Ha, I’m getting better, aren’t I? Well, still a day behind, but Deer Park Alpha has been released. Not much new to report per se, but you can check the changelog to be sure.
Category Archives: Web Browsers
New Deer Park RCs released
OK, perhaps you should just monitor Asa’s blog, cuz on Friday another round of Deer Park alphas were released. I’m so lame….
While I’m here, I can guarantee that Opera is still in 8.01 preview 1. To be notified when this changes, subscribe to this thread on Opera’s forums.
Firefox 1.1 RC Released
Well, it’s not called that, so only techies bother with it. But it was released yesterday, includes some of the cool features I mentioned previously (quicker Back/Forward action, etc.) Sorry for the delay in reporting, have a medical issue going on…more on that soon…
UPDATE: As part of my penance for being so late, thought I’d at least provide a link to the changelog.
Critical Firefox 1.0.3 exploit discovered
Wow, talk about fodder for the MS people, seems a new critical vulnerability has been discovered in Firefox 1.0.3. Basically a site could create and execute a local file, looks like something related to FF’s pseudo-ActiveX implementation?? Not an expert on that…
Anyhoo, looks like the only known fix is to remove all sites from your download whitelist in the Options. Would highly recommend that for everyone…
Opera 8.01 PR1 released, and update on FF
Due to some widespread problems for some users clicking on links, Opera 8.01 Preview 1 has been released. Mainly just bug fixes…
Also, to followup on my previous post, the 05/07 nightly (trunk) build of Firefox now seems to be stabler, and you can at least install extensions, although I think my problems were I was using an older profile; using a new profile, it works fine (duh!).
However, most of the current themes will break. Apparently there have been some changes in that realm, not surprisingly.
But in general, most extensions I use seem to work, although changing Options for them now involves changing them via user.js, as the Options window interaction for a majority of them seem to be buggy. And a few just won’t work (Tab Mix, etc.), including those that don’t conform to having a GUID as their internal ID; the latter is easily fixable by changing it in the install.rdf yourself before installing. But for the most part you can get a good jumpstart with the nightlies if you want.
In general, the speed-up is nice, but the speed of it and that of the UI is still much slower than Opera. Going back…
Firefox speeds up
Hmmm, Firefox has finally started addressing one of my big gripes, how slow it is when hitting the Back (or Forward) buttons. Opera’s long held the lead regarding that, and is a big reason I won’t consider switching full-time.
Beware, though, it’s very early and experimental, in fact it’s disabled in the nightlies by default. Interestingly they OK’d this to be checked into the trunk code whilst it is frozen except for ‘approved modifications’, as they work towards 1.1. Plus the current nightlies won’t load themes or extensions, so don’t know that I’ll be checking it out anytime soon.
Opera 8 released
Opera 8 was released today, and I must say it’s about time 🙂 They’ve simplified the interface immensely, so as to not intimidate the n00bs, although I’m sure it’s not dumbed-down enough; don’t worry, for us power-users it still has all the bells and whistles there ‘in back’. But with voice, SVG, and User Javascript support (ala GreaseMonkey), it’s one of their bigger releases. The full changelog is on their site, I’m merely passing by them here….but it’s actually been getting decent response, even on Slashdot (believe me, that’s ‘decent’ for how /. normally looks upon non-Firefox products.
I can’t say I’m too impressed by their new ‘marketing’ on their website, er, the images that is. Some poor man’s superhero? Come on, paying customers demand more….
Still kicks the crap out of Firefox, though!
Oh, yeah, guess I should mention, Firefox 1.0.3 was released last week. Not much outside of security fixes…
Proxomitron Filters – Yahoo! Search Sponsored Results
As you pry know, these tech/geek posts will happen alot on this site; not only am I a hip 30-something year old, but also a successful computer consultant during the day…(can’t wait til the wife reads that one)…
Anyway, created a couple Proxomitron filters today to remove the sponsored results and news sections from Yahoo!’s search results page(s). They just get in the way…
Name = "Yahoo! Search News Results"
Active = TRUE
URL = "search.yahoo.com"
Limit = 2064
Match = "<div id=yschiy>*</div>"
Name = "Yahoo! Search Sponsor Results"
Active = TRUE
URL = "search.yahoo.com"
Limit = 6024
Match = "<div class=yschspns>*<div class=yschhd>*</div>*</div>"
Let me know of a better approach if you have one…
Lektora 1.0 released as a free Firefox plugin..
Version 1.0 of the Lektora plugin for Firefox has been released, and contrary to their prior statements, the plugin is now free. Well, there are ads inserted into the ‘newspaper’, albeit only a couple per page on average. For a small fee, you can register the plugin and have the ads removed; very similar to Opera’s model…
FYI, I kept getting an installation warning, that said I had to have Firefox 1.0 installed for it to work; well, of course I had just upgraded to FF 1.0.2 prior to trying Lektora, so apparently there are some version detection issues. Just click OK and install, it should work fine.
Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.2 Released
Mozilla has released versions 1.0.2 of Firefox and Thunderbird; mainly just some performance and security enhancements, but even with little fanfare, you should always keep up-to-date. They can both be dowloaded here.
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