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In-depth Comparison of Web Browsers at MaximumPC
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- Wed 11 Mar 2009 at 22:19
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There are a lot of web browsers on the market today, with a lot of marketing text and hidden agendas clouding any real evaluation of each browser. Even at Lowter, we heavily lean towards Opera. All of the graphs and speed tests are the worst, with each data set showing almost entirely different results, always skewed towards a particular browser. However, I found a great article on Maximum PC that gives a pretty detailed and fair review of the major browsers on the market. It compares the browsers on the rendering engine, the user interfa…
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Do We Really Need Proprietary CSS Properties?
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- Tue 17 Feb 2009 at 20:55
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Recently, I was working on a project that utilised Webkit's CSS transforms to create a cool effect as a little extra to anyone viewing the page in Safari. Firefox 3.1 will also introduce CSS transforms to Firefox. However, Webkit uses the -webkit-transform property and Firefox uses the -moz-transform property. The question I ask is: what is wrong with just transform? Do we really need proprietary CSS properties? Isn't that entirely counterintuitive to web standards? Basically, the answer boils down to that, yes, proprietary CSS properti…
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What Kind of Browser User are You?
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- Tue 7 Oct 2008 at 15:05
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The Choose Opera blog posted a funny little chart about typical web browser users of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Apple Safari. It is funny, especially the Apple Safari row, but the chart also has a little accuracy in my opinion. IE users are generally either not informed or stubborn about switching to a better browser. Opera users tend to be a little elitist, but only because they're using the better browser (I do use Opera myself). Power users of Apple Safari are almost certainly using it for the "Private Browsing" feature, …
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Firefox 3
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- Sat 21 Jun 2008 at 10:33
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Matt just recently posted a blog entry about Opera 9.5, so I figured I would post an entry about the also newly released Firefox 3. Be forewarned, I am a hardcore Opera user, so I am not super familiar with Firefox. However, on a whole, I can say that Firefox 3 seems like a step in the right direction and it improves on a number of issues that plagued Firefox 2. The general changes include: New theme Implementation of Gecko 1.9 Page zooming New bookmark manager New download manager Improved password manager New address bar Numero…
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Firefox Fixing Memory Problems
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- Sat 22 Sep 2007 at 16:04
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Mozilla's development community is finally attending to one of the largest, if not the largest, technical problem with the Mozilla Firefox web browser: memory. Over the years, each version of Firefox has used more memory and has leaked more memory due to poor programming. Users find that Firefox runs like molasses if left running overnight or if the user is browsing with a large number of tabs. Detailed on this blog, the memory fixes should be present in Firefox 3.…
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Styling <legend> Tags
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- Fri 22 Dec 2006 at 22:11
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Recently, when coding Lowter's new layout, I ran into an issue trying to use absolute positioning on a <legend> tag. I was attempting to apply these particular styles to it: legend { left: -2000px; position: absolute; width: 990px; } I wanted to hide the <legend> tag from visitors on a certain form. Using display: none would not have sufficed because then screen-readers would have ignored the form instructions I wanted them to read aloud. The stylings worked fine in Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer. The brow…
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Firefox Plans To Mass Market
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- Sat 26 Nov 2005 at 17:15
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For the release of Firefox 1.5, the Mozilla organization is planning a large-scale marketing plan to promote the usage of the open source web browser, Firefox. According to Christopher Beard, the vice-president of products at Mozilla, the mass marketing plans will involve the vast Firefox community, as did Mozilla's original New York Times marketing venture. Their new marketing plan will have users posting videos of why they like Firefox. Mozilla is also planning to turn Mozilla.com into a consumer-orientated website, changing it from its …
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Latest in Browsers
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- Fri 21 Oct 2005 at 20:54
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The browser wars are always continuing, with every web browser spitting out a new feature every time we turn our heads. The latest browser news is Opera Software released Opera 9 Preview 1, Firefox hit 100 million downloads, and Flock was released today. Opera 9 Preview 1 Opera software released a preview version of Opera 9, code name Merlin. The interface mainly remained the same, with the main new item being a bookmark button in the address bar. Accounts are also stored in a different manner. There were a number of rendering impleme…
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Recovery of Microsoft Internet Explorer
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- Mon 15 Aug 2005 at 3:24
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NetApplications (keeping track of stats for an estimate of 40,000 websites) reports that Internet Explorer has somewhat recovered from the never-ending downwards spiral it seemed to be in these last few months. User base was moving away from this browser, which hasn't been updated for years. Mozilla Firefox's market share became as high as nearly 10%, but now IE strikes back and Firefox's market share has decreased to 8.07% compared to 8.71% in June. Internet Explorer went from 86.56% to 87.2%. Safari grew a bit towards 2.13%, but Opera (…
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Browsers on Thumb Drives
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- Sat 11 Jun 2005 at 20:42
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Ever wished that you could take your browser of choice wherever you go? That way you don't have to use Internet Explorer? I've found methods to get both Opera and Firefox on a thumb drive. Both work fine and make a nice way to have a good browser with you at all times. Opera megamanXplosion at Sitepoint.com posted some great instructions on how to get Opera on your thumb drive. It also guides you through setting the cache to go on the current computer and for Opera to be offered to you on the drive's startup menu: Installing Oper…
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Firefox the Ball-Hog
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- Tue 29 Mar 2005 at 6:08
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Most developers think Firefox was the greatest invention for the web. Editor of Lowter, Ethan, thinks different. Here he expresses his thoughts on the media hype of Firefox.
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IE Alternative Web Browsers
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- Sun 30 Jan 2005 at 6:39
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Internet Explorer is the most popular web browser, but here Ethan shows us some alternatives to IE aimed for developers. Discover Mozilla, Firefox, and Opera along with what they have to offer.
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