Moz has begun Add-On Collections (via Ajaxian):
Today, we’re excited to introduce a new feature to our website that will expose the niche add-ons that can be hard to find, and gives users a more active role in helping outstanding add-ons bubble to the top. One thing we’ve learned as add-ons have grown in popularity over [...]
Tags: Browsers·Collections·Extensions·Firefox·URL Trails·Web
A Net Applications study (via ReadWriteWeb) says IE’s market share has dropped to 67%:
This is an interesting trend. The actual quantity of market share will vary with methodology, but a 7% drop in a year is something to take note of. Moreover, as Readwrite points out, there are two things that will probably make the [...]
Firefox 3.0 ticker tape parade
Today is Firefox 3.0 landing day. Maybe tomorrow as the servers have been down for many hours now. Funny how Twitter is up, but Mozilla is down…it feels like today is the Juneth of 18. Anyway, this is great news as you could wile away a few lazy hours tweeting and [...]
Jeff Attwood points out that on w3schools, a huge majority of developers are still using IE.
About 60% IE and 25% Firefox. Amazingly 2.3% are still using Mozilla (why?). Unfortunate that 60% of developers aren’t using IE … but the reality is many don’t have much choice…they’ll be working in corporate-standard windows environments, where IE already [...]
Setting up a new Windows PC today and not loving the browser warnings.
The messages, as I recall them: “You are about to submit the form. It’s dangerous.”, “You’re going to leave the page. It’s dangerous.”, “This page is encrypted. It’s dangerous.”, “This page is not encrypted. It’s dangerous.”, “This is H20. It’s dangerous.”
So my question [...]
You’ve probably noticed the buzz around Flock, a browser built on Firefox. Information’s limited, but it seems to pick up on the “social” buzzword – tagging, annotations, RSS etc. Thing is, all of these things are possible in Firefox too via extensions. But extensions haven’t really taken off, and the reason is, quite frankly, poor [...]
Tags: Browsers·Extension·Firefox·Flock·Greasemonkey·Plugin·Software·Software Architecture·Web·Web 2.0
Tweaking a Greasemonkey script is easy. It’s just a single file, so you download the file locally, edit it, and install it the same way you’d install any other script.
I did this because I needed a quick fix for the super-helpful XMLHttpRequest Debugging script. Sometimes the console has a little trouble with positioning – using [...]
