Tag: Browsers

  • Don't install Safari on Windows!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Wow that was fast! Apple released a beta of their Safari browser last night to run on Windows and a few short hours later, vulnerabilities which allow remote code execution have been published already! It looks like Safari for Windows was released a little early. Whatever about the small functionality bug I found, the ability…

  • Safari 3 for Windows. New OS, same missing features!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I saw from Engadget that Apple have released a new beta version of their browser, Safari, which will run on Windows. There are versions for Windows XP and Windows Vista. I downloaded it and installed on an XP machine and it does appear to run quite quickly. However, Apple still haven’t addressed Safari’s biggest bug…

  • Time to stop using Safari?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Oh dear, Dr. Macenstein is reporting that Safari is a resource hog – using up to 76% more resources than Firefox. According to Dr. Macenstien Safari grabs resources from the system even when idle in the background: It seems to me that a background application, especially one that should not really be doing anything all…

  • How to advertise to me

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    Tom Raftery
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    Advertising any product to me is becoming more and more difficult. It is not just me, there is a growing number of people who are discovering ways to skip ads almost completely in their daily lives. In my own case, I honestly can’t remember the last time I bought a newspaper but it would be…

  • IE7 add-ons

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    Via Rob Burke, I saw a blog post on the IE blog listing add-ons which are available for IE7 and pointing out a site listing over 400 add-ons. It is cool that there are now add-ons for IE7 which now give me functionality similar to that I already have in Firefox 2 (in many cases…

  • Internet Explorer 7 has been released

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    Tom Raftery
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    Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) has been released according to Dean Hachamovitch on the the IE7 blog. It is now available for download here. IE7 will be rolled out via a critical Windows update in the coming weeks which, as I have mentioned previously, will become a support nightmare. For this version it would make a…

  • Firefox 2.0 rc2 GB keeps crashing

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    Tom Raftery
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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….…