Tag: Browsers

  • Media buttons not displaying in WordPress.com Add New Post screen in Safari

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    I’m new to WordPress.com (though been a WordPress.org user since 2004) so forgive me if this is old news but the WordPress.com New Post dialog box doesn’t display properly in Safari (version 5.03 on OS X 10.6.6, at least). If you look at the image below you can see that the Media buttons normally to…

  • 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…

  • Security Patched Safari for Windows released

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    Apple have released a Security Patched version of Safari for Windows (v 3.0.1). The patch fixes security vulnerabilities in Safari I wrote about earlier this week. There is still no fix for the bug I highlighted earlier this week (clicking on the x to close a window with multiple tabs doesn’t alert you and goes…

  • Firefox 3 alpha quick review

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    Mozilla recently released Gran Paradiso 1.9 Alpha 5 (aka Firefox 3).  This is the up and coming version of Firefox and although still in Alpha, I have been running it for several days now and it  is quite stable. According to the release notes: Gran Paradiso 1.9 Alpha 5 introduces several new features: Bookmarks portion…