Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts

Saturday, 29 August 2009

How to localize Firefox 3.5.4pre (or latest)

You added Mozilla Firefox repositories to Synaptics and you're getting only the English version of the browser?
Searching for other stuff, I reached this place...

Get your xpi file and your Firefox will be localized!

Tuesday, 21 July 2009

Firefox 3.5.1 still exposing bugs

Firefox 3.5.1 represents a step towards a faster browser.
Several benchmarks show Safari 4, Opera 10 and Chrome as the fastest browsers on the market - I heard "Webkit rules" - and they only seem to lack in the plug-ins feature.
I'm not taking into account IE X.x because... I think it already exists only because is bundled into the most common OS in the world. And there's no reason to use it.

Anyway... After the first exploit (more here) soon patched by Mozilla team, we got a bug in JavaScript engine, not well managed in 3.5.1.
The issue is well described here and this time it is not useful for executing code (at the moment), but "only" for a DoS.
Possible workaround? Disable JavaScript, No-Script plug-in or switch to the older JavaScript engine from about:config, disabling javascript.options.jit.content. Choosing the 3rd option, there will be a drop in the overall performances of Firefox.

Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Google Chrome browser SHORT review

Surfing the web by using GBrowser...
Fast, indeed. Uses Webkit, so webpages are displayed correctly... More or less.
Used memory is very low. That could be a great advantage on not very fast machines.
It is a BETA: it is not possible to manage bookmarks... No plug-ins. No extensions.
I think Google released this browser with the aim of provide a fast browser for netbooks and implement some optimization (and integration) with Google Apps (Google Gears).
It cannot replace Mozilla Firefox, now.

Official Google Blog: Google Chrome now live