Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
My ex-colleague Jan Odvarko writes about his fancy replacement for Firebug's system console.
Atul Varma on why Firefox 3 is awesome (really awesome).
A newsletter for Firefox extension developers called about:addons.
The first public release of Moonlight, a Silverlight port for Linux. Ours is not the place to question why.
And if you feel ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Opera Mini 4.1, with a number of bug fixes and tweaks, has been released.
TechCrunch with an article on Mozilla's "stealth data project", which aims to collect statistics on web usage from Firefox's 170 million strong user base. Mozilla CEO John Lilly provides some clarification.
Mozilla joins the LiMo Foundation, which develops ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
WebKit announces a new mailing list for reporting security vulnerabilities.
Deb Richardson elucidates the new Firefox site identification button. Besides the practical merit of this feature, it is a fascinating study in communicating potentially confusing information to end users.
Dion Almaer with a hack to duplicate the way Firefox lets you jump ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Microsoft ships XP Service Pack 3 with continued support for Internet Explorer 6.
Firefox wins favorite browser in the LinuxJournal Readers' Choice Awards with 86% of votes cast.
John Resig implements a complete HTML parser entirely in JavaScript. Multiple interfaces are provided including SAX and a DOM builder. Amazing.
Flock wins a Webby ...
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