Posted on Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
YES!!! The long awaited sequel is here. Get the official update of Firefox. It’s available on Windows, OS X, Linux and some 20 odd language versions. 20 times 3 makes 60, not? See all versions. This release comes with a revamped preference panel, tabbed browsing enhancements, loads of bugfixes, faster back- and forward, … in [...]
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{Canvas} demo
Posted on Monday, November 28th, 2005
If you’re viewing this post with a release candidate of Firefox 1.5, take a look at the below <canvas> demo. For now, you can only walk through a maze from a first person perspective. But it runs smooth and looks pretty impressive. See the “3D Walker” demo on Canvascape PS: It is rumored to work [...]
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Disruptive technology, the Firefox way
Posted on Friday, November 11th, 2005
No this isn’t about Firefox taking over the world. It’s about taking over my ‘browsing experience’. Just moments ago I was minding my bussiness perusing stuff on the internet. When I suddenly was confronted with a popup. A popup? In Firefox??? Yes a popup, pleading me to restart Firefox… No thank you, I’m not ready [...]
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Firefox: “The choice of criminals”
Posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2005
If I may quote the ‘Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths‘ article by C|Net: Internet Explorer hides nothing from police and other investigators who examine PCs to discover which sites the user has visited, according to a class held Wednesday at the annual training meeting of the High Tech Crime Investigation Association. Investigators know the [...]
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Happy Birthday Firefox
Posted on Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
A year ago, to the day, Firefox 1.0 was launched. So I guess a ‘happy birthday’ is in order. In the past year this little app shook up the browser world. Among some of the things accomplished are, in no particular order: Grab a larger than 10% marketshare. Exceeding the ‘promise’ made at launch. Wake [...]
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Extend Firefox Contest
Posted on Saturday, November 5th, 2005
The Mozilla foundation kicked off a competition for Firefox extension developers (to be). So if you have an idea for an new extension or upgrade your existing one, take a look at the extend firefox contest. Do so before January 6, 2006. And it’s not for eternal fame only. There are some nice prices to [...]
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Firefox 1.0.7 released
Posted on Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
According to the release notes: Firefox 1.0.7 is a security and stability release. We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version. This version includes several security and stability fixes, including a fix for a reported buffer overflow vulnerability and a fix for a Linux shell command vulnerability. Get Firefox On a sidenote. [...]
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