tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36936347480321710932009-02-20T18:53:02.983-08:00My Mozilla-related blogAlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850260357908532001noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693634748032171093.post-29812106643296676852009-01-03T17:55:00.001-08:002009-01-03T17:56:21.946-08:00You know you've spent too long with your web browser when you see <a href="http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2009/01/total-basketcas.html">a picture of a cat</a> and think of Firefox.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3693634748032171093-2981210664329667685?l=alanjstr.blogspot.com'/></div>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850260357908532001noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693634748032171093.post-17021681287295835842008-12-04T15:46:00.000-08:002008-12-04T15:50:23.186-08:00I've been told that Tim Berners-Lee wishes that he could go back and make URLS be com.yahoo.www instead of www.yahoo.com. Is it too late for that? How about a Firefox addon to do that? It would help detect phishing faster, right?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3693634748032171093-1702168128729583584?l=alanjstr.blogspot.com'/></div>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850260357908532001noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3693634748032171093.post-52718038978312471222007-12-20T12:04:00.001-08:002007-12-20T12:31:31.873-08:00Since Mozilla Firefox 3 is still in beta, I wanted to test it out without it potentially destroying my existing profile. Also, if there is anything that would block my everyday usage, I wanted my old profile to still work. So today I downloaded <a href="http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test">Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3 Beta 2</a>. The first thing that jumped out at me was that since I was copied over my profile and I'm using <a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/personas-for-firefox/">Personas</a>, things mostly look the same. <a href="http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2007/12/20/Firefox-3b2-address-bar">The URL bar is a little bothersome when I'm typing in a URL</a>, but I think that will just take some getting used-to. The tab-bar has a thick gray line under it so I will probably have to play with my userChrome.css again. <br /><br />I have 9 extensions which are not yet compatible, though I know that several of them were tagged as ok for previous alpha and beta versions of Firefox 3. Unfortunately one of the disabled addons on Nightly Tester Tools, so I can't mark the others as compatible. <br /><br />I can live without the other extensions for a short time, but before I can switch to Firefox 3, I need <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419">IE tab</a> to be updated. I have to use IE for several intranet sites at work and this provides them seamlessly (except for the one website that seems to detect Firefox before IE Tag kicks in). <br /><br />I haven't really been bothered by <a href="http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/12/18/bye-bye-allocations/">Firefox's memory usage</a>, but I'm happy to see the recent progress.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3693634748032171093-5271803897831247122?l=alanjstr.blogspot.com'/></div>Alanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850260357908532001noreply@blogger.com0