88 posts tagged “firefox”
Mozilla's Firefox browser.
2005
Firefox 1.5 developer highlights
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is out, and is the most exciting browser release in a very long time. It comes with the Gecko 1.8 rendering engine, which includes a ton of interesting new features. New in this version (unless you’ve been tinkering with the Deer Park series):
[... 719 words]Dissecting the Google Firefox Toolbar
Google have finally released a Firefox version of the Google Toolbar, with some nice praise for XUL in to the bargain. Of course, the most interesting part of the toolbar from a geeky point of view is the bit that queries Google’s servers for PageRank. Sure enough, if you download the google-toolbar.xpi file, unzip it, then unzip the google-toolbar.jar file within there’s a file called pagerank.js with all of the juicy details.
Google Firefox Extensions. Google Toolbar, Google Send to Phone and Google Suggest.
Blake Ross: The new Firefox tag line (via) Blake claims this is a true story. If it is, wow!
View formatted source extension for Firefox (via) I haven’t tried this yet, but apparently it’s a big improvement.
Greasemonkey: Yet Another Reason to Use Firefox. Great writeup of Greasemonkey on the PC World Techlog(!)
Wired News: Firefox Users Monkey With the Web. Greasemonkey on Wired—and I get quoted!
getSelection() Workaround for Safari 1.3 and Firefox 1.0.3. One of those things that’s just handy to know.
Firefox Counter. How the Firefox counter works.
A Firefox observation
There are (to my knowledge) around 80 people on my undergraduate computer science course. Of those 80, I know of at least fourfive who’s final year project involves writing a Firefox extension of some sort. That’s 1 in 2016.
Aardvark Firefox Extension. Neat extension for exploring (and altering) the layout of a page.
Nasty Firefox vulnerability and Double Standards. In which I am accused of hypocrisy (response in the comments).
Google Video Search: firefox. Recent mentions of Firefox on American TV.
The Daily Express on Firefox. Ish. Amusing example of inaccuracy in mainstream media.
2004
First Look at Firefox-Based Netscape. Interestingly enough, there’s a “display like IE” option.
Mozilla Firefox article on Wikipedia. Today’s featured article.
Mozilla Firefox Start Page. Firefox 1.0 is out. The default home page is hosted by Google.
Wikipedia Firefox extension (via) Adds Wiki-markup shortcuts to the context menu.
Firefox Plush Toy. Awww!
Spread Firefox. They’re aiming for 1,000,000 downloads in 10 days.
Mozilla Firefox—Live Bookmarks (via) Whoa! RSS support built in to Firefox, with a very smart interface.
Why I don’t recommend Firefox. The average user needs more mollycoddling.
Firefox spoof demonstration (via) Scary spoofing attack using XUL.
Wikalong Firefox Extension. I got an email tip off about this one too!
How to write Firefox extensions. Somone emailed me a link to this.
Firefox Extension: Bookmarks Synchronizer (via) Very, very cool. Syncs bookmarks via an FTP server.
Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Release Notes. I just installed 0.9 RC 1 on my Mac. It’s prettier than 0.8.
Two handy FireFox extensions
Just a quick plug for a couple of FireFox extensions I’ve been digging recently. Chris Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar / menu extension combines ideas from a whole bunch of other extensions and bookmarklets in to one extremely useful whole. The usual assortment of validation and element outlining options are present, but the really useful tools are “View Cookie Information” and “View Response Headers”. I’ve used separate extensions for these before but it’s handy to have them all in one package.
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