Date: 08/30/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: browser, web, hosting

Today is Opera's 10th birthday, and they're hosting an online party.

According to c|net:

For one day only, you can get an ad-free version of Opera. Simply e-mail registerme@opera.com to obtain a registration code. This offer is valid from 12 a.m. Tuesday, August 30 to 12 a.m. Wednesday, August 31 2005 (PDT).

browserfriendly

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/opera_browser/40212.html

Date: 08/30/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, css, technology, web

So, to continue from yesterday's post about using not-so-safe fonts in browsers, I had a few suggestions to sIFR to use Univers on my company's web site. I want to know how long did it take you all to learn it. Did it take a week to understand it and fully customize it for your needs or just a few days? My company's site needs to be posted by the end of the week and I'm not sure there's enough time for me to learn a new technology. If sIFR is going to take a while, I'll just use Arial and futz with CSS to make it look a little more like Univers.

What say you all? Thanks.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/965776.html

Date: 08/31/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: browser

The company is temporarily offering the paid version of its browser for free, as part of its anniversary celebration.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Opera+celebrates+10th+birthday/2100-9588_22-5844643.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 08/30/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: browser, linux

The rather good, but annoyingly advert filled unless you pay for it browser opera is 10 today, and they are giving registration codes away for free, which gives it all the functionality of the full paid version
go to http://my.opera.com/community/party/ to claim your code, but limited time only.
for pretty much every format going, Windows, Linux Intel, Linux PowerPC, Linux Sparc,
FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/762809.html

Date: 09/02/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: browser, java

Does anybody know if there's a way to get JavaScript console in Opera to be more useful, or if there's a third-party plugin or something? When debugging JS code, it presents very little useful info other than the fact that you have an error. FireFox has a great JS console, unfortunately the browser itself is rather lacking. Any body have any ideas?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/opera_browser/40853.html

Date: 09/06/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser

I'm trying to set up a silent install of the Mozilla suite (to put on my Windows CD) and am wondering if anyone knows the values to change a couple of things for the install.

1. Does anyone know the pref values that can allow me to change the default theme to Modern?
2. Can I set Mozilla (using a pref value) to use a specific Profile instead of modifying the default profile?
3. Which values do I modify so that Mozilla sets itself as the default browser, and Mail client without a prompt?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/315246.html

Date: 09/06/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, spyware

Ever since about 1.0.5, FireFox has been acting badly on my computer, almost to the point where it is becoming unusable. Whenever a page is in the process of loading - that is, the status bar is reporting anything transferring, the entire application is frozen until the page finishes loading. This means that any tabs loading in the background will freeze the browser, something loading in another window will freeze the browser, etc. I have broadband so pages load quickly, but it's especially painful when a page is waiting to time out, or an image on a page is refusing to load, as the entire time it's waiting for the timeout, my entire browser is unusable.

I wiped the profile recently and started over, in an attempt to fix this, but it did not help. I am using very few extensions, pretty much the same ones I've been using for years without trouble (Session Saver, Deepest Sender, Image Zoom, etc). However, even disabling extensions doesn't fix the problem.

It's gotten so bad I'm having to surf using Opera now instead of FireFox because I'm in danger of destroying my keyboard in frustration when I've got to wait nearly a minute just to have my browser do ANYTHING. Sometimes it's so bad, when a page is taking an especially long time to load, that I end up having to kill firefox from task manager.

Does anyone know what might be causing this? My system IS SPYWARE FREE, so don't even THINK about suggesting that I check for spyware/virii. I have an Athlon64 3500+ with 2 GB ram, so system performance is not an issue.

Anybody ever have this problem before?

(EDIT: I'm suspecting network drivers are wierd at this moment... it may be a windows problem like that, because I see it *sometimes* in other programs it seems.... but ALL the time in FireFox. I would update network drivers, but the newest drivers from Windows Update have are very unstable for my system (cause crashes) so I had to roll back to what was on my motherboard CD...)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/315505.html

Date: 09/07/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser

I just bought this sexy beast of a mouse (the Logitech Mx1000) and am having trouble configuring the buttons to work with firefox. Well, to be precise it's only two buttons - the forward and back button, used obviously for going back or forwards in internet browsers/file browsers. The buttons work fine in IE, however do not in Firefox. I've looked through all the settings I can think of and cannot find the proper one - is it simply not supported?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/315959.html

Date: 09/09/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, web, linux

For those of you (and me), who are anxious to see what Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is like, we have good news. This afternoon, the Mozilla people finally announced the download site of said product. Their brief announcement said, "Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is now available for download. Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is a beta release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available to our early adopter community and our developer and testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox 1.0.x should not download or use Deer Park Alpha 2."

"Note: Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is not the final release of our Web browser, it has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support. If that sounds scary, you'd probably be better off with the latest version of Firefox 1.0."

Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is available for:

1. Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 for Windows (English)
2. Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 for Linux (English)
3. Deer Park Alpha 2 for Mac OS X (English)

I couldn't download web site for version in other languages. Perhaps tomorrow this problem will be fixed.

The download link is: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

Enjoy,

Omar.-

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/316525.html

Date: 09/10/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser

I've been using Firefox for a while as my default browser. Lately, however, the text fields do not properly display what I'm typing. This makes it incredibly difficult to send emails, etc. Can someone tell me what's going on and how to fix it? Thanks much!

~Samantha

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/317351.html

Date: 09/10/05 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: browser

OK, I got my free registration key, and now I wonder how I use this thing - the browser that is, not the registration code? I've currently got Firefox 1.0.6, and was wanting to import the bookmarks from it to Opera, but the only ones being imported are the default one, not the other folders I set up. So what is the secret?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/opera_browser/41069.html

Date: 09/11/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: software, browser, css, html, asp, java

Recently Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols published on eweek.com his first views pertaining to Firefox 1.5 Beta. The title of his article, hints his impressions on the recently announced software; "1.5 Beta Looks Better than Ever".

However there are some initial problems. One of the main problems with Beta 1, is the incompatibility with the vast majority of existing extensions programs. Extension developers are aware of this problem, so new, 1.5-compatible extensions should be in place well before the final version of 1.5 hits the street some time in November or December. Mozilla will be releasing a list of 1.5-compatible extensions within the week.

Improvements Made to Beta 1:
a) Taking a leaf from Opera browser, works much faster at rendering pages that you have already read.
b) The overall performance of the browser is better. Gecko, the layout and rendering machine behind the browser, has been tightened up and made faster.
c) Easy to get rid of private information with the new Tools/Clear Private Data Command.
d) It is very open-standard friendly. The program comes with support for SV (Scalable Vector Graphics), CSS (Cascade Style Sheets) 2 and 3, (DHTML (Dynamic HTML) and JavaScript 1.6.

As a beta, without any technical support, without support for 1.0x extensions, it should not be used as a replacement for Firefox 1.0x or any other browser. Come December and its final release, it will be a different story.

If you are interested in reading the whole article, kindly click the following link: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1857423,00.asp

Regards,

Omar.-

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/318058.html

Date: 09/11/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, html, google

I am officially going out of my mind. This might be a little long, sorry folks. I'm just getting way to frustrated with this. When trial and error & google fail...

I am trying to get a div to position at the bottom of a page. Sounds simple right?

No matter what I try it's not doing what I want it to do. Simple example I have the bottom margin set to 0px. That should work.. shouldn't it?

I've tried bottom: 0 (which gets it to the bottom of the browser window, ok in the simple example.. but the Real Page is longer than that, and makes the image float halfway down the page. (on there it is the copyright image I'm trying to get to the bottom.)

.copyright {
position: absolute;
z-index: 2;
padding: 7px;
bottom: 0px;
}

I've even tried top: 100%, top: auto.. nothing works


Real Page 2 position: absolute is supposed to make that element work independantly from the other elements on the page. If so why is it plopping down below the rest? ( and no matter where in the html I put it it's working around the other divs)

.copyright2 {
position: absolute;
z-index: 2;
padding: 7px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}


This is probably going to be one of those simple "Do this, dummy" kinda answers, but that's okay.

rar.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/975698.html

Date: 09/10/05 (Security)    Keywords: browser

The patch protects against exploitation of a serious flaw by disabling the browser feature that contains the vulnerability.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Mozilla+offers+temporary+fix+for+Firefox+flaw/2100-1009_22-5857511.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 09/12/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser

I installed the Beta 1 and it updated the tabbrowser extension this morning.

Now when I click on my home button it opens a new tab with the homepage.

I have not tried removing the extension yet, but I suspect when I do it will stop doing that.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/318626.html

Date: 09/13/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser

roachfiend's How to update old extensions is cool, but as I've discovered: With 1.5B1 it's also possible to do it the old fashioned way.

Save the xpi to your desktop (or anywhere convenient) and just drag it into




restart the browser and voila! In some cases I had to restart the computer. Yeah, but that's just my machine being it's usually buggy self.

EDIT: If the install.rdf's maxversion reads 1.0+, replacing that with something specific like 1.9 makes the roachfiend tweak work.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/318962.html

Date: 09/14/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, browser, asp, web

So i've been trying to use get_browser() on my website to test something, and I've been looking at the documentation on php.net (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.get-browser.php) and one of the comments mentions taking info from php_browsercap.ini (grabbed from http://www.garykeith.com/browsers/downloads.asp presumably) and putting into browsercap.ini to fix the parsing error messages.

But I'm not sure where I'd put the php_browsercap.ini file in my directory.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/343189.html

Date: 09/14/05 (Security)    Keywords: browser

Researchers claim they have found ways to exploit a serious flaw in Firefox and Mozilla browsers, a sign that attacks could be on the way.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Hackers+work+to+exploit+latest+Firefox+flaw/2100-1009_22-5863451.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 09/15/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, microsoft

After a slight South turn in July, Firefox is bouncing back in August. According to an article written by Judy Westcott in Spymac.com, Firefox is back on the rise; jumping up a quarter point in August 2005, while Netscape and Safari also enjoyed a modest bump in overall usage. Judy Westcott based her article on statistics released today by NetApplications.

In August 2005, Microsoft's Internet Explorer continued its slow, yet steady decline in browser usage market share. IE enjoyed 92.31% market share in October of 2004, but is currently at 86.31%. Firefox attempted to regain its momentum with a modest increase in share from the previous month, and Safari maintained its slow, yet steady gains, improving to 2.20%. Meanwhile, Netscape abruptly stopped its steady market share loss and posted the biggest share gain during August, up from 1.50% to 2.02%.


August Browser/Market Share:

Microsoft Internet Explorer: 86.31%
Firefox: 8.27%
Safari: 2.20%
Netscape: 2.02%
Opera: 0.62%
Mozilla: 0.51%
Other: 0.07%

Regards,

Omar.-

Firefox isn't the only interesting story in August, with Safari and Netscape on the rise, Internet Explorer faced an offensive on three separate fronts.

NetApplications reported in a news release that in August 2005, Microsoft's Internet Explorer continued its slow, yet steady decline in browser usage market share. IE enjoyed 92.31% market share in October of 2004, but is currently at 86.31%. Firefox attempted to regain its momentum with a modest increase in share from the previous month, and Safari maintained its slow, yet steady gains, improving to 2.20%. Meanwhile, Netscape abruptly stopped its steady market share loss and posted the biggest share gain during August, up from 1.50% to 2.02%.

Firefox isn't the only interesting story in August, with Safari and Netscape on the rise, Internet Explorer faced an offensive on three separate fronts, noted Phil Vizzaccaro, CEO of NetApplications. While Firefox rebounded after its small decline in July and Safari enjoyed a modest tenth of a percent gain, August was Netscape's month to shine earning just over a half percent. The Mozilla Foundation also recently announced the availability of its new Firefox 1.5 Beta.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/319703.html

Date: 09/15/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, web, microsoft

Mr. Scott used to work at Microsoft Corporation and was responsible for designing much of what is now Internet Explorer. Being at Microsoft from 1994 to 2003, he held several job titles such as: usability engineer, program manager, lead program manager, and training manager. He also worked as a lead program manager on Microsoft Windows and MSN. After using Firefox, Scott decided to abandon IE's camp and now only surfs the web with the blazing fox. In a fascinating blog, he expresses the reasons behind his decision to switch browsers. Based on his experience and expertise, he cleverly points out the pros and cons of Firefox compared to IE. I agree with some of them, others I totally disagree This is his exciting story written in Berkun Blog under the title, "Why I Switched to Firefox".

To read this story, kindly click the following link: http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/?p=115. I hope you will enjoy Scott's story as much as I did; as well as the thoughtful comments made by several readers of the blog.

Enjoy,

Omar.-

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/319775.html