Archive for the 'Firefox' Category
Firefox 3 gets off to a bad start
It looks like Mozilla’s Firefox Download Day has got off to a bad start - this was the picture at 1800 UK time (the exact time of release):
I’m guessing they’ve hit unprecedented traffic volumes, as there were a lot of people waiting for this. Conspiracy theorists might say that Microsoft probably set up a well-timed [...]
Read More..>>Stop Javascript from disabling window resizing
One of the all time most irritating Javascript functions has to be the ‘resizable = 0‘ property that’s used within the ‘window.open()‘ function. This often results in content that doesn’t quite fit the windows that pop up - grrr.
Anyway, Firefox has an option that disables some window resizing, but not most of it - this [...]
Firefox gains market share…
According to a French survey company XiTi Monitor, Mozilla’s Firefox browser hit a whopping 28% share of the European internet ‘visit share’ in December 2007, gaining at the expense of Internet Explorer.
One wonders how much, if at all this has to do with scraping. I know that I for one do 99% of my scraping [...]
Nofollow attributes in Firefox
If you want an easy way of highlighting ‘nofollow’ attributes on links viewed in Firefox, go to the following directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[random string].default\chrome\
Then change the name of userContent-example.css to:
userContent.css
Open the file up in any text editor (such as notepad), and copy and paste the following code: