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How To Make Firefox Load Pages Faster
How To Make Firefox Load Pages Faster
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 04/25/2008
Turning on pipelining makes sense, but the nglayout.initialpaint.delay should probably be left as-is. The reason it's there is so that if additional code comes in that would change the layout -- like table cell contents, or a stylesheet -- it doesn't hav … (see comment)
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Gmail April Fools Not Very Funny: Started A Wikipedia War
Gmail April Fools Not Very Funny: Started A Wikipedia War
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 04/01/2008
Yeah, changing the date headers is dead simple if you have a custom SMTP client. I see past or future dates on spam all the time, and some spam filters actually look for dates that are significantly in the past. Every once in a while I see something tha … (see comment)
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John’s Blog » Apple Software Update and Safari
John’s Blog » Apple Software Update and Safari
Comment in News (39 diggs, 1 reply) - on 03/22/2008
There's a difference between an *installer* offering additional apps by default and an *updater* doing the same. The simplest path of action with an updater should leave you with a new version of the software you already had, not with additional software … (see comment)
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IE8 News on Standards and Acid2 test Announcement
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 12/20/2007
This article was particularly helpful in clarifying that "IE8 standards mode" is in fact a separate rendering mode in addition to quirks mode and standards mode, triggered by a flag placed in the web page to indicate that the developer knows what he's doi … (see comment)
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Opera 9.5 beta released
Comment in News (3 diggs, 0 replies) - on 10/26/2007
As petty as it sounds, it is a real concern. I remember a few years ago, when Opera was ad-supported, there was a group of sites that started banning Opera because they didn't want Opera to bring up ads that might compete with the ads on their sites. An … (see comment)
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Opera 9.5 beta released
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 10/26/2007
Sadly, not yet. It's had on-demand spellcheck for quite some time, though. I think it uses a native spell checker on Mac OS and ASpell on Windows and Linux. Aspell is often pre-installed on Linux, but you have to install it on Windows before you can us … (see comment)
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Developers Admit WordPress 2.3 Spies On Users
Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/25/2007
I read the email thread, and according to that, Akismet simply sends all SERVER variables that aren't on an ignore list. (My guess as to why: some of the request headers can be useful spam signs. The Bad Behavior anti-spam plugin focuses on that, though … (see comment)
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Developers Admit WordPress 2.3 Spies On Users
Comment in News (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/25/2007
It's still going to have to do one of two things: either send a list of installed plugins, requesting the most recent version of each, or request a list the latest version of *every* known plugin. (see comment)
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Upgrading to WordPress 2.3 Dexter
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 09/25/2007
Well, considering that info is in the official release, maybe the blogger thought it was unnecessary to repeat it? (see comment)
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Collection of Awesome 404 Pages
Comment in News (11 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/13/2007
Amazingly enough, I managed to look at this page at the exact moment it had 404 diggs. Screenshot here: http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2007/09/13/perfect-404/ … (see comment)
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How to hide beer in office? [PICS]
Comment in News (4 diggs, 2 replies) - on 09/12/2007
At our company's old location, there was a can of beer that had been sitting in the fridge for years. It was an actual generic beer. No brand name or brewery, just a white can with a blue stripe and the word "beer" on the side, like the store-brand stuf … (see comment)
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Mozilla release mockups of Firefox 3's Places (bookmarks + history) (PIC)
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 09/12/2007
The only browser I've had freeze on digg was Opera 9.x, and it's considerably improved in the Opera 9.5 alpha. Firefox 2 and Opera 8.5 on the same box handle it fine. And I don't even have that fast a computer. (see comment)
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Mozilla release mockups of Firefox 3's Places (bookmarks + history) (PIC)
Comment in News (2 diggs, 2 replies) - on 09/12/2007
I absolutely agree. Multiple browsers give us competition on features. Multiple rendering engines give us competition on capabilities. Look at all the CSS3 properties Safari is adding to the next release, or Opera's implementation of SVG, or the WHATWG … (see comment)
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Four Hundred Million Firefox Downloads!
Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/08/2007
Why do people think Opera was the first to pass Acid2? That was Safari (April 2005). Anyone following the Acid2 test from the beginning watched the posts as David Hyatt fixed bug after bug, posting screenshots until the internal builds rendered it corre … (see comment)
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Four Hundred Million Firefox Downloads!
Comment in News (12 diggs, 0 replies) - on 09/07/2007
Well, don't forget the copies of Firefox that come pre-installed with most Linux distros these days. Or the people who download it once, then transfer it via LAN or thumb drive to other computers. (I've downloaded v.2 once for Windows, and installed it … (see comment)
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Mozilla COO: Steve Jobs "Not Good for the Web"
Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 06/15/2007
"Im reluctant to believe anything that says HTML/CSS were buggy and unavailable until IE7" That paragraph is talking about Internet Explorer's capabilities, not about the web in general. I take it you stopped reading at that point, before you got to t … (see comment)
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Mozilla COO: Steve Jobs "Not Good for the Web"
Comment in News (12 diggs, 0 replies) - on 06/15/2007
"are you telling me that you download and reuse the firefox interface?" Me, personally? No. But if I wanted to launch a new browser, like, say, Flock or IceWeasel, or the latest incarnation of Netscape, I could. Remember: different people have dif … (see comment)
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Mozilla COO: Steve Jobs "Not Good for the Web"
Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 06/15/2007
@triplehelix: That's what I was saying. That Safari on Windows could (in an ideal world, anyway) become the gateway that moves developers off of the two-browser model and onto the standards-based model. (see comment)
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Mozilla COO: Steve Jobs "Not Good for the Web"
Comment in News (15 diggs, 0 replies) - on 06/15/2007
"lol, seriously people tell me what's proprietary in Safari." The user interface. You can't just download and reuse the source code for the browser. You *can* reuse the source code for the rendering engine -- the part that actually displays the pag … (see comment)
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Mozilla COO: Steve Jobs "Not Good for the Web"
Comment in News (16 diggs, 0 replies) - on 06/14/2007
No, the COO of Mozilla is unhappy because Steve Jobs, in one of his slides, made it explicit that their goal is to eliminate *all* other browsers from the face of the web, with the exception of Internet Explorer. Slide 1: the web as it is today. 78% I … (see comment)
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