Entries tagged with 'Firefox'
Firefox 3 For OpenSolaris
18Jun08Got more news on Firefox 3 for OpenSolaris. Contributed builds are indeed available, but they don’t count towards the “Download Day” record.
It’s Firefox 3 Download Day
I hope you haven’t forgotten: Today is Firefox 3 download day. Head on over and download Firefox 3 for your platform and be a part of history. Help set the new world record for the most downloads in one day.
As of 10am US PDT (18:00 GMT/UTC) you can grab your downloads from GetFirefox.com, [...]
Firebug for Firefox 3
Firebug, or the lack there of, WAS the only thing stopping me from using Firefox 3 on a more permanent basis, especially now it’s much faster and integrates better on the Mac and given that Safari seems to be quite selective at what it caches. But not anymore.
With Firebug being such a great tool, I [...]
Links of interest for 21 Mar 2008 - 25 Mar 2008:
Paper Enigma Machine - What a brilliant idea, and a great teaching tool too.
Sun turns to lasers to speed up computer chips - Now this would be brilliant if Sun research proves to be a success. Sun's continually proving it is light years (excuse [...]
Links of interest for 18 Oct 2007 - 7 Nov 2007:
System Profiling 101 : Getting started using sys_diag v.7.04 - A very useful performance gathering script that used Dtrace, amongst other tools to gather performance information
Sun sues NetApp, California style - Well, if the previous case wasn’t enough to let NetApp know Sun are serious, [...]
Links of interest for 28 Sep 2007 - 13 Oct 2007:
‘Hybrid’ HDD Technology To Allow Data Access Without Booting - Nice to see the PC market is finally catching up with Apple. Apple computers have been able to do this for years.
Firefox Is Going Mobile - I can’t help but feel this is a [...]
Links of interest for 19 July 2007 - 2 August 2007:
OS X is Now Officially UNIX - Now you can legitimately call OS X “UNIX with a pretty face”. OS X has been certified to UNIX03 standards, like Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.
Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon - Dvorak believes we’re in for another pop. Maybe, maybe [...]
Yahoo’s YSlow Plugin
First, some clarification. YSlow is a pluggin for Firebug, not Firefox. It’s installed as a Firefox pluggin, but it actually enhances Firebug. Accordingly it requires Firebug to be installed.
YSlow adds a new YSlow tab to Firebug and in this tab it rates your page on the scale A to F, based on [...]
Links of interest for 9 July 2007 - 18 July 2007:
Ethernet Autonegotiation Best Practices (Blueprint) - I wish more network admins would read this guide. There is no need to force interfaces. Doing so only opens you up for more work and more problems. With auto-neg enabled, EVERYTHING should work out the box.
The Solaris [...]
Links of interest for 9 April 2007 - 13 April 2007:
Google Summer of Code - Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been announced! They’ve accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of nearly 6,200 applications.
Sun Acquires Java-based Mobile Phone OS - Oooh, maybe Sun will be jumping on the iPhone clone [...]




