Category: Browsers

  • Firefox 2.0 rc2 GB keeps crashing

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    I downloaded the latest Firefox rc2 this morning. Being based in Ireland I downloaded the English (British) version for my Mac because there is an inbuilt spell checker and I didn’t want all my spelling flagged as incorrect by a US spell checker! Why is spell checking important in a browser? Well, I write all…

  • Microsoft! Open Source Internet Explorer

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    I mentioned previously John C. Dvorak’s PC Magazine article where he calls on Microsoft to abandon development of Internet Explorer because: All of Microsoft’s Internet-era public-relations and legal problems (in some way or another) stem from Internet Explorer. He advised them to: pull the browser out of the OS and discontinue all IE development immediately….…

  • IE7 + Automatic Update = support nightmare!

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    The Internet Explorer development team blog is reporting that they are going to distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high priority update via Automatic Updates. The release date has been set as “the fourth quarter of this year”! While this might, at first glance, seem a little heavy handed Microsoft have some safeguards built into…

  • Firefox 2 Beta 1 review

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    Mozilla announced yesterday the release of the latest beta version of Firefox – Firefox 2 Beta 1. I downloaded a copy to try it out. As always on the Mac, install was the extremely straightforward drag and drop. On launching, Firefox checked my extensions and disabled almost all of them (except Adblock – phew!). It…

  • Flock browser review

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    I have been using Flock since it was first released last year and I have been impressed at its progress (if a little frustrated at it’s rate of progress!). I like the seamless implementation of social media like Del.icio.us and Flickr into Flock. In fact, it was Flock which got me into using Del.icio.us. Flock…

  • Microsoft to start supporting Firefox?

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    I write posts here with boring regularity on Microsoft’s latest releases. They all follow a similar pattern – “I have just heard that Microsoft have just released [insert product name here] unfortunately it doesn’t work in Firefox/Mac”. Now, however, I have acquired an unlikely ally in Robert Scoble – Microsoft’s chief blogger! Robert said in…

  • Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 to be abandoned?

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    Microsoft has announced today that Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 is available for download. In the Microsoft announcement, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer development at Microsoft, said the timeline for further releases is: Windows Vista Beta 2, and then Beta 3 of IE7, release candidates, and then a final release before end of…

  • Cool new Firefox plug-in

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    Hyperwords was released yesterday and it is a very cool extension for Firefox and Flock. It has been developed by Liquid-Information an interesting company with an advisory board that reads like a who’s who in IT (Doug Engelbart, Vint Cerf, Ted Nelson, Bruce Horn, Dave Farber, Joi Ito, etc. What does it do? Well, the…