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Posts Tagged ‘mozilla’

Multiple (Firefox) personalities

Posted in Play on 18 August 2009 | Comments?
Tags: firefox, mozilla, opensource, tips, web

Er… profiles, I mean.
I use Firefox add-ons for the occasional web development tasks. (Too bad, not all my favorite extensions are available in the workplace’s “blessed” add-ons repository, but I can live with what’s in there.) Sometimes, though, having too many add-ons slows down the browsing experience, specially for times when you just [...]

‘Klaatu barada nikto!’

Posted in Play on 14 December 2008 | Comments?
Tags: firefox, mozilla, opensource, web

About the same time as I upgraded Coredump to Wordpress 2.7, I also got the Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 update.

I haven’t gotten around to trying out all the new features, but they look promising. Well, some may seem old news if you’re already using Google Chrome, but they’re good news nevertheless.
First off, the Beta [...]

Firefox 3 to support offline apps

Posted in Play on 13 February 2007 | Comments?
Tags: firefox, google, mozilla, news, office, offline

Firefox’s next major iteration will feature support for offline applications.
This was revealed by Mozilla developer Robert O’Callahan.
Callahan mentioned that the offline app support builds on a few “quasi-standard” APIs — “WHATWG client-side storage, jar: URLs, and WHATWG online/offline sensing” — and will incorporate a new API for “storing application pages in the ‘offline [...]