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A Not So Fond Farewell…

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

To IE 6…Technorati Tags: IE6, browser

Busy Day at the Office for Mozilla

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

The much publicized release of Firefox 3.0 and the goal of setting a world record for the most downloads in 24 hrs has the Mozilla servers on the ropes. Here’s a direct link to the setup file: Firefox Setup 3.0.exe. Good luck! Technorati Tags: Firefox, Mozilla, FF3

iPhone Instant Messenger

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

So, apparently there are some complaints about the lack of an IM client for the iPhone. “Sure, it has SMS…but we want the real deal!” I think the existence of Meebo makes this a virtual non-issue. Early reports claim that it will work because the iPhone’s browser is reported to be a full version of [...]

Safari 3.0 Beta Versions

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

The user agent on my Window XP SP2 machine is 522.11.3, on my OS X 10.4.9 machine it’s 522.11. While browsing my web stats for the last 24 hours, I noticed a user agent I had not seen before: Safari 522.8.3. What version is this? Vista? iPhone? Alpha? Update: I just upgraded to Safari 3.0.1 [...]

Safari Getting Closer

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Following up on this post… Andrew Dupont mentions some of the improvements to the next version of Apple’s Safari web browser rapidly approaching release. Meanwhile, the Webkit development team is focusing on stabilization. Technorati Tags: Safari, Webkit, Apple, Leopard

Walmart Hates Firefox Users?

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Walmart has launched it’s movie download site, and labeled it Beta. How “Web 2.0″ of them. Apparently Walmart doesn’t like Firefox users. Here it is in Firefox 2.0, Windows XP: …and here it is in IE7, Windows XP: …and in Safari 2.0.4, Apple 10.4.8: Technorati Tags: Walmart, mediadownloads.walmart.com, Firefox

Safari Bugs (Bring on OS 10.5 Leopard)

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

I remember feeling a little defensive when I first learned that not all Mac users love Safari. Perhaps it was because I was being ridiculed for liking Safari. I have tried several times to make Firefox my primary browser on the Mac (it already is on PC), but keep coming back. However, it is becoming [...]