In response to my pleas as to what the heck the meaning of the Gates-Seinfeld Shoe Store Commercial, comes a an explanation from AmericaWantsToKnow.com: Explaining the Seinfeld-Gates Microsoft ad Thanks for the tip ExtremeInk
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Meet G-Fox the newest mascot created by Mozilla Online, a subsidiary of Mozilla China. News Source: Mozilla Links
Editor’s Note: Starting this week, the weekly Release Recap posts will be posted on Saturdays. Just Released Firefox 3.1a2 – Friday, September 5th Schedule this Week None Future Release Note: MU Releases are special releases which allow users to upgrade to the next major version (e.g. Fx 2 to Fx 3) automatically without having to manually download and install the newer version. Firefox 2.0.0.17 – September 16th Firefox 2.0.0.17 > 3.0.2 MU – TBD Firefox 3.0.2 – September 16th Firefox 3.1b1 – Early October 2008 Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 – TBD Shredder (Thunderbird) 3.0b1 – September/October 2008
Firefox 3.1 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering engine. Firefox 3.1a2 New Features: Support for the HTML 5 <video> element Initial support for web worker threads You can now drag and drop tabs between browser windows New selector to create areas of Aero-style “glass” in XUL Support for CSS 2.1 properties: ::before and ::after, and white-space:pre-line Support for CSS 3 properties: -moz-border-image, word-wrap: break-word, text-shadow, box-shadow and column-rule Performance improvements and new preference values for color management profile support Suggested Readings: Firefox 3.1a2 Release Notes The “Firefox 3.1 For Developers” article Mozilla Links: Firefox 3 Alpha 2 reviewed Download…
Could come someone kindly explain what the heck this Microsoft Commercial featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld is suppose to be about? It makes about as much sense as an episode of Seinfeld! I am guessing it could be something to do with Windows 7, but really don’t have a clue… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz6amk3P-hY] ETA: Just saw a shorter version on The Discovery Channel the other night. Found via Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog
Charlie Gavin (Blank Pixels) has compiled a simple four-item list as to What Makes Firefox So Great. With all this talk about Google’s impending “revolutionary” web browser and it’s potential threat to Mozilla’s best selling (er… open-source) web browser, I think it’s time to go back and take a look at what made Firefox so great in the first place. A direct descendent of the Mozilla Application Suite (and the only current surviving member) Firefox has been favored by geeks — and most everybody else — since it’s initial release in 2004. Here are Charlie’s reasons: It’s Reputation It’s Competition…
Wow, I have to say I am impressed at the number of comments I have received on the Google Chrome post. Further it has been a while since this blog has gotten this much traffic. Anyway, I’ve been thinking about what could cause Chrome not to recognize I have Firefox and import my settings. My first thoughts were may be because I am running a Nightly Build version of Firefox 3 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3pre) Gecko/2008090306 Firefox 3/3.0.3pre ID:2008090306). However it may have to do with the version of Firefox, based on these comments from PatrickD,…
In theory, the Quick Find bar should not activate when pressing the apostrophe (‘) and slash (/) keys when you are in a text-box. However, many users have reported that the Quick Find bar does activate when pressing the apostrophe (‘) and slash (/) keys even if they are in a text-box. There is an extension called SearchHotKeys that will disable the apostrophe (‘) and slash (/) keys from invoking the quick find bar. You can still invoke via CTRL+F. This should work for Firefox 2 and 3*. Follow these steps below: Go to http://www.nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/index-en.html#searchkeys Right-click and select ‘Save Link…
The big news today is the release of Google’s new web browser, Chrome. The big ‘selling point’ for Chrome is it is faster because of the way it handles the tabs. Unlike Firefox, IE, Netscape, Opera, etc. where the browser is one huge process, Chrome allocates a process to each tab. So if there is a problem says JavaScript is hung-up in one of the tabs, only that tab will go down, not the entire browser. However, something doesn’t seem to make sense here. The screen shot below of my task manager was taken with Chrome open with 6 tabs,…
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