Posts Tagged 'browser'

Firefox 3.0 Beta4 is amazing

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Published on Wednesday, 02 April 2008 00:00

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I am running with Firefox 3.0 beta 4 since it is available (so since 2 weeks) and the progress made concerning memory management are so huge that you cannot start using it NOW, especially if you are always keeping Firefox open for hours or days. I am now able to say that Firefox is on par with my other favorite browser Opera 9.5, speed and rendering time are very close. I still prefer Opera through as I always keep 25 tabs open.

It is time now for me to test the Beta 5!

Firefox 3 Beta 5 is available in 45 languages as a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed. You can download it HERE

Why You should not use Firefox 3.0 Beta?

• If you can not live without your favorite extension, note that Google toolbar is not compatible, but web developer is.
• You can not start the old Firefox 2.x.x and the new Firefox 3.x at the same time, bookmark is shared

For all developer out there reading my blog, I recommend You to read what the Firefox team has done to track down all memory leaks and reduce memory usage, this article is worth reading!

Download Firefox Beta5 NOW:

try Google Chrome!

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Published on Friday, 05 September 2008 00:00

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Google Chrome is the latest answer from Google to the market of browser. I plan to use it at the moment for its privacy feature (you should be able to browse without leaving any cookie or trace) fro my e-banking. After 2 days of usage, I still feel not ready to give away my other browser: Firefox (at work) targeted for development: Firebug, web developer, tamper data, fast dial, http fox, fire gesture Opera (at home) as I always keep 25 windows open and refresh them when needed all together! I like Google chrome, as it work perfectly and always give the best search result. I will switch if any engine is able to deliver better results, but since 9 years, I am still waiting... http://www.google.com/chrome

 

How to insert a java applet in a web page

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Published on Monday, 08 June 2009 00:00

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I did learn a lot today while trying to validating my new sub domain: http://websitesasgraphs.waltercedric.com/ I found a huge number of examples using the tag <applet> which has been deprecated and create errors and warning in W3C validation engine. But no example using the  the new HTML <object> tag.  Hence I decide to publish this small post.

The following page are now XHTM 1.0

• display.php (validation Link) XHTML 1.0 Strict
• menu.html (validation link) XHTML 1.0 Transitional

While this one is

• index.html (validation link) HTML 4.01 Frameset

Here is the code to insert a java applet into an XHTML 1.0 Strict web page

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Firefox 3.5 available for general consumption

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Published on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 00:00

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see the what's new page here and Mike Beltzner giving a video tour of all the newest awesomeness.

All my plug-ins are still working after the update to the latest version, my homepage is loading faster (as fast as in Google chrome)

After the update you’ll be redirected to this page http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/whatsnew/ where you’ll be able to test a video embedded in HTML 5.

Firefox 6.0 available

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Published on Wednesday, 17 August 2011 08:08

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Made to make the Web a better place, a new look, super speed, even more awesomeness

Download Firefox 6.0 for Linux, Windows or Mac.

Download for ANDROID

• Get Firefox for Android Free from the Android Market
• Release Notes
• List of Supported Devices »

Running Selenium Grid and a set of Remote control as NT services

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Category: Continuous Integration

Published on Wednesday, 02 June 2010 22:42

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Selenium has various projects that can be combined with each other to create a robust testing environment.

• Selenium IDE: a Firefox add-on to record and playback tests in Firefox.
• Selenium Remote Control: a client/server system to control web browsers locally or on other computers, using almost any programming language and testing framework.
• Selenium Grid: transparently distribute your tests on multiple machines so that you can run your tests in parallel, cutting down the time required for running in-browser test suites. In-browser tests are inherently slow, but since commodity hardware is insanely cheap nowadays there is no excuse for not running all these tests in parallel on multiple machines and dramatically speeding up your feedback cycle. .
• Selenium Core: JavaScript-based testing system.

Also there are Selenium projects specifically for Rails, Ruby & Eclipse!

Today I will show you how to make run some components of Selenium as Windows Services. I am using a Selenium HUB and 4 Selenium RC running all on the same server (while not recommended for performance reasons, it is the easiest setup)

In this small how to I provide you at the end of the article a ready to use Selenium Grid 0.7 zip file

Read more: Running Selenium Grid and a set of Remote control as NT services

Speed up your web pages with YSlow

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Category: Performances

Published on Friday, 27 July 2007 21:35

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YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you:

• Performance report card
• HTTP/HTML summary
• List of components in the page
• Tools including JSLint

Download HERE
Visit also the homepage of the team behind this tool: Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team

You should not take too much time to guess that I am currently optimizing my homepage :-)
Be careful, running this tool more than 5 times make my Firefox crash ;-)

Some statistics:

• forums.waltercedric.com Performance Grade: B (87), still working on it
• www.waltercedric.com Performance Grade: B (83) was F before, still working on it
• gallery.waltercedric.com Performance Grade: D (66), still working on it

Some useful links

• ShrinkSafe is a JavaScript "compression" system. It can typically reduce the size of your scripts by a third or more, depending on your programming style.
• mod_expires apache 2.0 modules documentation in order to reduce bandwidth
• mod_deflate and mod_expires small howto
• compressing javascript or how to compress javascript with htaccess, useful if you can't touch the apache configuration.

Be careful! a lot of host get pretty low metering (just test your favorite internet site), but are still very fast -> this tools do not tell You their infrastructure: memcache server, multiple db server, multiple file server for static content and so on.

Get your Firefox certificate

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Published on Thursday, 19 June 2008 00:00

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Thanks to the support of the always amazing Mozilla community, we got more than
8 million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours. That’s more Firefox downloads than we’ve ever
had in a single day -- an impressive feat indeed!

by going there: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/certificate_form

And see where it has been downloaded the most here http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

It is always time to give Firefox a try by downloading it ;-)

New orientation device API for Firefox 3.6 look promising

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Published on Monday, 19 October 2009 00:00

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Especially if you would like to develop a web OS tablet a la Palm PRE WebOS, or game based on environment. See here a Mario Kart game based on this new orientation API. Unfortunately only some modern Mac book and Lenovo ThinkPad have the sensor..

Original post at http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/10/orientation-for-firefox/

Documentation Device orientation documentation

Firefox 2.0 AVAILABLE

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Published on Wednesday, 25 October 2006 07:00

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The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better. Download Firefox - Free 2.0 for Windows, English (5.6MB) System Requirements - Release Notes - Other Systems & Languages