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Tune Up Your Firefox about:blank Page

By Vygantas | September 16, 2007 | 0 Comments

Isn’t Firefox about:blank page bit boring? Just a white backgrund and nothing else. Have you ever wanted to make it look different? Guess what. You can do that now with Firefox Stylish add-on.

Some cool looking about:blank pages

Firefox about:blank
Download.

Firefox about:blank dark
Download.

I had some problems after installing “about:blank – FF blurry” style. It messed up all my other styles. Maybe that’s just me, but don’t say that I haven’t warned you. Use it on your own risk.

You can find many about:blank pages styles here or even create your own one.

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Opera 9.5 Post-Alpha Released

By Vygantas | September 14, 2007 | 0 Comments

It’s been 10 days since the very first Opera 9.5 Alpha release. Today Opera team released Opera 9.5 Post-Alpha version. This build includes lots of bug fixes as well as some minor new things, for example: X button on notifiers. Regardless bug fixes there are still some known issues:

Wand doesn’t save anymore

Yahoo mail beta might crash Opera

Some UNIX packages are missing

Opera 9.5 won’t work on Windows 98/95

Changelog

[272376] Cursor in source viewer positioned at the end

[277681] Some order lists are displayed as unordered lists

[279302] Line wrapping does not work correctly in some cases, causing overly long lines of text and horizontal scrollbars; often seen at Wikipedia

[280678] Files are often saved with the incorrect file extension

[281550] Setting an external source viewer does not work

[267842] View bar is available in the customization dialog again

[274676] Original text color (inside tables) not reverted when closing content blocker dialog

[267859] Numbers (and borders) not shown in configured speed dial entries

[273030] Text squished/mashed together after removing thumbnail

[273822] Link focused by inline find cannot be activated (Enter doesn’t work after spatnav)

[281879] Show cached images randomly breaks

[282003] Lots of unread messages and drafts after upgrade

APNG 1.0 support added. Will work as animated gifs on webpages and skins

Select custom application when downloading files

Add multithreading to mail for improved performanced

Added x button on notifiers

Fixed IE bookmark folder import

General stability fixes

Tons of layout/js fixes

Windows specific changes

Greatly improved performance with alpha transparency (animations, scrolling)

Mac specific changes

Further tweaking of tabs in native skin

Removed page loading spinner from Address bar

Rounded edges on many dialog Title bars

Fixed application window focus/activation problems

Fixed problems with Flash problems with wmode=opaque and CSS hover

Prevent some start-up freezes

Pulsing progress bar

As you know it’s not a final Opera 9.5 release, use it on your own risk.

Windows
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix

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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (13 Sep 2007)

By Vygantas | September 14, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox Yet another nightly build from Firefox team. It’s Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8, 13 Sep 2007, this version includes only one bug fix (according to changelog) which is:

#395862 [Firefox:General]-Help > About broken in trunk [All]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

#395066 [Firefox:Places]-Hang when trying to clear browsing history [All]

Everything else seems to be the same since the previous nightly build.

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Animated Favicons, Firefox Only?

By Vygantas | September 12, 2007 | 3 Comments

Web Browsers Is 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 Vygantas | September 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox 3 Let’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]

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Opera Developer Tools FAQ

By Vygantas | September 11, 2007 | 1 Comment

If 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 Vygantas | 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 Vygantas | September 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

IE7 Pro This 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

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

By Vygantas | 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]

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