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Windows 7 gives browser choice in Europe

Nov 27

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Browsers | No Comments

I never thought that Microsoft would do this. Recently while browsing over the Internet I came across a story that Microsoft is offering browser choice in Europe..! Yes, all those competitors of Internet Explorer. :)

Microsoft offers browser choice to users in Europe

Microsoft offers browser choice to users in Europe

It's good that 10 other browsers except IE and Firefox are getting exposure as well. To be honest I haven't heard of 3 names from this list and they are SRWare IRON, Lunascape and FlashPeak.

So willingly or unwillingly Microsoft is giving the open choice to users...:)

Similar to what Google Chrome does now a days, asks users for making a choice from Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the default search engine..!

Google Chrome - asking user choice of search engine after installation

Google Chrome - asking user choice of search engine after installation

Anyway as long as browsers and their browsers are concerned users will usually stick to one once they are happy with it with basics (the normal users which are less technical). While developers and specially web-developers need to deal with various breed of them. I consider desktop-applications and their developers little lucky in this area. (Though the fact is  - for many software vendors it's difficult to make and test their software even in various flavors of Windows only.)

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Flock – The Social Networking browser says Hi to Chrome, bye to Firefox

Nov 4

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Browsers | No Comments

Firefox vs Chrome? Yes or No..!

Firefox vs Chrome? Yes or No..!

Friends, the War of browsers has always been very exciting. I have been using Flock at my home PC for quite sometime now (probably since version 0.8 or earlier while it was using Mozilla Firefox at it's core..!).

Yes, the NEWS is Flock - The Social Networking Browser showed it's love towards Chrome by selecting Google's Chromium project as base to build their next-generation browsing experience. Yes, Flock said bye to Mozilla Firefox.

Using Chromium as a base has given a decent boost to Flock and the sidebar gives even better social networking experience with integration with services like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube and I am sure more and more services will be added as new Flock gets mature.

You and Flocks Win..!

You as a User win with Flock :)

To me the old Firefox based Flock had better User Interface or theme, it was a sparkling theme with silver and light blue shades (default one). But now it has obviously decent theme and better and faster performance, which is what finally matters. So here we as users win along with Flock, those who choose to flock on social web with Flock. If you want to see the glimpse of old Mozilla-core based Flock see my previous post back in July 2009 introducing some exciting features of Flock - The Social Browser.

Here is the quoted paragraph from the Clayton Stark's blog post on official Flock Beta Blog about why Chromium was inevitable as a platform of choice for The Social Networking Browser. Read the rest of this entry »

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Firefox 3.7 alpha turns Firefox 4.0 pre beta

Jul 5

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Firefox | 2 Comments

Firefox 4 is coming..!

Firefox 4

Firefox 4: Preview

Firefox 3.7 pre-alpha development version has taken a new root and it has been reprojected as Firefox 4.0 pre-beta. Firefox 4 pre-beta Download is available at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ once Firefox 4.0 Beta is ready should be able to download it from here.

Firefox 4 features and talk abouts:

  • Complete Multi-process architecture to take advantage of multi-core processors.
  • New add-on framework Jetpack instead of current XUL, which will make addon/plugin developers life easy along with New add-on manager.
  • New JägerMonkey JavaScript Engine
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Mozilla released Firefox 3.6 – What’s new?

Jan 22

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Firefox | No Comments

Today Mozilla has announced Firefox 3.6 availability for public use. It's built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform.

Firefox 3.6 with Personas

Firefox 3.6 with Personas

I love to update my computer with every new release Firefox comes up with and this time it has lovely Personas. Previewing a theme is so easy with it..! Just like Google Chrome and it's fast as well.

I liked the fact that almost all majorly used Firefox extensions were working with this update except "Microsoft .NET Framework Assistance" which is probably not compatible since Firefox 3.5.6 version.

What's new in Firefox 3.6? (as per release notes from Mozilla)

Firefox 3.6  is built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development since early 2009 and contains many improvements for web developers, add-on developers, and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Maemo.

New & Notable Firefox 3.6 features include: Read the rest of this entry »

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Firefox 3.5 and CSS effects change we will see

Aug 16

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Firefox | 6 Comments

Firefox 3.5 claims to be 2 times faster than it's 3.x version which is a great news as now every browser is in the race to get fastest Javascript execution engine in it's core.

So I got my Firefox 3.x alert claiming that newer and better version 3.5 is available and it's a recommended upgrade. Just now before couple of hours I have updated to Firefox 3.5 using it's auto-updater feature and when it restored previously open tabs and I noticed first change in this blogs title fonts.

Here, in below image you can see blog post title which has taken "Lucida Grande" as Font to render and it was same for rest of the browsers as well. Because Internet Explorer, Safari and Chrome all display it in the same manner.

Blog Title in FireFox-3.x with Font-Family: "Union","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Arial,Helvetica

Blog Title in FireFox-3.x with Font-Family: "Union","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode",Arial,Helvetica

Well now let's see what Firefox 3.5 has to offer with similar Font-Family attribute?

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Don’t just surf, keep Flocking with Flock over the Web

Jul 19

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Browsers | No Comments

Flock - Social Web Browser

Flock - Social Web Browser

Flock is a Social Web Browser. Currently Flock 2.5 is available for download as latest version of it. Under the hood it uses Mozilla core and Flock developer team has build-up a great Social Web Browser on top of it.

When we say social it has default integration with lots of Web 2.0 services and social websites, to name a few twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and Digg are some of them as there are lot of many. Other great feature which will catch the eye of blogger is that you can integrate it with many of online blogs hosting including your own WordPress blog. Read the rest of this entry »

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This download has been blocked by your security zone policy

Oct 25

Posted by Dharmavirsinh Jhala in Browsers, Firefox | 4 Comments

I would like to post one wired and interesting issue I faced before few days.

Recently I was deploying one of my project on client end. Basically it was a Web Application but unlike other setups they were going to use that by terminal access. Meaning that all Users of the Portal will be having unique login into their(client's) Windows Network Domain and users will be logging into the Portal by logging into the Server machine first with given Windows domain credentials and then to the Portal.

This setup seems to be easy and no worry as whole portal will be accessed via LOCALHOST only..! Looks odd for any web-application though but that was the requirement for the client (keeping their security concerns in mind).

I have been given Administrative User to login to the server machine and setup everything. I did setup and did my post implementation testing on the machine with my user. Everything seems to be working as expected and I gave green flag to my superior.

Later on I have been buzzed with 2 issues from the Client.

  1. Portal is not working in Internet Explorer at all.
  2. Users are not able to download files from my Portal.

I asked for login details they used for testing and which they were actually going to give to their Users.

Problems & their Solutions: Read the rest of this entry »

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