Posts Tagged ‘firefox’

Giving up on FF3b5

What a shame! I’ve tried switching back to using FireFox 3 Beta 5, but I just can’t get it to keep running on my Vista laptop. It runs for a bit, crashes, then Windows reports a Data Execution Prevention issue with it. This morning I just get getting DEP errors...

Now on Firefox v3

So, I’ve done the deed and installed Firefox v3 beta 3.? It seems pretty stable, haven’t had any issues in the 5 minutes I’ve been running it, and I’m loving all the new functionality. I love the location bar (see left) and particularly like the Page Info dialog box; that...

FireFox v3

Just in case you haven’t noticed, Firefox Version 3 has hit its Beta 3 release, which is a pretty important milestone for them. It’s the version that gets released to testers around the world. It’s not intended for public consumption, but rather for developers and testers to play with. Now,...

Facebook goes large

The news in the press today is that Facebook has just acquired Parakey. For those who haven’t heard of Parakey before, they’re an outfit working on closing the gap between the Internet and your desktop. The founders of this “Web-OS” company are Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt,? the two people...

Technorati Status Bar Upate

Ok guys, I have a new version (0.3) of the FireFox Extension that lets you check the Technorati ranking of the site you’re currently viewing. Download here: Technorati Status Bar This one is better because: 1. It works (API key of 0.1 expired somehow) 2. It works on every page...

Problem with Technorati Plugin for FireFox

Well, my Firefox Plugin for Technorati was working nicely, but all of a sudden it seems to have died. After a bit of research I found out that API calls are limited to 500 a day, and I thought I might have overrun this. However, when I tried checking the...

Firefox plugin to check Technorati Rank

I’ve just finished writing my first FireFox plugin. It sits in your Status Bar and reports on the Technorati Ranking of the website or blog you’re looking at at that particular moment in time. It’s out for testing at the moment with a couple of mate, but I’ll post it...

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