Topic archive for
‘Firefox’
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Mozilla is going to stop supporting Mac OS X 10.4 aka “Tiger” with its Firefox development code. On the Mozilla Dev Planning Google Group, they addressed this.
“In September of 2009 we stopped supporting Mac OS X 10.4 (‘Tiger’) on mozilla-central but we left much of the code required to support that platform in the tree [...]
By: Chris Crum in Firefox, Mac OS X, Mozilla
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Mozilla announced earlier this week that Firefox for Mobile was available for the Nokia N900 handset. Now Firefox developer Vladimir Vukićević is saying that Firefox for Android is coming along, and had even posted a screenshot.
“It’s been a while since I posted a progress update (or really any blog post, ahem), but porting Firefox/Fennec to [...]
By: Chris Crum in Firefox, web developers
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Mozilla has finally released its first mobile version of the Firefox browser. It’s available for the Nokia N900 device, supported on Nokia’s Maemo 5 platform, but will be available for other devices as the year progresses.
Firefox for mobile is the first mobile web browser that supports add-ons. Naturally, that means its time for developers to [...]
By: Chris Crum in add-ons, Firefox, mobile, Mozilla, Open Source, web browsers
Friday, January 29th, 2010
If you’re serious about doing SEO yourself – then you need to turn your website browser into one of your most valuable SEO tools.
Any experienced Search Engine Optimization specialist will swear by his top SEO plugins and add-ons. Having vital SEO info and stats at your fingertips is not only a great timesaving, but ensure’s [...]
By: Rene LeMerle in Dreamweaver, Firefox, SEO, Web Development
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
As you may know, Mozilla released version 3.6 of Firefox today. I’m not going to get into all of the new features here (go here for more on that), but there are some new things under the hood for developers. These include:
- Support for the latest HTML5 specification, including the File API for local file [...]
By: Chris Crum in browsers, CSS, Firefox, HTML5, Mozilla, Open Source, WOFF
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
This post is all about reducing the amount of abnormal memory that Firefox uses.Typical memory usage of Firefox reported on Windows OS is around 50MB-100MB depending on number or quality of active plug-ins or themes. But Firefox memory usage depends on your hardware. If abnormal memory usage of Firefox is important for you and you’re [...]
in Design, Firefox, Flash, Java, PHP
Friday, December 18th, 2009
I use Firebug constantly to easily edit a website’s CSS so I can fine tune a design or make adjustments, so when it stopped working, so did I. Everytime I would try to live-edit a site’s CSS it would give me “Failed to load source for: <whatever css=”” file=””>“. I tweeted about it a bit [...]
By: Dustin Brewer in CSS, Design, Firefox, Google
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Maybe you’ve seen a lot of free Icons so far. But you know most of them are just free to personal use and if you’re making some commercial products like premium WordPress themes, most of the free icons you’ve seen are not free to commercial use.
I was setting up my toolkit for designing some premium [...]
in Design, Firefox, Google Chrome, PHP, Wordpress
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
One of the common complaints I hear about ColdFusion’s popularity (or perceived lack thereof) is that we don’t have any of the ‘killer’ open source applications that make PHP (or insert language of choice) so popular.
If you look around at great open source applications (MediaWiki, Drupal, Wordpress, Apache, OpenOffice, Linux, Firefox etc), they all have [...]
By: Sean Corfield in ColdFusion, Firefox, Open Source, PHP, Programming, Wordpress
Monday, September 14th, 2009
Assuming that you’re smarter than the average bear when it comes to computer savvy, allow me to introduce you to a Firefox add-on that saves time and simplifies life. It’s called iMacros, and once you start using this addition, you begin to wonder how you got along without it before. [...]
in Design, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Programming, SEO