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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Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
Today Mozilla finally released FireFox v1.0.
Update: For Fedora Linux users like myself looking for a semi-official RPM, there is one available from Christopher Aillon (of Redhat).
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
For Mozilla and Firefox there is MozillaZine; for Internet Explorer there is Microsoft Watch and now for Opera there is a new blog - OperaWatch. Started by a friend of mine this "Unofficial Opera Blog" seeks to bring you the news on everything Opera.
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