Firefox

Visiting the Microsoft Office Live Workspace promises to allow users to store as many a 1000 documents online and share them with colleagues. Sounds good. Unless you try and sign up for the free service and you’re running Linux. If you are running Linux then you’ll be greeted with a screen informing you that you’ll need to be running a version of Windows or MacOSX and either Internet Explorer or Firefox (good to see Firefox in there).

Fue después de leer ayer tarde esta entrada de Andrés Nieto que se me ocurrió que quedaría bonito hacer una comparativa del estado actual de las betas de Explorer y Firefox. Y aquí está. Con todos ustedes el navegador más usado del panorama y el intrépido aspirante:

But if you’re using Firefox, which you should be instead of the annoying IE, you can use a script to do a quick fix and be able to access blogspot, wordpress, wikipedia, and livejournal.

Then came the Firefox Web Developer Toolbar, and things started to get a whole lot easier. The Firefox Firebug extension and the IE Web Developer Toolbar let you work interactively with the the two main browsers, albeit one at a time. I usually pick one or the other, get a design working, and verify / fix it in the other browser.

Mientras tanto, lo que para uno es perdida para otros son ganancias y así Firefox se lleva la mayor parte ganando un 5.64% de cuota seguido de Google Desktop (1.74%), Mozilla de forma genérica — seguramente alguna variante que use el motor Gecko — con un 0.41% y Opera con un 1.08%.

Every few months I get tired of Firefox chewing memory and hanging every 2-3 days, and decide to return to Safari. It’s a dilemma: Safari’s speed, elegance, and stability, or Firefox’s wealth of plugins? For now, I’m going to put speed and stability first and make Safari primary again. I can switch over when I need to do something Safari can’t do.

In short, Haute Secure is a Malware Filter, much like a Phishing or Spam Filter in existing applications. It provides a beautiful (you really have to see it!) interface and toolbar to IE (and soon Firefox) which protects users from incoming malware on a variety of levels, starting from the site level to the execution level. If cnn.com were to be hacked tomorrow with an unreleased exploit that would attempt to download a worm or other malware on visitors’ machines, Haute would be able to detect that, and block the exploit from happening.

The width and height can be modified to any size you want. The autoplay feature and looping can be turned on and off by using “true” or “false”. So far, I tested it on my old mac in Firefox and Safari. It works in Firefox, but not so well in Safari, in fact, not at all in Safari. All I see is the static quicktime logo sitting there, all quiet, taunting me. If your on a windows machine, I’d like to know if you’re able to play the clip.

Alright, so there wasn’t any actual kissing going on, but there was a great meeting on OpenID and Firefox 3.0 at Mozilla this afternoon. We’ve heard that Mozilla was interested in supporting OpenID in Firefox 3.0, but what does that really mean?

digg tiene demasiados clones, con el éxito del sitio han aparecido clones en casi todos los idiomas, en español el más conocido es menéame, que no se le acerca ni a los talones a la elaborada arquitectura de digg, menéame es otro sitio que he probado por un tiempo y me ha decepcionado. Está lleno de gente que echa abajo la mayoría de las noticias que se publican, se siente una mala onda en el sitio. Como si las únicas noticias importantes fueran del último productos de Apple, o de la última versión de Firefox.

On the other side, Firefox had a single 9 day window of vulnerability to an exploit.

When in Windows I use FeedDemon and have used many others; but I like FeedDemon and pretty well live in it :). I can’t say the same for any of the offerings I have seen or tried for Linux. I even tried a couple of the ones that are available as Firefox extensions but I never liked them in Windows and that feeling hasn’t changed on this side of the bridge either.

I’ve pointed other people at the Minimo Project, a minimized version of Firefox for Windows Mobile. I don’t have a Windows Mobile device, so I have not been able to test yet. However, since I am looking at a new phone due to the endless resets of my Treo 650, I have been looking at browsers other than Pocket IE. Reviews I have received are pretty good.

To celebrate the launch of Firefox2.0, Mozilla foundation held the Firefox summit 2006 at Mountain View office, the headquarter near Google office. As I know, this is the second time that this summit is held. It's great that I can have such a chance to be here, get to know some guys who I only know the nickname from the IRC channel or the bugzilla. To share some idea with some other guys who can't be here, I'd like to draft some stuff in the following days. Hope it helpful.

The goal of the “Tamarin” project is to implement a high-performance, open source implementation of the ECMAScript 4th edition (ES4) language specification. The Tamarin virtual machine will be used by Mozilla within SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, and other products based on Mozilla technology. The code will continue to be used by Adobe as part of the ActionScript(tm) Virtual Machine within Adobe® Flash® Player.

It seems there's a bit of confusion preceeding the release of Firefox (FF) 2.0

For the past few months, since upgrading Firefox to one of the 2.0 betas, I've been somewhat lost without my handy del.icio.us integration courtesy of the official del.icio.us extension for Firefox (which isn't 2.0-compatible).

I like the tabbed browsing so far, initially when I first used it in Firefox, I didn’t like it, but it was just because I was used to alt tabbing between windows, etc, but, I’m old and set in my ways. This is a lot better than the grouping that was introduced in earlier versions; I turned that off in about 2 seconds.

On a tech note, I have been playing around with web browsers of late. I was using Safari but, alas, the WYSIWYG text editors on the Content Management Systems that I use did not work with it (Apple: take note!); so, dissatisfied with Firefox's speed (although they are building a Mac OS Cocoa version, codenamed Minefield, which appears to be a little swifter), I then swapped to the Mozilla-based Mac OS 10-only browser Camino.

I’ve thought a lot recently about how extensible an app like Firefox is, and that it conceivably could actually be the only piece of software I’d need. With extensions, Greasemonkey and AJAXy web apps, it could work.

If you want your firefox browser faster and more faster .. you can try this trick .. i dont know if this trick can called ‘hacked’ firefox, but just try it and all works!

Gestern wurde die Release 2.0 Beta 1 des Firefox freigegeben. Auf Lifehacker.com gibt es Screenshots.

It’s nice to see almost 40% of German netizens using Mozilla Firefox - free software - for their browsing needs.

FootieFox es otra extensión que, como Joga Companion, sirve para mantenerte al tanto de los resultados del Mundial… pero no sólo del Mundial, también de más de 18 ligas europeas y varios campeonatos internacionales, algo interesante pues el fútbol no se acaba con la final del Mundial. La extensión avisa los goles con señales audiovisuales, anuncia los resultados en una parte de la barra de estado de Firefox y tiene varias otras funciones.

La pregunta estará rondando por vuestra cabeza ahora será: ¿Qué acontecerá si coloco algún código de esos, ahora, en un HTML para probarlo con mi bonito Firefox? …

Eine sehr coole Firefox Extension zur WM. Man kann den Skin anpassen (bei mir natürlich England) und es gibt Videos und Ergebnisse eingeblendet.

Although I have Opera installed on my PC (as well as IE7, Flock, Firefox, and Maxthon) I don’t really use it much, but maybe with this latest update I might, as it seems to have some very useful features.

Firefox 質問スレ part 31 に、Web Developer のツールバーのラベルの文字列を少なくしたいという質問が出ていました。メインメニューの表示を変えるには、Shortmenu を使えば簡単に出来るんですが、拡張機能のツールバーだとそうは行きません。ということでどうにかできないかと考えました。

I’ve been working on a flyout menu for NS tonight and I was able to make it work. Except it only worked in Firefox, and not in IE. I personally thing the whole world should be using Firefox … but from looking at the site logs, 56% of the visitors use IE, a total of 38% use Firefox, and a scant 6% use Safari.

But beyond the slow factor (which may or may not be a short term thing), there's the ugliness factor. By default it shows a bunch of irrelevant stuff that I don't care about. Sure I can customise it so it shows content I'm interested in - but that takes effort to learn how, and Ma and Pa Bloggs from next door aren't going to go to the effort. Sure it can be customised to what I want - but so can the bookmarks in my browser. It's incredibly simple to set up buttons in Firefox that will bring the local weather up with one click, bring the white pages up with one click, bring google search up with one click - bring my other most used sites up with one click. It's a hell of a lot more simple to do this with the browser than it is with Live.com. Also - why would I want to deal with an overloaded screen each time the browser loads? The answer is - I don't. There's too much noise in my life - I want less. (MS packaging of Ipod anyone?)

I picked this off the Drudge Report this evening from the New York Times: New Microsoft Browser Raises Google’s Hackles. Give me a break. Google complains about IE 7’s search box in its upper right hand corner. Its just stupid. Google thinks the IE 7 search box puts Microsoft in a unfair advantage for its default being MSN Search (Microsoft’s search engine). Ok so if Microsoft can’t put a search box in the upper right hand corner of their browser, is it fair that Firefox can? I mean Firefox pretty much uses the same concept already and has been for quite some time now. I’m tired of double standards.

That being said, if you find Univ.Bin’s for your favorite proggies, you’ll be golden. I’m using Camino, which everyone should be using anyway (http://www.caminobrowser.org/). Firefox ate system like a pig in a patato patch. Camino= better looking and works great. I also am using Adium for my Instant Messaging, which isn’t as pretty as MSN for mac, but supports display pics and your basic emoticons (in a huge range of IM protocols) and is very fast.

and unfortunately it has nothing to do with sex. No. I am on my knees begging you all to use Firefox. Thanks to sammelsurium (who just translated this post for Blog Against Sexism Day) for pointing out that my new design looked like utter shit in Internet Explorer. I was a bad designer and didn’t think to check to see if it worked in IE. I’ve just spent a few hours working on the bugs and i think i fixed most of them. However, for now you IE users still won’t be able to correctly view some of the graphics (like the ‘blogroll’ and ‘metafied’ images on the right) because they are PNGs. I’d like to switch them to another format so that all you stubborn IE users can get the full transparent experience, but they just don’t look right. Perhaps i’ll figure it all out later, but for now you’re just going to have to get Firefox or deal with it. Sorry.

I have successfully tested this file format with both IE and Firefox. It is provided below as an example for you to utilize, but I make no warranties or claims of fitness-to-purpose. There are many additional testing conditions that might be more relevant to another environment or set of business policies (e.g. Time-of-day, day-of-week, DNS information, etc.).

I’ve been using the Firefox View in IE Extension for about a year or so now and I love it. Like a lot of companies, Yahoo has a ton of web based applications that I rely on to do my day to day looking up orders, looking at contracts, accessing marketing materials, etc. Unfortunately, a lot of these applications are a bit dated and don’t necessarily play well with Firefox. Therefore, I have become extremly reliant on the View in IE Extension. If I find a page that isn’t working, simply right click and a new IE window opens up. It was great.

Web Developer Extension is an extension for open source Mozilla Firefox and Flock browsers. It provides two categories of utilities - one which will dissect the HTML page that has been visited - analyse each and every component, and a set of tools to test compliance to standards. Because of this combination, it provides critical value in the convenient form of a toolbar.

Take WordPress for example. It is a predecessor of b2, which became dormant in the past. Netscape and its evolution towards Mozilla and Firefox resulted in what is arguably the best Web browser, among many browsers in existence. AbiWord, KOffice, OpenOffice and StarOffice share some common fundamental codebase and they all (if not most) are here to stay. This comes to show the power of looking upon the shoulders of others, constantly extending in this code-driven community.

Oooh. The alure of an Aqua interface is too much for me. I just downloaded Camino for my Mac. It’s made by the people who make FireFox and uses the same rendering engine except they made it look more like a native Mac app. I’m already loving it. It just looks nicer. To me it’s just FireFox with a nicer looking outside. Plus it has integration with a bunch of Mac apps. If you have a Mac, I highly recommend you check out Camino.

There are a few interesting links. One is the lookup service at http://www.lashback.com/register/UnsubsafeLookup.aspx and another is a downloadable blacklist at http://lashback.com/ubl.htm which is available in different formats. They also have an SDK and a web service but you need to have a client key number to use it which I doubt is something you can get for free. If it was free to use then I think a Firefox plugin would be nice for submitting and checking. Perhaps there is a way to use the free stuff though. Something to look at in the future. Almost forgot, they also have a blog but it doesn't get updated much.

From the Mozilla wiki page,the alpha version of Firefox 2.0 is coming out February 10, 2006.

And guess what, it hasn’t crashed or even slowed down. Its very very fast, maybe even faster than Firefox by my rekkoning. The interface isn’t the best but bares strong resemblence to Firefox. Its very lightweight and easy to run, plus since its an uncommonly used browser, its way safer than Firefox; more so than IE. K-Meleon uses the same gecko rendering engine found in Firefox so there won’t be any page incompatibility, viewing or rendering issues here.

Reveal crea mini-imágenes de las páginas que tenemos en los tabs de firefox, dejandonos elegir, reordenar, las págínas que tenemos abiertas.

To be fair, it’s not his fault all those ‘wares were on his computer. My sister also uses that computer as well. My sister refuses to switch over to Firefox because she does not like its “look” and that some of her sites won’t work in Firefox. It’s really frustrating knowing that someone is still using IE in this day and age.

What happens next depends on your Web browser and it's settings. I'll detail what happens in Mozilla Firefox first. Then we'll talk about Internet Explorer.

I got a bit excited today when I went over to the FatMixx SiteMeter Report page because I noticed in FireFox that the RSS icon was present in the location bar, indicating that there was an RSS feed for that page. I was hoping they did what Measure Map did, with personalized feeds for my site. I was surprised that there wasn’t an announcement on the SiteMeter blogs. So I checked out what RSS feed they were pointing at. Turns out the feed tag in the source points to the RSS feed for the SiteMeter weblog. Booo! The RSS icon is only supposed to show on pages that have RSS feeds for the content on that page. Not just that the site somewhere has an RSS feed about something. Booo again!

I can’t use Firefox to browse my Windows Live Mail (email box) Damn it. Microsoft suc*s.

I would really like to use a spell checker on all my various posting excursions on the Internet. I blog. I Whirlpool. I e-mail. Surely it would be good to have a spell checker, just to make sure I’m hitting the right buttons? I have been using the Google Firefox toolbar for its spell check feature; it’s actually the only feature I use. But it looks like it’s incompatible with Wordpress’ new ajaxified ‘Write Post’ section. Bummer.

次にちゃんと会社用のPCを購入した際には、完全にFirefoxへ移行しようと思ってるのだが・・・

As of now, Protopage allows you to have frames that contain RSS Feeds (your choice and predefined sets), bookmarks/links, and a panel for sticky notes. I have not found that Protopage allows for user defined plugins or extensions, which limits its ability for expansion. They have just made it so that IE and Firefox users can use the scroll bar on their mouses to scroll down the RSS feeds, this is an example of how Protopage is still in the early stages and has quite a few things that it still needs to work out.

Gripes aside, Google Pack really helped me. I assumed it would be a nice way to save time managing programs on my fiancé’s computer, but seeing as my PC is pretty much bare (it has a few games, Firefox, Tortoise SVN, InstantRails and a text editor installed), I actually found it very useful. I noticed a lot of digg.com readers commenting that Google were becoming ‘bloated’, or doing too much, but it worked nicely for me!

If you recall, there were significant problems with Firefox (then called Mozilla) development two years ago. An ongoing problem was that there didn’t seem to be a lot of development …. new versions took ages to come out. But the second problem, and probably the one that scared Apple off most of all, was code bloat. Mozilla/Firefox had a LOT of code, was a big download, hogged memory, and was sloowwwww ….

PortableApps.com announces a version of OpenOffice.org that will fit on and run from a USB stick. I keep a 64 meg stick in my pocket with portable versions of Firefox, Thunderbird and the Miranda IM client. Sadly, I’ll need to upgrade if I want to run oo.

Well, I’ve succombed to the hype and switched to Performancing. Seems like a very good implementation. So I’m going back to using Firefox as my main browser. I miss some of Flock’s features already, such as auto-search through history and favorites while typing in the search box.

“IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox.

I’m a fan of DKos and a fan of Firefox. I’m also a fan of the DKos RPXP tool… which made it quite the confusing notion of whether to upgrade to v1.5 of Firefox when the RPXP tool hadn’t been modified for v1.5 compatibility.

If you do decide to test it out there are a few necessities that I recommend. First, find and download the Firefox extension that allows book marking and tagging on the fly (assuming you use Firefox). Otherwise you’ll have to navigate from the site you want to bookmark to del.icio.us’ site to add it and tag it. Also figure out how to back up your critical bookmarks (maybe by tagging them as such). It has an export capability into a browser friendly version and considering the recent complaints about their outage, you might want to have a back up plan.

This came about when espa made a great looking mod of the Safari FX theme for 1.07 that is totally incompatible with the recently released firefox 1.5. I tried to make something that will look okay and hold people over until a proper version is released by someone who knows what they’re doing.

Foxmarks is an extension for Firefox that synchronizes bookmarks across multiple machines.

Apparently Firefox logs URL data in history.dat, meaning that it will save titles. If we make our title long enough, such as with the following bit of javascript, we can execute a denial of service (DOS) attack against Firefox the next time it loads:

This webpage is officially “Too Cool for IE”. Until Microsoft gets their act together, I have decided to forget about supporting Internet Explorer and continue using CSS tags that IE does not support. So if you are using Internet Explorer, please do yourself a favor and get Firefox!

RSS on the other hand, requires little bandwidth and is one of the biggest changes I have made to my web browsing habits over the past couple of months. Before I started using RSS, I would have to click on a whole bunch of bookmarks to have my daily “update” of news. But since most sites worth reading now have RSS feeds, it makes sense to use an application or plugin to consolidate your information gathering and minimize the effort needed to retrieve that information. There’s many RSS readers out there, but the one I use is a Firefox plugin called Sage. It installs in seconds, integrates with any Live Bookmarks you may already have in your bookmarks, and allows you to take advantage of tabbed browsing and all the other goodies that Firefox has. You can even customize the look of feeds by editing a CSS template!

Here's a post by Marshall Kirkpatrick that describes a bookmarklet he created, complete with demo and link to a screencast on how to use it. In Firefox you can drag the Javascript link to the tab bar and use it with CS or any blogging app. That doesn't work in IE and Maxthon, which I use about 95% of the time (old habits...).

En Toni ens diu que ja podem descarregar de forma oficial la versió 1.5 de Firefox en la nostra llengua!

That will change, as the tools used by the great unwashed pick up and highlight RSS functionality. That’s not Newsgator or Firefox, but IE and Windows.

It seems a decent amount of people I know have made the switch already. Not to worry, if you know someone who has not switched over to Firefox, send them this way. It’s not costing them anything but time, time that they have wasted using other browsers that can’t standup to Firefox. Ask your browser “Browser, would you like to go in to the octagon with Firefox and tap out in five seconds?”. I think you know the answer. In case you don’t, your browser said “No thanks, Firefox looks like a beast. He’s gotta be on the juice”.

Got some real work done for a client. I’m really thankful for web standards like HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS. I did some conversion of some client web pages over to HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS. I tested in Mozilla/Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera. Uploaded the finished web pages and notified the client. Then, I thought about doing a google search to see if there was a way to view the client’s web site using older browser standards. Whew! There was http://anybrowser.com and the client’s web pages degraded gracefully to the older web standards. Thanks in most part to HTML 4.01 Strict and CSS and the engineers who had the foresight to allow for graceful degradation. Thanks guys!

« Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 2 is available

US CERT, part of the Department of Homeland Security continues to recommend that users of Internet Explorer “use a different web browser”. The folks there can’t say it but we all know what they want to say and that’s use Firefox.

I know what you’re saying: why would I ever want to touch IE once I have Firefox? Some sites still don’t support open-source browsers, so you’re forced to use IE. When you encounter one of these sites, you need to go find that burried application that you deleted the shortcut to becuase you never thought you’d need it again, and go from there. With this simple Firefox extention, you can now run an instance of IE as a tab inside of Firefox! Very cool!

Just grabbed my copy of Firefox 1.5 RC 1. A few minor improvements. Beta 2 was a more significant upgrade, especially on Mac. Other than a few extensions I had to hack to get working, it’s been pretty smooth.

Check out “Flock” (a FireFox derivative) here - www.flock.com.

Phonifier is an open source mobile transcoder. Like loband, I wasn’t able to get it to work with any of several phones and emulators from Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola and Openwave. In all cases I got either a blank screen or a screen with some text but missing the text field for entering the target url and/or the submit button. I think the problem is that Phonifier uses the same html page for both mobile and desktop browsers. There are separate stylesheets for media=’screen’ and media=’handheld’. The handheld stylesheet makes all of the extraneous text invisible. Mobile browser support for media=’handheld’ is still very limited and apparently none of the browsers I’m using support it correctly. This is a pretty inefficient way to make a mobile page as the browser still has to download a lot of content that it ends up throwing away. A better solution would be to have a separate mobile specific homepage with it’s own url. I was able to see how Phonifier is supposed to work by using Firefox and the Web Developer extension to force the use of the handheld stylesheet. I was also able to load the site on the Access Smartphone browser but even here the browser did not use the handheld stylesheet!. Fortunately, only the initial Phonifier page where you enter the url you want to transcode has this problem.

I am currently trying out the new browser called “Flock.” It has this awesome intergrated blogging feature but it’s basically Firefox 1.5 with some extensions and a skin.

themediaslut got hold of a video recording at a security forum event recently held in Singapore.

Don Sambandaraksa, for the Bangkok Post, post a question asking about the feasibility of OS developers, like Microsoft, embedding security applications in their OS in the future.

My dream recommendation, given any amount of resources being made available, is that OO.o be ported to Gtk. Then, it would be restructured to be the Firefox of office software - a lean core functionality and a flexible “Extensions” mechanism. This would hopefully lower the barrier-to-entry for programmers sufficiently as to encourage wide participation by people interested in improving the office suite. The lean core could then be focused on and maintained more effectively than the massive bulk of the do-it-all office program.

On the other hand, Firefox 1.x has 3 out of 25 Secunia advisories that are marked as “Unpatched”, and a partially patched bug. Opera 8.x so far is free from any vulnerabilities.

Looking around for current browser statistics, I found the w3schools statistics. w3schools is primarily visited by the web development community. I was curious if Firefox was still slumping in popularity, which it is. In fact the decline has started picking up in pace.

I have successfully installed “Bork Bork Bork!” plugin for Mozilla Firefox. What is this Bork Bork Bork thing? Well, it is related to the swedish cook that used to appear in Sesame Street. Wanna know more about him? You have some info here, but you can also see the Bork Bork Bork edition of Google, and the Opera Bork Version.