Javascript nodeValue Implementaion: IE Versus Firefox / Opera

September 2nd, 2007 In Linux, unlike Windows, multiple users can simultaneously connect to the same machine and get a full GUI using windows managers like VNC. However when one of the account has Firefox opened, others are prevented from bringing up firefox which can be very much irritating.

April 5th, 2006 An interesting chart comparing available jobs for these four popular languages - java, php, python and ruby. All of them are extensively used for web application development.

December 24th, 2008 Though in this on going battle of Firefox and Google Chrome, Opera has never lost its own position. Probably the most under-rated (less discussed to be accurate) browsers of our times, Opera has many a features which even Firefox don't.

May 14th, 2006 Strangely you cannot set browser window status bar using javascript (by setting window.status) in Firefox. There are two simple ways you can enable it.

June 24th, 2008 My most favorite Firefox 3 feature is the automatically generated Most Visited folder on Bookmarks tab. It allows me to quickly browse my important work related websites.

December 16th, 2005 Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow.

February 7th, 2007 As a javascript developer using onload often you will find that other script authors too love to use onload. Unfortunately onload accepts a function name and your reassigning will prevent others from using onload.

July 15th, 2007 Firefox has the annoying habit of popping up an error message after 5 seconds (10 seconds for Firefox 2.x) when running Javascript code. This causes lots of irritation because a) some script genuinely need more than the default time, b) the error message pops up repeatedly after every 5-10 seconds thereby severely ruining your browsing experience and c) the strangely worded warning where Cancel is what allows you to continue responds very sluggishly and looks like hanging even on my Core 2 Duo machine.

January 15th, 2005 In my microcosm of viewers (of this blog site) Firefox is rapidly gaining in popularity and accounts for ~24% of the market share. Mozilla & Netscape accounts for merely 6%.

August 26th, 2008 Every one in my company knows about pkill, an obscure Linux command because we use Firefox (we are 100% Linux based) as the default browser. What is the relation, you ask? The answer is simple.

June 17th, 2009 Now if there's an advanced feature in any web browser, no sooner that turns into Firefox extension. Imitating Opera's Speed Dial, Firefox got the Speed dial extension.

November 10th, 2006 You can easily create your own search engines and even assign keywords to them in a minute or so. This mini-tutorial will show you how you can add any WordPress blogs search as one of your search engines.

December 1st, 2008 If you have read our article battle of browsers, I guess you know by now that Google Chrome is fast coming up to be in the front line of popularity amongst broswers. They have taken another step towards achieving it by making Google Chrome customizable.

November 26th, 2008 While Matt used it for his blog to get a stat of the browsers from which people are visiting his blog, we thought of experimenting with ours too. What came out is quite interesting.

March 15th, 2009 Firefox 3 onwards has a nice feature which warns you of sites which are suspected of forgery or attacks (through trojans, malware etc.). Unfortunately the feature is too intrusive and warns you repeatedly, nags you to death is a better phrase to describe it, even when you have confirmed that the site is genuine.