Tag Archives: firefox

How Farmville caused Firefox 3.6.6

So I noticed that Firefox updated itself again today, only a few days after it did last time.  Why the short time-lapse between Firefox 3.6.4 and 3.6.6? Just one bug: 574905. The Farmville Bug No joke, Firefox pushed an update on a single bug. Last release they introduced this great feature that times out Flash

Broken Alt-Tab and Web Applications

One thing that has recently become a problem for me is the loss of usefulness of Alt-Tab. For those of you who don’t know, Alt-Tab in the Windows world and beyond is the shortcut to quickly switch your active application. But what happens when I can’t switch to my active applications, because they’re buried in my web browser? This effect will become more pronounced as more and more applications that we use daily sneak into the web browser – unless we launch everything from Silverlight or Gears shortcuts on the desktop. That is not the case, since I’m much more likely to get to Google Calendar by clicking an Add this GCal link, than I am to launch it from my desktop.

Techno-update: Feedly, Twt.fm, and Super-Cache

Newsfeeds were all the rage a few years ago when the news agencies and blog platforms started syndicating content this way.  For the most part any blog, newspaper, TV station, or anyone who needs to syndicate a stream of information (articles, posts, comments, scores, etc.) has done so using RSS or Atom.  This is great,

Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner on the chaos and rewards of open source

On March 4th TorCHI hosted Mike Beltzner (blog) who is the Director of Development at Mozilla, though he prefers to call himself the “phenomenologist.”  His talk focused on how Mozilla has harnessed the power of the open source community to build Firefox: managing the chaos of open source and have good ideas rise to the

Flickr Search Tagging – First Alpha Release

Introducing Flickr Search Tagging! It’s a little utility that enables a couple of things: Let’s you to propose tags for images that don’t belong to you on Flickr. Contributing tags if you want to help describe the image is often not possible, unless: you’re the owner, you’re a contact of the owner, or the person