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Testing Firefox 3.5 ... mind your add-ons!

Testing Firefox 3.5 ... mind your add-ons!Testing Firefox?Adrian, your entry here dated 30Jun09 is all over the place. First, do you realize that Firefox 3.5 was officially released today, 30Jun09? If yes, then what is the deal with this sentence, "If you find that a must-have add-on is hosed, you...

Tags: Web site development, Web browsers, V3.5, Testing, Testing Firefox 3.5

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Firebug 1.4 (Windows)

Firebug is an open-source Firefox extension that puts a wealth of Web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, profile and monitor CSS, HTML, XMLHttpRequests and JavaScript in any Web page in real time.Version 1.4 includes Curtis Bartley's Tabs-on-top UI and Han Hillen's accessibility and...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Firebug, CSS, Channel Management, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-19

eEye spies new code-exection Windows hole

eEye spies new code-exection Windows holeYOWB - Year of Windows Bugs?NTRyan, don't forget theseHow comes you managed to miss these high risk vulnerabilities?[url=http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464719/30/0/threaded]Mozilla Firefox Insecure Element Stealth Injection Vulnerability[/url]and [url=http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464740/30/0/threaded]Firefox extensions go Evil - Critical Vulnerabilities in Firefox/Firebug[/url]and[url=http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464724/30/0/threaded]High Risk Vulnerability in OpenOffice[/url]I'm sure it was just an oversight...Silent fixes --...

Tags: Web browsers, OpenOffice, SECURITY, Web browser, Firefox/Firebug, vulnerability, Firebug, chrome, flaw, eEye Digital Security, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

Mozilla mulls Windows cursor flaw fix of its own

Mozilla mulls Windows cursor flaw fix of its ownThe patch doesn't work for meits windoze based!Firefox extensions go Evil - Critical VulnerabilitiesFirefox extensions go Evil - Critical Vulnerabilitieswww.gnucitizen.org/blog/firebug-goes-evilThere is critical vulnerability in Firefox/Firebug which allowsattackers to inject code inside the browser chrome. This can lead to alot of problems. Theoretically...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Mozilla Corp., MS Updates, Mozilla Firefox, POC, Firebug, Firefox Users, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

Mozilla to ship Firefox 'workaround' for .ANI exploit

Mozilla to ship Firefox 'workaround' for .ANI exploitWhy not just patch?What's the point? Why not just apply the patch, something you should do anyuway?Firefox / Firebug critical vulnerability!! (

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Firebug, Mozilla Corp., vulnerability

Discussion threads 2007-04-04

Additional Resources

February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet Explorer

RE: February 2013 - The date when Firefox could pass Internet ExplorerThat does assume that everything remains constant, which it won't. If someone creates a new browser that could disrupt it, or when either company releases a new version of their browser that is also going to throw things...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Quicker than you can say Facebook Lite

Last time I checked, when you logged into Facebook's home page, over 1 megabyte of Javascript was being executed. For a dialup connection, that could take up to 3 minutes to load. Welcome to Facebook Lite Techmeme: When I tested...

Tags: Facebook, Photos Page, AJAX, Social Networking, Construction, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-09-10

Philip Schiller: Apple's fireman (and perhaps most valuable exec)

That's part of the planThe plan is to de-emphasize Steve and to put "Apple The Company" and "Apple The Products" front and center. 1. Jobs resigned from having the keynote at MWSF2. Cook was put center stage while Jobs was on leave and AAPL stock rose well in that time3....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Apple Inc., fireman, Phil

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Is the geek love affair with Firefox waning?

Is the geek love affair with Firefox waning?Well, since you brought it up...I'm perfectly willing to be undeserving of you as a friend, customer, or user. I certainly hope your sense of ethics doesn't extend to your food purchases, otherwise you're in for a slow, painful demise.PrinciplesI will NOT...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

iPhone developer: You need Apple but Apple doesn't need you

iPhone developer: You need Apple but Apple doesn't need youDevelopers Developers Developers....Isn't this the same mistake Microsoft made that allowed other browsers to break into their chokehold? No sane web developer nowadays would develop for IE first when there are nice tools like Firebug in Firefox. In the...

Tags: Web browsers, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., developer, IPHONE IS

Discussion threads 2009-03-08

Is Safari 4 the new default browser for web coding?

Apple released a new version of their browser today that claims to be 30 times faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 3 times faster than Mozilla Firefox at handing Javascript. Many websites of today depend on this behavior-driven language to operate, so this is an...

Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-02-24

How to make your website really, really fast

How to make your website really, really fastBest Performance..Make it Lynx optimised ;) Sorry, couldn't resist making that joke :)RE: How to make your website really, really fastQuote from recent Forrester report " the key to web performance is a multidiscplinary approach that focuses not only on raw speed but...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, poor user, Web site, user experience

Discussion threads 2009-02-10

How to make your website really, really fast

Steve Souders knows how to make a website speed through a web browser. And he works at Google, one of the fastest websites around. Web performace is a two-pronged beast: efficiency and response time. Efficiency deals with the scalability challenges...

Tags: Script, Web Site, Web Browser, Steve Souders, JS, Cuzillion, HTTPWatch, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Performance Management, Web Browsers, Scripting Languages, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Google Chrome vulnerable to data theft flaw

Google Chrome vulnerable to data theft flawChrome vs IEI'm having a hard time really get too concerned about issues raised about non MW browsers. For years the public was ignorantly suffering under the merciless dictatorship of IE, never aware of other options. Poor MS now they are having...

Tags: Web browsers, Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Inc., Google Chrome, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-13

Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn

Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burnRE: Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burnThe key reason they developed their own browser was for mobile browsing, which is expected to be more and more dominant in coming years. Chrome would be a good browser for the Google Android...

Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Day 2: iPhone Dev Camp 2

Yesterday I learned a few lessons about live blogging. Not many people are refreshing it as much as I was. I should list my posts with most recent at the top instead of the other way around. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, App, Melodies, Medialets, Games, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-03

Why I still prefer Internet Explorer

Why I still prefer Internet ExplorerWell everybody is entitled to their opinionHowever, I was expecting an argument as to why you as a user preferred IE. Instead I got why you as a programmer like IE. Well that's kind of like going to a restaurant and having the waiter tell...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web browser, CSS, JavaScript

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Mobile Firefox "Fennec" critical to maintaining Mozilla's momentum

Now that Firefox 3 has launched, the Mozilla team is hopefully after a vacation at work on the next updates, including a major mobile version. Mozilla’s mobile web browser, which is under development as part of Firefox 4 platform and code named Fennec, won’t launch until 2009. Still,...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Mobile, Mozilla Corp., Fennec, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Mozilla "Download Day" - Are you in or out?

Mozilla "Download Day" - Are you in or out?I secondThe attempt is lame but I think that once it enters the world's book of records, it might attract some new users out of curiosity. It is a marketing stunt that might work.Me, I'll wait for Ubuntu's automagic update as well.Ditto....

Tags: Public relations, Web browsers, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

Firefox 3 RC1 code complete, due in late May

Firefox 3 RC1 code complete, due in late Maycan't waitI run Firefox 3 beta at home on both my Mac and Windows PC, and I can run it for a few weeks before images and stylesheets stop loading. That's the only performance bug I notice in my usage. On...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Firefox 3 RC1, late-May

Discussion threads 2008-05-12