TagsTagsHere's a tech note that will, as all tech notes do, almost immediately turn into a Friday night open thread. I've gotten several complaints about the LGF front page crashing in the Opera browser, or taking forever to load if it doesn't crash. I traced the problem to a recent change in ...
Little Green Footballs, Tech Note, Javascript, Opera, Browsers, jQuery, Fat Lady
Reports of the death of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (aka Satan’s Browser) may have been greatly exaggerated. Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser—a decade-old dinosaur engineered to navigate the Web ...
Internet, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, IE6, Browsers, Demonic Possession, Heinous
Firefox 3.5, a major update, has been released into the wild.
The official non-beta version of Firefox 3 has been released, and they’re trying to set a record for number of downloads in 24 hours: Mozilla | Firefox web browser & Thunderbird email client.
Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is out of the gate; this is supposed to be the version between beta and final release: Firefox web browser | International versions: Get Firefox in your language. Firebug (the Javascript debugger) still doesn’t work with this, so if you rely on that extension as much ...
The last official beta version of Firefox 3 is out, it’s supposed to be even faster and most of the bugs are supposed to have been fixed, and it probably isn’t going to change too much more for the final release: Firefox 3 beta 5 now available for download.
The fourth beta version of Firefox 3 has been released, with significant speed improvements in its Javascript engine. I’ve been running some simple tests with LGF and it seems to be about twice as fast at some important Javascript operations—for example, looking up page elements by their ID attributes. ...
Let’s have a moment of silence, please, for the demise of Netscape Navigator. The first browser I ever used. Sob. I’ll miss ... actually, no, I won’t really miss it. It birthed the web as we know it. But February 1 marks the demise of Netscape Navigator, the first commercial web ...