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Posts Tagged Firefox

Mac Optimized Builds of Firefox

A couple of weeks ago I came across a reference to Mac Optimized Builds of Firefox. There’s a long tradition of community-based builds of Firefox for the Mac dating back to the PowerPC days.
A lot’s changed since those dark days, however. To say that we spend a lot of energy doing performance analysis is a [...]


extensions.checkCompatibility.version

I was surprised this morning when I did my update to today’s newest nightly of Namoroka and all of my extensions were disabled. I was extra-surprised when I tried enabling my extensions with Nightly Tester Tools and it didn’t work. Turns out that Mossop’s been busy implementing a patch for bug 521905.
Now for version 3.6b3 [...]


Firebug 1.5 and Firefox 3.6

… or, which version of Firebug should I use with Firefox 3.6, aka Namoroka?
We’re in a bit of a funny place with Firebug and Firefox 3.6. The Firebug 1.5 line is currently running better on Firefox 3.7 (trunk, mozilla-central) than it is on the 1.9.2 branch (Firefox 3.6, aka Namoroka). Fallout from a couple of [...]


Cannot connect after upgrading Firefox, a story

I’m going to take a break from talking about Firebug (which is awesome) this afternoon to relay an interesting experience I had. Something a little out-of-the-ordinary that was kind of fun and can hopefully be useful to others should they find themselves in the same situation.
It’s Friday afternoon and I’m sitting at my desk, a [...]


Firefox 3 Download Day!

Our crack team of experts is still working on getting the web infrastructure fixed up. In the meantime, I’m going to be posting stuff to my flickr stream all day in the Firefox 3 Release Week set.


Add-ons I can’t roll without

Deb posted an excellent run-down the other day about 20 top-notch add-ons ready for Firefox 3. I thought I’d do a quick write-up about a few of the add-ons I find invaluable too (and more-or-less ready for Firefox 3.0). Note that there may be some overlap here and that some of these add-ons are considered [...]


AwesomeBar Awesome Feature #832

A friend of mine mentioned how awesome the new Firefox 3 beta is last night while we were playing a little Halo. “I know,” I told him, maybe a little cockily.
Undeterred, he plowed on, “the best new feature is, you know how you can collapse the toolbar and location bar on the Mac? With that [...]


The Fellowship of the Marble of Doom

I saw this mentioned on The Unofficial Apple Web Log and had to post it here: The Fellowship of the Marble of Doom

while not exactly scientific, it does paint a somewhat disturbing picture while showing off a fairly hypnotic graphic.
Well, I just wanted to reiterate that we’re not just sitting on our laurels over here. [...]


OSCON2007, photos and experiences

I’m still recovering from time-change differences and inbox overload after a week in Portland attending OSCON2007. It was a good time, great seeing friends and colleagues outside of the usual “all-hands” events and I managed to sneak into a few interesting talks as well.
I brought along my camera; click the Free Beer for pics!


(left) Justified and Ancient

(with apologies to the KLF…)
I saw this note on Schrep’s blog this afternoon and remembered, that last week was actually kind of a milestone for me. With dbaron’s help. I made my way onto a 4-digit bug – the venerable #3247 – counters in css-generated content.
David Baron wrote the original tests (which you can see [...]


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