Category: Browsers

  • Yahoo! purchase of Del.icio.us confirmed – who is flocking next?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Well, the post I made last night about the Yahoo! Del.icio.us rumours was confirmed this evening when Del.icio.us made the announcement of the takeover on its blog and Yahoo! posted the news also. All day today I was doubting my source ‘cos no-one else picked up the story but, no, it came good. It is…

  • Flock crashing on G5

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    I recently treated myself to an Apple iMac G5 – I needed a new machine bcause of the increasing amount of podcasts I have been doing and my PowerBook’s sound board blew (replacing the sound board on a PowerBook costs over €600). I was using Flock from time to time on the PowerBook (the PowerBook…

  • Firefox 1.5 rc2 released

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    I see Mozilla have released RC2 of Firefox 1.5. RC2 means release candidate 2 – in other words this is not a completed product, it is released as a beta. The release notes for Firefox 1.5 note that RC2 gives several fixes to automated update system over RC1. While RC1 has lots of updates over…

  • New Safari (released version) now passes the Acid2 test

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    The latest release of Safari (v2.02) – released in Mac OS X 10.4.3 today, now passes the Acid2 test – wohoo! Acid2 is a test page, written by the Web Standards Project, to help browser vendors ensure proper support for web standards in their products. Safari is now ahead of every major browser in its…

  • Flock fails to flabbergast!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I struggled for alliteration with that title, didn’t I? Flock is a new browser which was launched overnight – it is still in beta (isn’t everything these days? 1.0 versions are so 90’s!), and it is billed as a browser for Web 2.0! Michael Arrington from TechCrunch broke the story of the launch. I have…

  • Exploit code released for Firefox vulnerability

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    According to Brian Krebs blog on the Washington Post, exploit code has been released for the latest Firefox and Netscape vulnerability. To protect yourself against this code either 1) buy a Mac or 2) update your version of Firefox to the latest version – available here. The exploit code appears to allow an attacker to…

  • Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 released

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    I see Mozilla have released Firefox 1.5 Beta 1. According to the Release Notes here’s what’s new in this release: Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Firefox may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved. Faster browser navigation with improvements…

  • Firefox New Window command not working

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    Tom Raftery
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    I recently upgraded my Firefox install to 1.06 – while I was at it, I upgraded the extensions and added some new ones (GreaseMonkey, SessionSaver, Google Toolbar for Firefox, and Googlebar). After installing all of these and re-starting Firefox a number of times, I realised that the File -> New Window command was no longer…