Posts tagged with: firefox

Links of interest for 19 July 2007 - 2 August 2007:  Continue reading ►

First, some clarification. YSlow is a pluggin for Firebug, not Firefox. It's installed as a Firefox pluggin, but it actually enhances Firebug. Accordingly it requires Firebug to be installed.YSlow adds a new YSlow tab to Firebug and in this tab it rates your page on the scale A to F, based on compliance with Yahoo's performance rules and provides a link to each rule, and lists each component it believes could be improved. Each of these "rules" have their own weighting too.This all sounds good, so I thought I'd put it to the test against my sites to see what it had to offer, and see what changes I could make to improve the overall impression of the performance of my sites.  Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 July 2007 - 18 July 2007:  Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 April 2007 - 13 April 2007:  Continue reading ►

Did you know that very few browsers implement the :after CSS property for the "img" HTML tag?Nope, neither did I until I wanted to use it.I'm in the process of redesigning my personal site, and one of the things I wanted to do was use CSS to place the Flickr logo after any image I include in a post that is stored on Flick. I do this already with a bit of HTML & CSS, but I need to remember to add the snippet of code everytime I include a Flickr image. By implementing it in CSS, all I would have to do is ensure I use the correct class name and it would appear automatically.  Continue reading ►

Some people have far too much time... some guy has decided, just for the hell of it, to install 200 Firefox extensions (Screenshot), all at once, to see what would happen. I'm impressed Firefox managed to actually start, however I doubt it would have stayed up very long.

Chapin Information Services (CIS) have discovered quite a major flaw in the way Firefox's Password Manager automatically populates username and password fields on a web form.Whilst this is a major time saver, it does however allow phishers to gather usernames and passwords without you actually knowing it, especially on weblogs and forums which allow posters to input HTML. Essentially, they would just create a hidden form that Firefox would automatically populate with your username and password for that site and then submit it to the phisher's server when you click a link or hit enter. This doesn't use cross site scripting (XSS) methods either as it's essentially gathering passwords for the site you're actually visiting (hence most phishing detectors won't pick this up).  Continue reading ►

Google has just released a new Firefox extension that, as they quote,  Continue reading ►