http://www.cbulock.com/cat/browsers.html Web broswer related posts, IE, Firefox, Opera and more. http://www.cbulock.com/cameron.jpg http://www.cbulock.com/cat/browsers.html 87 95 Copyright 2003-2008 en-us cbulock@cbulock.com 2007-10-20T02:17:40-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2007/10/firefox_is_outta_control.html I used to think Firefox used too much memory. I posted about this before. I got home from the bar tonight, and this was just out of control. WTF is it using 3GB of memory for? I only had 25 tabs open. Since this software is open source, you'd think there would be someone checking for memory leaks. I think the whole extension system needs an overhaul cause even Internet Explorer ain't this bad. When Internet Explorer is beating you with stability issues, you should be ashamed. 550@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2007-10-20T02:17:40-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2006/11/firefox_2_hacks.html I've just had the pleasure of installing Firefox 2 for the fourth time. Nothing wrong with the program, this was just the fourth computer I've had to set it up on. Each time, I end up going through and changing some config settings to make the program work more like I want it to. Things such as turning off the tab scrolling, removing the tabs list dropdown, putting the close button to the right like FF1.5. 488@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2006-11-21T14:21:08-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2006/04/firefox_ram_issues_some_explaination.html I was just mentioning my Firefox memory trouble, and it looks like there is a nice list of extensions with known leaks. Reducing Your Memory Usage In Firefox. 430@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2006-04-05T00:24:56-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2006/04/firefox_ram_hog.html I love Firefox, easily the program I use most on the computer. I probably spend 12-15 hours a day using it. But, it really needs to chill the fuck out on it's RAM usage. I mean, what is it doing.... 428@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2006-04-04T00:56:36-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2006/03/firefox_extensions_revisted.html A while back I went through and listed all the extensions I was running at that time. At one point, I was up to over 60 extensions running in Firefox. I just love these things. Since I got a new computer a couple months ago, I re-evaluated which ones I was actually using, and I thought it was time to once again list the ones I am now using. These are all things that I believe add useful features to Firefox. 422@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2006-03-12T23:40:41-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2006/02/now_with_internet_explorer_7_search_support.html I had previously posted about the Mozilla search plugin I created for this site. That will work in any Mozilla based browser such as Netscape or Firefox. Now, if you check the plugin page, I also have a search plugin that works in the upcoming Internet Explorer 7. I didn't have to actually 'create' this as Microsoft actually did something really smart and their search box supports OpenSearch. As this site is already has OpenSearch 1.1 setup, I just have to create a link for IE to see the OpenSearch description document. For more info on how to point IE to this, check out the IE7 search provider directory. 408@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2006-02-02T18:12:34-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2005/10/ie7_compatible.html One good thing about the redesign of this site that I released back in June, I used IE conditional comments to separate the IE CSS hacks needed to render the site properly. That seemed like a good idea then, and now the IE team working on IE7 is saying that this is the way these hacks need to be done. This is because IE7 will fix most of these, so many of the old hacking techniques will actually break sites in IE7. 352@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2005-10-13T17:21:12-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2005/08/free_opera.html I think this is for today only, but in celebration of their 10-year anniversary, you can get a free copy of Opera. If you haven't already registered this program, I would take advantage of this. 343@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2005-08-30T13:00:22-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2005/08/joe_will_find_any_reason_not_to_like_opera.html Personally, if I didn't like Opera as much as Joe Clark does, I just simply wouldn't use it and move on. Or at least learn how to customize to the way I wanted. 336@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2005-08-10T10:52:00-05:00 http://www.cbulock.com/2005/05/firefox_stepping_up_the_speed.html Back and Forward Now Blazingly Fast Great news for anyone using Firefox. This caching feature being added to Firefox will make for a HUGE improvement in speed. Anyone who has used Opera will know what this is like as Opera has had this for as long as I know of. Instead of rerendering the page when using back and forward buttons, the page wil instantly display. Is just as fast as changing from tab to tab. I am excited about this as being a Opera user for a while, this was one of those minor things that always bug me about Firefox. If it wasn't for having to test webpage designs in Opera, I may no longer have a reason for having it installed anymore. 318@http://www.cbulock.com/ 2005-05-05T23:59:23-05:00