Category: Browsers

  • Firefox 3.0b1 on OS X Leopard quick review

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    I downloaded and installed the beta version of Firefox 3.0 a few days ago and have been using it since on my OS X Leopard laptop. I also installed the Proto theme for Mac Firefox which significantly enhances the look of Firefox 3 on the Mac. My initial impressions of Firefox 3.0b1 are very positive.…

  • WordPress 2.3, K2 RC2 crashing Safari 2 resolved

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    Since I updated this blog to WordPress 2.3 and K2 RC2, I have been having reports that the blog crashes Safari (but only Safari 2, not Safari 3). Today I think I sorted the problem. I switched the blog from using the native WordPress’ Widgets to manage the sidebar to using K2’s Sidebar Manager and…

  • Crashing Safari?

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    I have had isolated reports that since upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.3 and the theme to K2 RC2, this blog crashes the Safari browser. I’m running Safari version 3.03 on my Mac and it doesn’t crash but I’m told version 2.04 does crash. I have tried turning off some of the sidebar widgets but…

  • Google Facebook offline?

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    Facebook apps are the hot thing at the minute. Everyone who has any kind of a Web 2.0 site has either created one or is in the process of. When I saw this morning that Google were after creating a Facebook app, I was quite curious. According to the article: Google made a lovely app…

  • Adblock – love it or hate it?

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    I wrote a post the other day talking about a blogger who stopped all Firefox users from visiting his site because they may have the Adblock plugin installed! Adblock is a plug-in for Firefox which allows you to view sites on the Internet but avoid seeing the ads they display. I am a big fan…

  • Marcio Galli's talk in Cork

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    Fair dues to Damien Mulley and it@cork for putting on a great Firefox event last night. Marcio Galli is a Consulting Software Developer at Mozilla Foundation based in Brazil. He gave a fascinating talk entitled “Talk: Read, Write, and Recycle the Web with FireFox 3“. Watch the it@cork blog for a detailed review of the…

  • Firefox's marketshare now 27.8% in Europe?

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    Tom’s on holidays, I’ll be your host for today. My name’s Frank P, you might remember me from such blogs as “BifSniff.com”,” FestivalShirts.net/blog” and “Aonach.com/chatter”. Damien asks us what our site stats for Firefox are after reading the results of a survey by XiTi monitor which shows Firefox having 38.6% marketshare in Ireland. You can…

  • Flock 0.9 beta released

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    Flock‘s latest version of their browser, Flock 0.9 was released this morning and I must say I love the new look. The integration with sites like Flickr, Del.icio.us, and YouTube is great but there are still a couple of wrinkles to iron out. For instance, there is a Feeds sidebar. You would imagine that if…