Saturday October 21, 2006
I’ve been using the Firefox 2 release candidates as my default browser for a while now. On the whole I've been pretty impressed. Performance has been improved, launch time is much faster and even with twenty + tabs open things remain stable. There are also a few nice new features.
Most of the essential extensions have now been upgraded to work with Firefox 2, although you may find there are a few straglers. If your favorite extension has not yet been updated to work with Firefox 2 check out Nightly Tester Tools. Once installed this will add a “Make all compatible” button to the extensions window.
Note: in Firefox 2 extensions have been renamed “Add-ons” and are accessed via Tools > Add-ons.
Thursday August 24, 2006
The final list of CSS changes in IE7 that will make it to the release. All are very welcome updates.
There are reports of what may be a few new CSS problems in IE7. In the current beta there may be some regression that causes problems with the overflow:auto method of float clearing.
Tuesday August 15, 2006
The Swift browser could come in very useful if you’re stuck on a Windows box all day. Although no substitute for testing on a Mac it’s nice to have a WebKit rendering engine that’s easily available to the PC.
Be warned that this is an alpha release and lots of things aren’t working yet. You will probably need to apply this patch before you install.
Sunday April 2, 2006
Another Firefox Extension related post, ListZilla
output’s a list of installed extensions to a text or HTML file. The list includes a brief descriptoin and link to the extensions homepage.
My current list: