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On Windows, the Firefox installer (quite considerately) won’t override existing non-beta versions of the browser with a beta version (like the recently released Firefox 3.6 betas). Though it doesn’t explicitly say so, Mac OS X users can have a similar behavior, which by the surprised faces I see when  I tell people this, many people [...]

The release of Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4 a few weeks before it heralded the implementation of a feature that I believe will push web application development into the next age. The feature, called Javascript web workers, will allow web apps to have far more advanced features without the slowdown experienced even with today’s Javascript-heavy [...]

I’m sure most of us have had the problem – search for something with Google, see a search result appear that is exactly what you’re looking for, only to find that when you click through to the page you get told that you must log in to see the content or (gasp!) pay to see [...]

I think I’m somewhat of a rarity in the world of web developers – I actively use and certainly approve of CSS hacks to target and fix certain browsers. Of course, I don’t condone their use unless it is absolutely necessary, and in most cases good, standards compliant CSS should alleviate most issues before they [...]

After a few weeks of talking about it, I took the plundge and bought a new MacBook Pro. This isn’t my first Mac, but I have been using Windows machines only for a while. This means that the house is totally Mac now, with my better half a dedicated Mac user (iMac 20″ currently). It [...]

I have been quite busy with CeBIT, as well as some other projects, these last couple of days, so I have been quite bad with updating the blog. Sorry folks, my bad. Something interesting to note though – I was looking through my feed statistics just then, and by a rather large margin, Google Desktop [...]

Maybe this is old news, but I just realized that I can switch between tabs in Firefox by holding down the middle-click (press on the scroll wheel) and clicking either the left or right mouse button. Genius…

Just a quick note – Google have released a beta (like everything else they release) Firefox version of their toolbar.