about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Firefox 3.5 can tell websites where you’re located so you can find info that’s more relevant and more useful. Websites that use location-aware browsing will ask where you are in order to bring you more relevant information, or to save you time while searching. Let’s say you’re looking for a pizza restaurant in your area.
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A Windows only experimental Firefox extension called FoxTab introduces a new tab switching interface to Firefox. FoxTab comes complete with five different thumb nailed views and man is it awesome. FoxTab provides a new fascinating and elegant method for finding and selecting a tab in the browser. FoxTab is designed to be suitable for many
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FireFox has always been a good browser, but as of the latest release has become THE browser that I use daily. FireFox extensions make it wickedly powerful. As a web developer I find many of the extensions invaluable. Here’s the best of the best… Web developer`s toolbar Web Developer`s tool bar probably will become one
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CNET ran benchmarks on the newly release Google Chrome browser. It turns out that not only does Chrome beat the competition, it completely annihilated them. Here’s the site description of the speed tests: • Richards: OS kernel simulation benchmark, originally written in BCPL by Martin Richards (539 lines). • DeltaBlue: One-way constraint solver, originally written in Smalltalk
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Google announced it will release a brand new open source web browser called Google Chrome. Yesterday a site went up, and has subsequently been taken down at http://gears.google.com/chrome/?hl=en (as of this morning clicking this link take you back to regular old Google). According to Crunchbase the features include: Tabbed browsing where each tab gets its
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
If you visit a website with either an expired or a self-signed SSL certificate, Firefox 3 will not show that page at all. Instead, the browser shows the “customs officer†graphic and an error saying the website may be dangerous. Apparently this is seen as an issue by some people (I dig it.. and you
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Windows Vista includes a feature, “Receive Window Auto-Tuning,” that you’ve likely never seen mentioned on your desktop, but which can cause noticeable drag and even crashing when browsing certain web sites or using some routers or other network hardware. If you’re noticing browsing glitches that only occur in Vista, the Wise Bread blog has a