Posts Tagged ‘browsers’
Easier Cross-Browser Testing
Posted on January 15, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Cross-browser testing is one of those aspects of web development that no one really likes, but everyone has to do. It’s gotten better, don’t get me wrong. As browsers have slowly crawled (some more slowly than others *cough*IE*cough*) towards achieving standards compliance, the differences between browsers has become far less drastic than it used to [...]
Firefox Add-On ErrorZilla breaks FF3 SSL error page
Posted on July 8, 2008 by snipe in Tips & Tricks
If you use the Firefox add-on ErrorZilla, which conveniently displays additional options (Try Again, Google Cache, Coralize, Wayback, Ping, Trace, and Whois buttons) when Firefox hits an error page, you may notice something frustrating happening in Firefox 3.
Sync Your Browsers Across Multiple Computers with Mozilla Weave
Posted on July 2, 2008 by snipe in Life Tools
Those of you who have upgraded to Firefox 3 may be feeling the loss of Google Browser Sync, Google’s free Firefox addon that previously allowed you to sync bookmarks, stored password, cookies and more across multiple computers. For folks like me, who work on multiple computers throughout the course of the day, this was an [...]
Hacking Firefox
Posted on June 23, 2008 by snipe in Featured
Excellent (and long) article here that covers most of the frequently-asked-for tweaks and hacks to about:config in Firefox.
I had originally found it while trying to remember how to tweak my Firefox so that when I type in a keyword string into the address bar, it would send me to Google search results, instead of Google’s [...]
Tweak Firefox 3 to Display Richer Colors
Posted on June 22, 2008 by snipe in Tips & Tricks
If the digital photo you just uploaded looks more washed out in Flickr than it does in your desktop image editor, that’s because Firefox 3’s advanced color management capability isn’t turned on by default. To turn it on, type about:config in Firefox 3’s address bar, then click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button. Then, [...]
Multiple IEs
Posted on January 20, 2007 by snipe in Web Development, Windows Downloads
This is handy for when you need to test a website out in multiple versions of Internet Explorer. And its free! Windows only, but then again, IE for Mac is out of development, so its less of an issue. Installation is a breeze, and I’ve set it up on several systems without so much as [...]
