Archive for Firefox
October 27, 2006 at 11:23 am · Filed under Technology, Firefox 2, Browsers, Firefox, Miscellaneous
I really hate to have to knock on Firefox from a negative direction, but yesterday the newest version of the open source giant gave me one of the worst days of web surfing that I’ve had in a very long time.
I downloaded Firefox 2.0 on Tuesday but didn’t spend much time online that day because I had other things to do. On Wednesday I was online for a bit, probably an hour or so, and I noticed some slight glitches in the performance of the browser but brushed it off because at the time it wasn’t that bad and I figured my laptop was just having issues. Yesterday proved to be a much bigger headache as I spent a better part of the day working on all of my sites and blogs.
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October 22, 2006 at 4:11 pm · Filed under Technology, Microsoft, Plugins, Browsers, Firefox, Miscellaneous
For those of you who will be using IE7, Microsoft has published the browser extension page and the list of plugins is now available for download.
Microsoft IE 7 Extensions Page
There appears to be a good amount of plugins there, but the almost none of my plugins are there. I might have missed it, but I didn’t see Adsense Notifier, SEOpen, PR in Status bar, FireFTP and a few others. To be fair, I did see stumbleupon, Digg, and some of the other big name plugins so that might help a bit.
If you’re an IE fan this list should be pretty tasty.
Enjoy!
October 22, 2006 at 4:03 pm · Filed under Computers, Technology, Microsoft, Firefox 2, RSS, Firefox, Browsers, Plugins, Miscellaneous
I love Laptop Magazine. I read their feeds and find tons of good info over there. With that being said, I’m scratching my head trying to figure out what they were thinking when they posted this.
Here are the parts that get me.
For example, IE7 detects the presence of RSS links and adds them to a Favorites Center that puts Favorites, Feeds, and History in a single, navigable window. Within the RSS reader itself, you can search and reorganize items by date, author, and title.
Ummm… Firefox invented this long ago did it not?
Tabbed browsing in IE7 gets supercharged with a Quick Tabs preview page of visual thumbnails that lets you view each open tab on a single screen. The group-tab feature turns the current cluster of open pages into a Favorite that reopens all of these tabs with a single click.
Poor Microsoft. This feature sounds excellent, but we all know we’re getting it with Firefox 2.
Microsoft has also taken a cue from the open-source browsers and has enhanced its add-ons. A launch catalog displays Microsoft and third-party toolbars, form fillers, and other extensions that you can plug in and manage easily. Here’s hoping that developers get as creative with IE7 plug-ins as they have with Firefox’.
Too little, too late.
In the grand battle between Firefox and IE, we think that IE has a bit of an edge in this release, although the Firefox 2 betas we have seen will catch it up a bit. Many of the things we like about Firefox have been implemented in IE7 and have been polished to be more streamlined and useful. For those of us who spend a lot of time researching and working on the Web, IE7 represents the best and most aggressive IE upgrade we’ve seen in a while.
How so? I still have seen NOT A SINGLE strain of evidence that suggests IE7 has an edge of Firefox. None.
Call me a FF fanboy if you wish, but IE7 is going to have to create something completely different, unique and original for me to throw out my plugins, browser skins, solid security (I have suffered zero attacks since I started using Firefox), fast surfing, RSS readers and all the rest of the jazz.
Sorry to say this LAPTOP Magazine, but I think you’re trying to be a little too friendly here. While IE7 may be a step up from EI6, we have to remember that IE6 set the standard bar just a few inches above the ground. With standards that low, it isn’t difficult to exceed them.
October 21, 2006 at 11:23 am · Filed under Firefox 2, Technology, Browsers, Firefox, Geek Tech, Miscellaneous
As expected Microsoft’s latest browser release, IE 7, bombed before it even came out of the gate. The tarnished browser is up against a beast of a machine in the open source browser we’ve all come to know and love… Firefox.
IE 7 tried, at least we think they’ve tried, to take on Firefox as a “me too” browser with all the goodies that come along with it, but failed miserably. To make matters worse, now Mozilla is releasing Firefox 2 just days after IE 7 let its fans down.
Oh yeah baby! Firefox 2!
Firefox 2 is set for full release this Tuesday and I imagine we’ll see a gigantic flux of traffic heading to the Mozilla website for some download action. The new version doesn’t change a whole lot for the user, but there appears to be significant changes in security. While IE 7 closes the gap on browser functions, security is something they just can’t seem to get right.
First Firefox took the web by storm with its user friendliness. Now we’re seeing the open source giant take Microsoft on in security as well.
This gets better by the day!
October 7, 2006 at 1:10 am · Filed under Firefox 2, Adsense, Firefox, Money, Google, Blogging, Miscellaneous
As you can see I try to work in a lot of images when posting. It’s a habit I’ve wanted to obtain so this blog is a good place to practice. eRodTech.com is fairly new, but it’s already given me the chance to learn a few things about targeting the Adsense ads that display on the site.
Earlier today I caught the following ad on this post.
The image was tagged “firefox2″ and sat directly above the ad. If this isn’t targeted, I don’t know what is.
Now to get that sidebar ad to align with the content of the site…
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October 7, 2006 at 12:44 am · Filed under Browsers, Firefox 2, Firefox, Geek Tech, Google, Miscellaneous
This week has been a gold mine for developers. First, Google dropped Code Search into the world wide web for unlimited use, and now Firefox opens the goodie gate to reveal Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2 (RC 2).
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October 6, 2006 at 11:50 pm · Filed under Gmail, RSS, Browsers, Firefox, Blogging, Miscellaneous
This will probably come to many of you as old news. If it does, I think you’ll agree it still deserves attention. Here’s my take on infoRSS for Firefox.
infoRSS for Firefox
I started using this extension two weeks ago and I’ve had it hard at work for a good 13 hours a day since. The infoRSS extension creates a scroller that sits in your status bar and gives you the feeds of your choosing as they update. You can switch through feeds with the click of a button that sits next to the scroller. You can also add the feed of any page that has one with the single tap of the mouse. The status bar includes a small menu of icons that help you navigate through the options with ease.
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October 6, 2006 at 7:38 am · Filed under Digg, Plugins, Browsers, Firefox, Miscellaneous
The online community is putting together a tubular list of Firefox extensions over at Wikipedia.
While eyeing the list I decided to go ahead and install the Digg Toolbar. Nice!
