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Tag Archives: browser
Daily Links for Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Macintosh Official Google Mac Blog: Google Chrome for Mac goes beta! Official Google Mac Blog 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code and 29 developer builds later, we’re excited to finally release Google Chrome for Mac in beta. We took a hefty … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, December 7, 1009
Software Microsoft to randomly generate EU browser ballot list Ars Technica / Emil Protalinski The previous method had them listed in alphabetical order, putting Apple’s Safari first. Complaints from Opera, Google, and Mozilla resulted in the change, and also pushed … Continue reading
Firefox pulls ahead of Microsoft Internet Explorer in Germany
Der Spiegel Online has a chart showing that use of the Firefox Browser has now pulled ahead of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) in Germany, 45.6% to 44.4%. While these numbers are close and the margin of error is probably bigger … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Open Source The Open Source Initiative’s corporate status is suspended: a CAOS Theory Q&A 451 CAOS Theory / Matthew Aslett The ability of the Open Source Initiative to steward the Open Source Definition and police the use of the term … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Apache, browser, Chrome, Google, Linux, OSI, Second Life
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Daily Links for Sunday, September 6, 2009
Open Source Ubuntu’s Karmic Koala emerges in alpha 5 DesktopLinux.com The Ubuntu project released Karmic Koala alpha 5 (Ubuntu 9.10), which adds Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud support, a new Ubuntu Cloud file-sharing service, and default switches to GCC 4.4, Ext4, and … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 24, 2009 – Evening Edition
Macintosh Apple to Release Snow Leopard on August 28 PC World “The wait for Snow Leopard is over: on Monday, Apple announced that the latest version of its Mac OS X operating system would be available starting Friday, August 28. … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 7, 2009
Linux and Sun IBM: UNIX to Linux Migration Rate Growing “Inna Kuznetsova, Director, Linux Strategy, led the meeting attended by IT analysts and painted a telling picture of what IBM’s Linux business has been in recent months: in short, strong … Continue reading
Firefox extensions – will they work in 3.5?
So Firefox 3.5 is out and I’m looking forward to trying it, but I can wait. Why? I use a number of extensions and I don’t want to be without them. Courtesy of the Extension List Dumper extension, here are … Continue reading
links for 2007-06-19
Music, Sort Of In A Metal Mood – No More Mr. Nice Guy, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic You could be the first to review! (tags: music) Elections and Source Code Sides spar over voting machine rule -Times Union … Continue reading
The pull of Apple from Windows
Over in the New York Times, there’s an article about how Apple has released a beta of Safari 3 for Windows. I think this is good news, but then I like browsers. I have Firefox, IE, Opera, and now Safari … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-27
Open Source OpenOffice ships version 2.0.4, seeks extensions, turns six Direct export to LaTeX is a cool idea – gives you professional quality typesetting. (tags: openoffice sun opensource latex) Geek to Live: Top Firefox 2 config tweaks – Lifehacker Via … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News
Tagged browser, Firefox, OpenOffice.org, real estate, UK
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Firefox 2.0 is available
As a follow-up to my post of a couple of days ago, Firefox 2.0 has been officially released. I’m also very happy that two of favorite extensions, Tabbrowser Preferences and Del.icio.us has been updated to support version 2.0.
Firefox 2.0 RC3
Just ahead of the final release of Firefox 2.0, I decided to download RC 3 and take it for a ride. Verdict: very nice look and feel, great stability, but where are my extensions? Actually, I know where some of … Continue reading
What browsers are people using on sutor.com?
I’ve been trying out Mint for the last week to see some more statistics on how people are accessing my blog and overall website. It’s been helpful, though it tells me nothing about the use of the RSS and ATOM … Continue reading
links for 2006-07-10
Lotus Notes on Linux CRN | IBM To Release Full Notes For Linux “A Notes client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3, will be available on July 24, with a version for Novell SUSE Linux Desktop for Enterprise … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source
Tagged browser, conference, Firefox, Linux, OpenOffice.org, PDF
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links for 2006-07-09
SourceForge.net: ODF Add-in for Word 2007 “Open XML Translator provides tools to build a technical bridge between the Open XML Formats and Open Document Format(ODF).” (tags: microsoft odf opensource) Microsoft Still Finding Its Way With Updated Internet Explorer “If you … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source
Tagged browser, Firefox, IE, Microsoft, ODF
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links for 2006-06-21
One of everything today, including an open source-related career move. Higgins Trust Framework makes its debut at Harvard ID conference “Earlier today, here at the Identity Mashup Conference being put on by the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet … Continue reading
Firefox browser downloads
I was just updating a presentation slide that said that Firefox had been downloaded over 100 million times. I went to the site and discovered that the number is now in excess of 150 million. I’m not sure how long … Continue reading
My Firefox extensions
Sometime last year I published the list of Firefox extensions I use. They come and they go, but this is my latest set. The “Slim Extension List” is what gives the list this format and it also allows you to … Continue reading
Opera vs. Firefox – browser war
Interesting article over at The Register: “Opera tunes up to overtake Firefox”. So here’s what I and I think a lot of other users want: fully and compliantly implement the key web standards, support multiple platforms, have a great user … Continue reading
More on the Copright Office browser brouhaha from John Patrick
John Patrick has written a great blog entry on the topic. See “Open the Web”.
Washington Post article on Copyright Office and IE
As I mentioned a week or so ago, the US Copyright Office plans to require the use of Internet Explorer. The Washington Post ran a story today “Copyright Program To Require Explorer: Experts Criticize Allowing Only One Internet Browser”. I … Continue reading
Slashdot entry on the US Copyright Office and browser support
This appeared yesterday on Slashdot: “US Copyright Office Considering MSIE-only website”. This is my personal opinion, but I don’t think my government should be telling me what browser I must use to access its websites, especially with all the work … Continue reading
IBM, Firefox, and Accessibility
See the article in InternetNews: “IBM Donates Code to Firefox”. I’ll post some more links later today. Update: Here is the press release: “IBM Contributes Open Source Code to Make FireFox Browser More Accessible”. Update #2: Here’s another link, this … Continue reading
Firefox: product of the year
at least according to PC World Magazine (via mozillaZine).
No IE 7 for Windows 2000?
According to Ars Technica there will be no IE 7 upgrade for Windows 2000. I can understand the logic to try to encourage people to move to XP and then Longhorn, as well as some of the technical issues because … Continue reading
Links and some comments for May 17, 2005
‘Tagging’ helps unclutter data (CNN) Is this how we’ll see the Semantic Web hit the mainstream? Actually it has, via RSS and RDF, but this makes it more obvious. IE7 Has Tabs (IEBlog) I can’t wait. James Governor’s MonkChips: PHP … Continue reading
Firefox article in Wired
A very good article on the Firefox browser is in this month’s Wired magazine and is now online. I suggest you don’t read this from the anti-IE perspective but rather from looking at what innovation can occur from people working … Continue reading
New Firefox is available
Version 1.0 of the Firefox browser is now available. I use Firefox for 95% of what I do and highly recommend it. Some of the pre-1.0 extensions are not yet available, but they should be within a few days, if … Continue reading
Some links
Service at Your Discretion Express Delivery Give me Firefox, or give me death New Era of the Open-Source Millionaire The Scheme Programming Language Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project
