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Hack and tweak your Firefox

by Darice de Cuba
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Hack and tweak your Firefox

Despite the wide variety of web browsers available I’m still a daily Firefox user. I could never get used to Safari or Camino. I do use Chrome for testing websites or when I need multiple logins on one website. As for Opera I can’t really care for it at all. While Firefox is the slowest of all the browsers I like it due to the add-ons and the possibility to hack a lot of settings to suit my needs. Just by typing about:config you’ll get access to customize Firefox’s core settings. Of course this doesn’t come without a proper warning from Firefox. That warning says it all, hack and tweak Read more »

Microsoft forced to offer Europeans choice of browsers

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Microsoft forced to offer Europeans choice of browsers

From today, millions of Europeans who use Windows will be given the choice of whether to switch their default browser from Internet Explorer to one of eleven others. It follows a lengthy legal battle in Europe which has seen Microsoft accused of anti-competitive behaviour because it bundles Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system. This means that many computer users don’t realise there are alternative browsers available — amusing given that many users don’t really appreciate what a ‘browser’ really is. Us geeks have been switching in droves to alternatives such as Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome, but most ‘standard’ users have stuck with IE out of ignorance. It’s interesting Read more »

Browser wars: Firefox 3.5 beats Internet Explorer 7

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Browser wars: Firefox 3.5 beats Internet Explorer 7

We know that Firefox’s market share has been steadily increasing, but an interesting statistic from a leading web stats company (StatCounter) shows that Firefox 3.5 has overtaken Internet Explorer 7 for the first time. Results vary from continent to continent, with Firefox being a lot more popular in Europe than North America, for example. The complete Internet Explorer collection still significantly outranks Firefox. IE6 alone is still in use by nearly one in six users. I decided to take a look at a couple of our websites. Firstly, Forever Geek, which you’d expect to be frequented by a more tech-savvy crowd, confirmed my belief. Last month, Firefox overall had 50% Read more »

Pong: Retro video game meets latest browser technology

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Pong: Retro video game meets latest browser technology

There have been plenty of implementations of Pong over the years, given how long this retro video game has been around and how popular this simple content still is. Playing Flash versions in a browser window is old hat, so how about using the browser windows themselves as the ball and bats? That’s what the developers at stewdio.org have done. Browser Pong has been written to take advantage of the latest HTML 5 specification, which is why it doesn’t work in standards-mashers like Internet Explorer. Graphically advanced it’s not, though if you fancy cheating it’s pretty easy — just expand one of the “bat” browser windows fully vertically. Easy. Browser Read more »

Google releases Chrome browser

by Mel
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I am posting this blog using Google’s latest app – Google Chrome. The search engine giant has finally released the long rumored web browser that it has been developing over the last two years. Google Chrome, according to its engineers, the open source browser is not a content viewer as much as a window manager for web pages and applications. I dunno exactly what that means but the result is a zippier web experience. Pages that I frequent with both IE and Firefox load much faster in Chrome. This has got me really excited as another alternative in the browser space is very welcome. I also love the very minimalist Read more »