Posts Tagged ‘Mozilla Firefox’

Reclaim screen real estate with Firefox tweaks

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Fixing Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser that is popular for its security, third-party add-ons called extensions, and it’s speed relative to the current dominant browser Internet Explorer. Today we embark on a three-part series about making Mozilla Firefox usable.
Our biggest beef with web browsers today is the amount of space used by the browser. [...]

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Microsoft releases another emergency update

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Last October, we shot out a heads-up regarding an out-of-band update from Microsoft. An out-of-band update is one that is released outside of the patch Tuesday update schedule, the well-known pattern Microsoft has established for releasing updates to its products on the second Tuesday of each month.
Today, Microsoft has released another out-of-band update. [...]

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Opera web browser version 10 alpha

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Newer, faster browser rendering engines are all the rage. Google released Chrome based on Webkit and V8; Firefox uses Gecko and is going to be using TraceMonkey for JavaScript. Apple made some noise a few weeks ago by releasing a beta of its Webkit-based Safari 4, now using Apple’s new Nitro engine for [...]

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Accessible websites, more RFP ideas

The example RFP for website construction posted last week mentioned a little about web standards and user agents, but after further reflection it seems we need to examine further the importance of an accessible and usable website and add a few more requirements to the proposal.
An accessible website is one that can be viewed on [...]

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