Archive for the 'Firefox' Category

Firefox 3 gets off to a bad start

Posted by rob on June 17th, 2008 filed in Firefox

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 [...]

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Stop Javascript from disabling window resizing

Posted by rob on February 19th, 2008 filed in Firefox

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 [...]

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Firefox gains market share…

Posted by rob on February 3rd, 2008 filed in Firefox

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 [...]

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Nofollow attributes in Firefox

Posted by rob on November 17th, 2006 filed 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:

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