If you’ve read this blog before, you know I’m a big Firefox fan. But the one problem that has dogged me is the inevitable bloat that Firefox suffers when open for long periods of time. I work in my browser all day, and after 8 hours it has usually gobbled up all the available RAM, [...]
Read More browsers, desktop tips, open sourceReviews for Apple’s iPad are all over the place. Personally, I feel that tablets have tried and failed enough times in the general consumer market to call the concept dead. iPad will likely find adoption in the same niche’s as its predecessors: hospitals and other similar venues where it can effectively replace a manilla folder [...]
Read More browsers, usability failWith all the fancy cURL-based API’s out there these days (Facebook and Twitter immediately come to mind), using cURL to directly access and manipulate data is becoming quite common. However like all programming, there’s always the chance for an error to occur, and thus these calls must be immediately followed by error checks to ensure [...]
Read More browsers, php, software development, TwitterUpdate: Xenocode has decided to eschew usability in favor of…well nothing really. In order to use the browser sandboxes now, you must “initialize” them from the site, which amounts to downloading the files you need in order to execute the sandbox. You can circumvent this genius decision by downloading the browser of choice, then open [...]
Read More browsers, Microsoft sucks, software development, usability, user interfacesThat’s what I keep getting everywhere I go in the Google universe for the past several days using Firefox (using latest stable release, v3.0.6). I know I’m not the only one, I’ve found a plethora of recent support posts discussing the same issue. Normally I’m the one writing here to say “Hey, look out for [...]
Read More browsers, crappy coding, usabilityIt seems to be some rite of passage for tech-focused blogs that they create a list of their favorite Firefox extensions. Who am I to break custom? If you’re not a web-developer, you can ignore the ones described as such, and consider the rest highly recommended. I have yet to find someone with as many [...]
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