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Firefox bug #347226
31 March 08 06:48 PM | urig | 2 comment(s)

Wired are giving The Mozilla Foundation a photo tour tribute in celebration of its 10 year anniversary. Flipping through the photos I bumped into the following quote referring to Alex Polvi of Mozilla: Polvi is famous for resolving Firefox bug #347226 by creating a giant crop circle using the Firefox logo in an Oregon oat field. Following the supplied links I was amazed to find that Firefox bug #347226 states that "there is no firefox crop circle" and that Mr. Polvi has indeed resolved...

תגים:firefox

Firebug can make Gmail slow
07 November 07 10:35 AM | urig | with no comments

If you have FireBug installed in FireFox and you've been experiencing slow response from Gmail lately, you might find the following interesting. I just fired up my FireFox first thing this morning, went to Gmail and got the following message in alarming red: I clicked the " Fix It " link and received detailed instructions on configuring FireBug not to "interfere" with Gmail, which I followed (just disabled FireBug for mail.google.com) Now that's good service!

תגים:firefox, browsers, google

Outbrain.com - Personalized blog recommendations
09 April 07 07:50 PM | urig | 1 comment(s)

A couple of weeks ago I've had the pleasure of attending outbrain.com 's "friends night out". A small get together of bloggers, outbrain.com crew and sympathizers. Not only was it great fun, it was also educational as Dr. Nahum Sharfman (of shopping.com fame ) gave a short talk about the recent web 2.0 startup boom. Dr. Sharfman's bottom line seems to be that nobody knows what's going to catch on and what isn't, with the one exception that a viable business model should be the prerequisite for anyone...

תגים:firefox, rss, blogs, cool, outbrain

SeaMonkey - The poor man's FireFox
11 March 07 04:01 PM | urig | 1 comment(s)

This is a bit on the "old news" side of things, but have you heard of SeaMonkey ? SeaMonkey is FireFox's smaller, uglier but faster brother. SeaMonkey is a web browser from the Mozilla Foundation that's based on Gecko - the same "layout engine" as FireFox. That means it renders HTML to your screen the exact same way as FireFox does. The difference? While FireFox uses the fancy, but "expensive", XUL for its user interface, SeaMonkey uses the native UI elements of whatever OS it runs on . SeaMonkey...

תגים:firefox, browsers, tools, open source

FireFox and Cache-Control: max-age=0
01 November 06 05:49 PM | urig | 1 comment(s)

I usually post about problems that I've solved. But every once in a while, for all my digging around and googling, I come up on something that I can't solve quickly and thuroughly enough - so I post about it here in the hope someone can help. To make a long story short - I've found out that FireFox 1.5 appends a "Cache-Control: max-age=0" HTTP header to requests for ASPX files. This header tells the web server and any proxy servers on the way not to respond with cached version of the requested page...

תגים:firefox, caching, netcache, browsers, http headers