Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
I am currently writing an follow-up full length article for OperaWatch on the Mozilla's RSS icon and its licensing. Unlike the previous OperaWatch story, this story is focused less on the Opera/Mozilla interaction and more on the actual RSS icon, its history, licensing issues and opinions of different communities involved. ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
My good friend Daniel Goldman posted an interesting story at OperaWatch regarding the fact that Mozilla required a singed agreement from Opera Software before allowing them to use their RSS icon. It appears that Mozilla filed for trademarks on this icon and is planning on enforcing a licensing policy. More ...
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Thursday, February 16th, 2006
I recently ran across a nifty project called "TiddlyWiki". One of the things that struct me as interesting features from the programming point of view is the fact that it is able to load and save itself to the user's hard drive using Javascript without any kind of server side ...
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
For quite some time I have been trying to track down a strange Javascript error. In one of the forms in our application, we have a dynamically generated set of DOM form fields generated on the fly via Javascript. Something like "document.myForm.appendField(field);". The page in question worked just fine in ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Among the more persistent bugs I have been chasing recently involves a set of interrelated windows. The case in point was a parent window (A) that opened a child window (B) via JavaScript. The child window (B) was set to check whether the parent window (A) is still open before ...
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Thursday, March 31st, 2005
Sometimes you can guess that a software product has become mainstream enough when a big company starts supporting it. I think this is exactly what just happened with FireFox: Google just announced support for "pre-fetching" - a feature ONLY available on Mozilla browsers. This is a refreshing breath of air ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
I finally got around to upgrading my Mozilla Mail installation to the new Thunderbird client. Unfortunatly, it went less smoothly than I have hoped but it worked. At first, I followed the instructions provided by David Tenser. Unfortunatly, on the Linux side I ran across a rather nasty bug which ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
The Mozilla Foundation has finally announced its plans for the Mozilla Suite (the combined browser/email client/IRC that evolved from Netscape). There will be no future 1.8 releases and only 1.7.x updates as needed. However on the other hand there is a group of folks that are organizing to continue work ...
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005
With the announcement of a second Mozilla developer joining Google, rumors are now afoot about a possible Google browser. However what some are failing to notice are reasons why Google is benefiting from Mozilla right now. Two examples:
1. The default start page for Mozilla FireFox is at Google with a ...
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
(TurboTax now works fine with FireFox on Linux. This post will remain here for historical purposes.)
I have using Intuit's online version of TurboTax for the past few years to file my taxes. However, this was the first year I used it in Linux. Logically, since it is a web based ...
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2005
Today I came across a VERY strange IE bug - a certain page would not work in IE6 under Windows XP SP2, while it worked fine in Opera, Mozilla and Firefox. The message shown would be as follows:
Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site [url] Operation aborted
After more digging, I ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
I recently ran across a Firefox extension that tweaks network settings. Today, I ran across an article describing how to do the same manually but they also mentioned an additonal option that makes rendering faster:
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return
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3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> ...
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
Last night I have been trying to login into the credit card site for a major US banking institution and to my suprise, nothing worked. I tried out FireFox, Mozilla, Konquerer and Opera. All of them failed but to my suprise one browser worked - LYNX. Yes, the text based ...
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Thursday, November 25th, 2004
For some time I have been looking around for a downloadable CDROM of FireFox and ThunderBird that I can give away to my IE-challenged friends. I finally ran across just what the doctor ordered - a 37 MB downloadable CDROM called "FireMonger".
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
The Register and SANS ISC are reporting a major security hole in Java plugin which makes applets work in browsers. This hole allows JavaScript access to stuff which should normally be restricted. ALL BROWSERS utilizing the Java Plugin are affected on ALL platforms including IE, Opera, Mozilla Suite and Firefox. ...
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Monday, November 22nd, 2004
I have been using Chris Pederick's Web Developer toolbar for Mozilla and Firefox in conjunction with Daniel Savard's Live HTTP Header extension for a while. Recently I challenged a friend of mine who is a big Opera fan to find a similar tool for Opera. He came up with 1 ...
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Thursday, November 11th, 2004
I filed my first bug with FireFox today: when running self.resizeTo() function in Javascript twice the toolbars on top strech a bit too far. You can try it for yourself below:
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