Browsers
Firefox 2.0 drops off the radar
We keep an active check on the browsers that our visitors use, mainly for interest, but today is the first day that there have been no visitors at all using Firefox 2.0.
We guess that in general if you’ve chosen Firefox, you keep up to date (assuming all your favorite add-ins work in the new version).
We [...]
Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18
Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18 address three critical flaws in the browsers’ Gecko rendering engines, the HTML parsers, and their implementations of web worker, an enhanced scripting functionality that lets
site developers shift JavaScript computations to a background thread to reduce the performance hit on Firefox’s user interface. The fixes are already in the 3.6 release.
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Firefox 3.6 beta 5
Beta 5 of Firefox 3.6 has now been released.
Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on [...]
Firefox 3.0.16
Firefox 3.0, has been updated with the release of version 3.0.16. The release contained seven patches, two of them marked critical. The browser will also will loose security support next month.
Firefox 3.5.6
Mozilla has patched 10 bugs in Firefox, half of them critical, in the browser’s rendering and JavaScript engines, media and video libraries, and other components.
Maxthon 2.0
We’ve been checking our website visitor logs again and noticed that the Maxthon browser appears a lot.
According to Wikipedia:
Maxthon (pronounced /ˈmækstən/ and formerly known as MyIE2) is a China-based freeware (more specifically donateware) web browser for Windows. From its early MyIE2 roots, Maxthon has developed a growing user base, especially in China, and in 2006 [...]
Camino 2.0.1
Camino 2.0.1 is a security and stability update for Camino 2.0.
All users are urged to upgrade.
Using Selenium IDE with Firefox 3.6
The current version of Selenium IDE (1.0.2) is ‘incompatible’ with Firefox 3.6 betas, as shown below.
There is a workaround or trick that you can use to get round this.
Warning!
It involves editing the configuration and settings of your Firefox browser, so be careful – you have been warned.
Step 1
In the address bar of Firefox, enter about:config
You [...]
Thumbnails of screenshots added to Cloud Testing RSS feed
Cloud testing has improved it’s RSS results feed to add thumbnails of the pages tested, along with more detail of the result.
Users can view the results in the RSS reader of their choice, shown below are the same feed in Thunderbird 3 (RC2), Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 4.0.4. Unfortunately Google Chrome does not yet [...]
K-Meleon Browser
K-Meleon is a fast and customizable web browser that can be used instead of Internet Explorer on Windows. Powered by the same Gecko engine as the Firefox and Mozilla browsers, K-Meleon provides users with a secure browsing experience.
The K-Meleon project page is on SourceForge at sourceforge.net/projects/kmeleon/.
