Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Activity tagged “firefox”

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A Tour Of A “Pay to Download Firefox” Site

This is why your open source project needs to defend its trademark.

(firefox, scams, trademark, warstories)

WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string

And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, […] and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.”

(chrome, firefox, fun, history, mozilla, opera, safari, software, string, user-agent)

Bug 340318 – whenever you go to gmail.com the redirects on gmail makes FireFox freeze then crash [@ nsXBLService::GetBinding] [@ js_HashString]

Watch as the reporter goes batshitinsane and starts flaming the deveopers trying to help him. This is the wortst part of woking on Open Source: dealing with assholes like this.

(batshitinsane, bug, firefox, opensource)

XPath Checker :: Firefox Add-ons

A little XPath window for Firefox. Slick.

(firefox, plugin, xpath)

About:config entries - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

Complete guide to about:config. This is the best that I've found.

(config, firefox, mozilla, reference)

mozdev.org - geckotip: index

Essential if you're using Firefox on a tablet

(extensions, firefox, tabletpc)

Mozilla Update :: Extensions — More Info:FireBug - All Releases

FireBug is a new tool that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter.

(ajax, debugger, extension, firefox, javascript, webdev)

Keyboard Feature: Find As You Type

All the gory details about how type ahead find works (and the appropriate settings, as well)

(firefox)

Proper tabindex in OSX Firefox

Set accessibility.tabfocus to 7 to make Firefox work the way it should

(firefox)

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