102 posts tagged “firefox”
Mozilla's Firefox browser.
2007
The JavaScript alert(), confirm() and prompt() functions in Firefox, Opera and MSIE (but not Safari) will truncate the message after any null character. So an unsuspecting programmer who inserts user-provided text into one of these dialog boxes opens up an opportunity for the user to rewrite the bottom of the dialog box.
Firefox3/Firefox Requirements (via) OpenID and CardSpace are both listed as mandatory features.
2006
Introducing Operator. New microformat detecting Firefox extension, developed at IBM and released by Mozilla Labs. Examples are from Yahoo! Local, Upcoming and Flickr.
Firebug Lite. Add Firebug to your site for non-Firefox browsers.
Firebug 1.0 Beta. Unbelievably brilliant software. I use this every day.
Graphing requests with Tamper Data
I spent the weekend in Boston, speaking at GBC/ACM’s Deep Ajax seminar with Alex Russell and Adrian Holovaty. I’ll be posting some notes on this later, but I wanted to share a really neat Firefox extension that Alex showed me: Tamper Data.
[... 318 words]Microsummaries in Firefox 2. Neat new feature: short summaries of pages extracted using XSLT.
2005
New features for extension developers in Firefox 1.5. We’re going to see some amazing innovation in extensions in the next few months.
Canvas demos
Jesse Andrews (of Book Burro and userscripts.org fame) has built some awesome canvas demos for users of Safari or Firefox 1.5. He has a bar chart and some animated rectangles, but the real gem is the live chart which polls a server using XMLHttpRequest and updates a line graph with live data. He also has some fun mathematical experiments: a cellular automata generator and a neat exploration of Lindenmayer systems (both static and interactive). Read more on his blog.
Firefox 1.5-compatible Greasemonkey beta now available. I’d been waiting for this.
Firefox 1.5 developer highlights
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is out, and is the most exciting browser release in a very long time. It comes with the Gecko 1.8 rendering engine, which includes a ton of interesting new features. New in this version (unless you’ve been tinkering with the Deer Park series):
[... 719 words]Dissecting the Google Firefox Toolbar
Google have finally released a Firefox version of the Google Toolbar, with some nice praise for XUL in to the bargain. Of course, the most interesting part of the toolbar from a geeky point of view is the bit that queries Google’s servers for PageRank. Sure enough, if you download the google-toolbar.xpi file, unzip it, then unzip the google-toolbar.jar file within there’s a file called pagerank.js with all of the juicy details.
Google Firefox Extensions. Google Toolbar, Google Send to Phone and Google Suggest.
Blake Ross: The new Firefox tag line (via) Blake claims this is a true story. If it is, wow!
View formatted source extension for Firefox (via) I haven’t tried this yet, but apparently it’s a big improvement.
Greasemonkey: Yet Another Reason to Use Firefox. Great writeup of Greasemonkey on the PC World Techlog(!)
Wired News: Firefox Users Monkey With the Web. Greasemonkey on Wired—and I get quoted!
getSelection() Workaround for Safari 1.3 and Firefox 1.0.3. One of those things that’s just handy to know.
Firefox Counter. How the Firefox counter works.
A Firefox observation
There are (to my knowledge) around 80 people on my undergraduate computer science course. Of those 80, I know of at least fourfive who’s final year project involves writing a Firefox extension of some sort. That’s 1 in 2016.
Aardvark Firefox Extension. Neat extension for exploring (and altering) the layout of a page.
Greasemonkey FUD
Wow, that didn’t take long. Via the Greasemonkey mailing list, Forrester Research have released a report entitled Greasemonkey Primes Firefox For Embarrassment. I have no intention of paying the $49 asking price for the full 3 page report (!), but here’s the executive summary:
[... 283 words]Nasty Firefox vulnerability and Double Standards. In which I am accused of hypocrisy (response in the comments).
Google Video Search: firefox. Recent mentions of Firefox on American TV.
The Daily Express on Firefox. Ish. Amusing example of inaccuracy in mainstream media.
2004
First Look at Firefox-Based Netscape. Interestingly enough, there’s a “display like IE” option.
Mozilla Firefox article on Wikipedia. Today’s featured article.
Eclipse download hell
One of the many thing the Mozilla/Firefox team have got right is the fantastic ease with which the application can be downloaded. Visitors to www.mozilla.org are greeted with a nice big “Free Download” link, aimed straight at the version for their (automatically detected) operating system hosted on a mirror geographically close to their IP address. It’s hard to think of any way they could improve on this.
[... 527 words]Mozilla Firefox Start Page. Firefox 1.0 is out. The default home page is hosted by Google.
Wikipedia Firefox extension (via) Adds Wiki-markup shortcuts to the context menu.