The Life and Programming of Cameron Crothers
I have started to learn XUL over at XULPlanet and looking at the way Firefox works and have just been playing around and I made something cool. And no this wasn’t created using the GIMP it was created using only Firefox so give it a whirl just click chrome://browser/content/browser.xul. WARNING: This will most likely cause [...]
Well after 18 months of development it is finally here. The 1.0 release of Mozilla Firefox and so far it seems to have fixed a few of those little problems with 1.0PR(1.0 Pre-Release). With this release finally marking as stable it means today more than ever we should be recommending to everyone from your Tech [...]
Here at work we I am running Windows 2000 and for the longest time the fact that tray icons could only have 16 colours has annoyed me for the longest time. With a lot of newer programs creating their icons to this high colour made the UI(User Interface) look really bad :(. However to day [...]
In my tradition of telling you all about great extensions that I find for Firefox. I announce the Spelchecker SpellBound which allows you to spell check input fields in Firefox. Which is great for people like me who use bulletin boards and blogs. It’s not in update.mozilla.org yet but it is stable from what I [...]
Just a quick note Firefox 1.0 Pre-Release has gone out today. Is quite stable and there are a few new interface features which are quite cool. So http://www.getfirefox.com
Just last week I was saying how we weren’t going to see a new version of Internet Explorer until Longhorn was released however today I read this article which is saying Microsoft is now possibly ramping up it’s development. All I can say is that they have a fair way to go in terms of [...]
With Microsoft’s decision to not to release any new versions of Internet Explorer independent of new versions of Windows. With Longhorn looking like it’s still at least a year away and might even be held further back if hardware doesn’t catch up to it could be pushed back even further. But even if Microsoft pulls [...]
Just got another plugin for WordPress a nice weather one so you can see what the weather is like in Melbourne today This plugin comes from Sonicpling – Jeremiah’s Blog great work yey for weather. And I just notices that Internet Explorer doesn’t have a very good png engine, that is the alpha layer doesn’t [...]
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I have been using a advanced tab extension for Firefox lately which I have found very useful for tweaking the way Firefox uses tabs. You can find it here, screenshots are in japanese but you’ll get the idea. A fantastic extension for anyone who wants a bit more from their browser.
