Author Archive: Vygantas

Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.

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Animated Favicons, Firefox Only?

By | September 12, 2007 | 3 Comments

Web BrowsersIs there anything wrong with the code itself or only Firefox (and Firefox based browsers) can handle animated favicons?

[link href="ico.gif" TYPE="image/gif" REL="icon"]
Changed <> with the [] so code would be visible.

http://www.pokelondon.com

I’ve checked this site with Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0.0.6, Opera 9.23, Opera 9.5 Alpha, Safari 3.0.3 Beta, and only in Firefox I’ve seen animated favicon. Any ideas?

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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (11 Sep 2007)

By | September 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox 3Let’s go straight to the point and check this build changelog (with bugs numbers).

Fixed:

  • #389437 [Core:Layout: Fonts and Text]-crashes [@ ns Sample Word Breaker: :NextWord] when using Alt+Arrow in text fields [All]
  • #391266 [Core:GFX]-with color management on, Acid2 face looks like a bankrobber [Win]
  • #394403 [Core:ImageLib]-Crash Viewing Image [ @ nsGIFDecoder2: :DoLzw] [Win]
  • #394534 [Core:HTML: Parser]-[FIX]First attribute doesn’t win in misplaced content [Lin]
  • #395407 [Toolkit:Breakpad Integration]-Symbol upload and unpack can conflict if builds have the same buildid [All]
  • #395633 [Firefox:Places]-backup date is wrong [Win]
  • Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

  • #393464 BACKOUT[Firefox:Places]-Bookmarks manager doesn’t search in tags field [All]
  • #395066 [Firefox:Places]-Hang when trying to clear browsing history [All]
  • Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:

  • #337761 [Core:XPCOM]-Folder does not open anymore for dragged link [All]
  • #339804 [Firefox:General]-Multiple login requests for authentification proxies if sessionstore is enabled [Win]
  • #386343 [Firefox:General]-Breakpad doesn’t work [Win]
  • #388209 [Firefox:Places]-bookmarks menu dnd indicator not visible if I want to drop an item before a separator [Win]
  • #389131 [Other Applications:Reporter]-Reporter should move away from SOAP (Reporter fails to send reports on trunk) [All]
  • #394079 [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]-Location bar autocomplete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]
  • #394910 [Firefox:Download Manager]-The download always goes to browser. download. lastDir when browser. download. Use DownloadDir is false [Win]
  • #395534 [Firefox:Download Manager]- browser. download. lastDir is ignored when right-clicking and “Save Link As …” when browser. download. Use Download Dir is true. [Win]
  • #000000 [Firefox:General]- Crashes with Adblock Plus (even if disabled)[All]
  • Download.

    Opera Developer Tools FAQ

    By | September 11, 2007 | 1 Comment

    Opera Developer ToolsIf you have no idea what is Opera Developer Tools, please check this page or just continue reading.

    These developer tools have been used by Web Application developers at Opera Software for some time. The tools are early previews, and should be considered alpha quality software. They are provided below in the form of buttons that can be dragged to any Opera toolbar. The tools are provided on an as-is basis.

    Now you may check Opera Developer Tools FAQ by David Storey here.

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    Some Statistics, Firefox Downloads and My.Opera.com Members

    By | September 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

    Firefox Recently Reached Four Hundred Million (400 000 000) Firefox Downloads.

    My.Opera.com Reached One Million (1 000 000) Members.

    And the question remains: how many active users?

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    IE7 Pro 1.1 Released

    By | September 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

    IE7 ProThis is probably a “must have” add-on for Internet Explorer 7 users.

    IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.

    Changelog:

  • Added Online Bookmarks
  • Added Text Saver
  • Added Privacy Cleaner
  • Easy Homepage Improvements
  • Fixed Some Bugs
  • Download now.

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    Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (10 Sep 2007)

    By | September 10, 2007 | 0 Comments

    Firefox Good evening everyone, we have another nightly release from Firefox team, it’s Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 of 10 Sep 2007. Changelog:

    Fixed:

  • [Firefox:Places]-Provide backup and restore functionality for Places bookmarks [All]
  • [Firefox:General]-[regression] No Protocol Handling Dialog Appears with Unknown Protocols [All]
  • [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- if the user chooses a result from autocomplete results, or types it manually, have that weigh heavily in ranking ac results [All]
  • [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]-when searching previous autocomplete results, if we find any, tell the front end immediately, instead of waiting for our first db query to return [All]
  • Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

  • [Firefox:Places]-Hang when trying to clear browsing history [All]
  • Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:

  • [Core:XPCOM]-Folder does not open anymore for dragged link [All]
  • [Firefox:General]-Multiple login requests for authentification proxies if sessionstore is enabled [Win]
  • [Firefox:General]-Breakpad doesn’t work [Win]
  • [Firefox:Places]-bookmarks menu dnd indicator not visible if I want to drop an item before a separator [Win]
  • [Other Applications:Reporter]- Reporter should move away from SOAP (Reporter fails to send reports on trunk) [All]
  • [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- Location bar autocomplete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]
  • [Firefox:Download Manager]-The download always goes to browser.download.lastDir when browser.download.useDownloadDir is false [Win]
  • [Firefox:Download Manager]- browser. download. lastDir is ignored when right-clicking and “Save Link As …” when browser. download. useDownloadDir is true. [Win]
  • [Firefox:General]-Crashes with Adblock Plus (even if disabled) [All]
  • Download.

    Opera Mini 4 Beta 2, Mini Review

    By | September 10, 2007 | 1 Comment

    Although it’s not a final Opera Mini 4 version we can still make a short review about it.

    Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 Loading Screen
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    Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (7 Sep 2007)

    By | September 7, 2007 | 0 Comments

    FirefoxIt’s Friday evening here and it’s time for yet another Firefox 3 Pre Alpha 8 nightly build from Firefox team. Let’s go straight to the changelog then.

    Fixed:

  • [Core:GFX: Thebes]-“ASSERTION: lost track of line breaks somehow” with text-transform [Mac]
  • [Core:SVG]-Rationalise SVG frame construction [All]
  • [Firefox:File Handling]-web-based protocol handler defaulting in mimeTypes.rdf [All]
  • [Firefox:Places]-Bookmarks manager doesn’t search in tags field [All]
  • [Core:Spelling checker]-Update Hunspell to version 1.1.12 [All]
  • [Firefox:General]-Toolbar customization sheet is broken [Mac]
  • [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- show tag results in url bar autocomplete [All]
  • Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

  • [Firefox:Places]-code to drop the user_title column from moz_places table
  • Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:

  • [Core:XPCOM]-Folder does not open anymore for dragged link [All]
  • [Firefox:General]-Multiple login requests for authentification proxies if sessionstore is enabled [Win]
  • [Firefox:General]-Breakpad doesn’t work [Win]
  • [Firefox:Places]-bookmarks menu dnd indicator not visible if I want to drop an item before a separator [Win]
  • [Other Applications:Reporter]-Reporter should move away from SOAP (Reporter fails to send reports on trunk) [All]
  • [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- Location bar autocomplete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]
  • [Core:ImageLib]-Crash Viewing Image [ @ nsGIF Decoder2: :DoLzw] [Win]
  • [Firefox:Download Manager]-Crash if you stop a paused download [@ nsDownloadManager: :ExecuteDesiredAction] [Win]
  • Download now.

    Opera 9.5 – Synchronization Explained

    By | September 7, 2007 | 2 Comments

    OperaRecently Opera Desktop Team wrote a nice article about my opera synchronization (My Opera synchronization explained). You can read it here. As you can guess, article explains about whole synchronization process as well.

    New BlackBerry Browser Or Opera Mini?

    By | September 7, 2007 | 0 Comments

    New BlackBerry Browser Or Opera Mini? Take your time and vote. Current results:

    What would be your preferred BlackBerry browser?

    Opera Mini, of course! (61%)
    I need to know more: comparison test would be good but I haven’t got the time (18%)
    The bundled-in browser already on my BlackBerry (9%)
    I love this new BlackBerry browser we’re talking about-can’t wait (8%)
    Couldn’t care less- rarely browse Web on my BB (3%)