Archive for the ‘firefox’ Category

Why I’ll Never Use IE8

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Recently Microsoft began urging IE6 and IE7 users to update to IE8, even to the point of posting a notification through Automatic Updates as High Priority.  While Windows 7 may be seen as Microsoft's saving grace, IE8 is still the ripe spot on the fruit that no one really wants ...

Firefox 2.0 joins forces with MonkeyChow

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Update 2007-02-18: Note that Google Toolbar is known to interfere with the functionality of the firefox feed handlers settings. Update 2007-02-25: Firefox is at version 2.0.0.2 to fix a major security hole and to apply stability fixes. What you are seeing in the following screenshot is integration of MonkeyChow into Firefox ...

Fixing Firefox memory leaks

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

If you've been plagued by Firefox memory leaks like I have, you need to read this article which covers the browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers preference value. This concerns how much cache is reserved for browsing. The default setting expects you to page back up to 8 pages. Because of tabbed ...

Firefox 1.5 anatomy

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Firefox 1.5 came out a few days ago. All the extensions I use had compatible versions ready to go: Adblock, ForecastFox, Google Toolbar, del.icio.us, Roboform, Download Statusbar, Yahoo Mail notifier, and Google Mail notifier. My beef with having a lot of extensions is that your browser often becomes ...