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Given A Choice Between A Web UI And A RIA UI, ...
... I would always choose (as a user) the RIA! Up until a couple of days ago, that was a theoretical assumption. Then something happened that validated my assumption. It's not from Google or Amazon or eBay. It's from my ISP, the one that was bought...
Jan 2, 2008
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My Firefox, Uh, Iceweasal, Still Does This
In Does Your Firefox Do This?, (posted 576 days ago), I showed how the Firefox browser that came with the Linux distribution I was using at the time, Fedora Core 3 (or 4), won't print page headers or footers. Well, since then, on every version of Linu...
Jul 25, 2007
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Software Update: I Don't Want To Restart Now!
Both Firefox and Thunderbird have instituted automatic software update features whereby the browser and email reader periodically check their home sites to download any updates. This is a good thing, in my opinion. However, both programs has also got...
Mar 2, 2007
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Firefox 2.0 Adds Bloglines Support
A few days after Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7.0, The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 2.0. I installed Firefox 2.0 today and everything seems to still work. One thing I worry about when upgrading Firefox is whether the extensions will st...
Oct 25, 2006
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Peculiar Error Message From Firefox
Help! I received this error message from Firefox when I tried to start it: I'd appreciate any hint, help, pointer that anybody can give me. Thanks, -- Weiqi Gao
Apr 21, 2006
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Use Firefox, Break Up With Fiancé
(Via Ranjit Mathew) Mozilla Bug 330884: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create 2 unique user accounts (for steps sake, let's call the two accounts Joe and Mary) in Windows XP Home. 2. Logout and sign-in under Joe. 3. Open Firefox and go to an e-mail site or t...
Mar 23, 2006
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And You Call That A Thin Client?
Here today's test: Guess, without looking at the task manager or running top(1) or ps(1), how much memory your web browser is using. Write that number down. Now look at the task manager and find out how much memory your browser is really using. Did...
Mar 2, 2006
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Hit F7 If You Are In Firefox
Hit F7 If You Are In Firefox.
Feb 21, 2006
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Does Your Firefox Do This?
First of all, Merry Christmas. I have observed, but not investigated why, Firefox (and Netscape and Mozilla before it) wouldn't print page headers and footers on my Linux machine. I have always thought the browser will print headers and footers on Wi...
Dec 26, 2005
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Piling On
JT Morée, on SLUUG mailing list: since all of the journalists are SO EAGER to publish firefox 'exploits' EVEN if they are really just regular bugs I thought I find one too. It's not a bug but hopefully everyone will look past that fact with all the hy...
Dec 9, 2005
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Native XML Comes To Firefox 1.5's JavaScript
I first blogged about E4X 425 days ago. At the time it was only available in Rhino. I'm happy to note that E4X support is part of JavaScript 1.6, which is delivered with Firefox 1.5. As a simple illustration, the following line (in a red box, which y...
Dec 4, 2005
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Firefox 1.5 Is Here
Just installed Firefox 1.5, released a couple of days ago. I've been looking forward to this release ever since Kevin, who's been using the betas for a while, showed me a feature that'll make my life a little better. In Firefox 1.0, if I'm in the mid...
Dec 1, 2005