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 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
Recently I ran across a rather strange error with different browser. Popup windows could be maximized in Opera and Mozilla, but not in IE. The code I was using was as follows (click here to try):
window.open('', '', 'width=200,height=200');
After some digging, I ran across the following snippet in MSDN:
When the sFeatures ...
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Monday, January 3rd, 2005
A recent post at TechDigits about tracking UPS packages via RSS and web services got me thinking if the same is possible via Javascript and the XmlHttpRequest object (in IE and Mozilla). Since Google's Gmail and Google Suggest started using that object, it has become more popular. So after some ...
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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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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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