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Lifehacker’s Browser speed tests: Chrome 10 is a winner

December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Lifehacker recently conducted a set of tests aimed to measure the speed of IE 9, Firefox 4 Beta, Chrome’s Crankshaft (also known as version 10), and Opera 11 Beta. And overall, it looks like the new version of Chrome is a winner!

Firefox 3.6(!) actually beat Chrome 10 in two areas: memory usage with extensions and without extensions. Chrome 8 beat out Chrome 10 in tab loading, and Opera 11 Beta took the lead in DOM/CSS processing (over Opera 10 and Chrome 10).

See the full article at Lifehacker.com for a detailed analysis.

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Firefox 3.6 release today!

January 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Today is the official release of Firefox 3.6, at 9:30AM Pacific Time (12:30PM Eastern). There are some early bird links available around the web, amongst which the Kabatology blog.

If you’d rather wait for the official release, don’t just twiddle your thumbs: watch this 2 minute video about the new features in 3.6:

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Weave Add-On goes to version 1.0 beta 1

November 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

It looks like the Mozilla Labs Weave add-on is getting close to a 1.0 version, with Monday’s release of the 1.0 beta 1.

Weave is an add-on that can synchronize your bookmarks, history, saved passwords and tabs between multiple machines. It stores all this information encrypted on a Mozilla-run server, but you can also set up your own Weave server to store all the info.

The 1.0 release has a change in the database and API, so if you are using Weave, make sure you upgrade all the machines using it. If you’re running your own server, you need to upgrade it too (minor change in the Apache configuration).

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Google Reader Notifier for Firefox is now Crapware

July 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment

The How-to Geek has an article about how the Firefox extension Google Reader Notifier is now tracking your browsing and displaying ads. It also shows you how to remove this crap if you’ve updated the plug-in.

If you use Google Reader Notifier, please head over to The Geek’s blog and remove it from your system, before more harm is done.

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Firefox equivalent of Internet Explorer’s Every Time I visit the Web page

April 1, 2009 By 4 Comments

We have a little rotating web page setup in our break room, and have been using a dial indicator to show our performance in bookings and shipments. However, due to the nature of the set-up (a page, showing a flash file, that is configured by an XML file), it turned out to be necessary in Internet Explorer to use the option “Every time I visit the webpage” on the “Check for newer versions of stored pages:” setting in the Temporary Internet Files and History Settings.

Unfortunately, Internet Explorer 7 still can’t handle CSS properly, so some of the tables looked horrible. Switching to Firefox fixed that problem. But now the old data was showing. And where is that “Newer versions of stored pages” setting in Firefox???

It’s hiding in the config. In the address bar, type

about:config

Then find the setting browser.cache.check_doc_frequency, and change it to 1. This will duplicate the Internet Explorer behavior (as far as loading cached page goes, mind you!).

The options for this setting are as follows:

ValueDescription
0Check for a new version of a page once per session
1Check for a new version every time a page is loaded
2Never check for a new version – always load the page from cache
3Check for a new version when the page is out of date (Default)
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