It has been going on for a while now, but today I took my first spin with the new Swift that many people already have blogged about for a few weeks. It is still an early Alpha, but basic operability is already built into the browser.
Earlier you have seen a KHTML renderer in Konqueror on Linux and an other version of it called Safari for the Mac users out there. And now it is on it`s way to Windows. Way to go.
The first thing I noticed is the speed. It loads very fast, and the rendering is not too bad either. But all this as expected though. But then again, Firefox was really fast in the beginning when it was a beta too, but after thousands of extra lines of code, it is natural that any application will slow down a bit. It will still be interesting to see where this browser will end up on the various speed tests out there though, when it is finished ported to Windows.
One thing I noticed very fast with the browser (all browser I have on my machine handles this differently though) is that if I scroll fast, it creates some leaping artifacts that I don`t really like too much. But then again. This is an alpha and it might be changed lots of times before we see the final result here. But all in all a thumb up for this very fine project.
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Published: 13.12.2006 by Comments 0
Opera Mini 3 is finaly here:
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Published: 28.11.2006 by
And here it is. The browser that has probably revolutionized the web the most this decade has reached version 3. With lots of new features, and soon even more users , this might soon really kick off.
I have been using it for a long time already, and it has become invaluable to me (only wish I managed to make it work with my Norwegian subscription too). And could say lots of nice things about it. But it is better to head over to Opera.com and try it for your self. There is plenty of tutorials there, and even a emulator of it if you don`t want to use your cell phones credit to test it out.
As a last note, I tested it on my web page too now, and it works, well, not too bad.
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I have been using it for a long time already, and it has become invaluable to me (only wish I managed to make it work with my Norwegian subscription too). And could say lots of nice things about it. But it is better to head over to Opera.com and try it for your self. There is plenty of tutorials there, and even a emulator of it if you don`t want to use your cell phones credit to test it out.
As a last note, I tested it on my web page too now, and it works, well, not too bad.
I should probably do something with it, but it won`t be high on my priority list, witch seems to be the trend for the Opera browser. Sorry about that.
Opera 9 out:
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Published: 20.06.2006 by
So the rumors was true, Opera 9 was released today after two beta have been out for a while. I can imagine it has been a few days of headbanging, nervosity, and maybe some used up Opera Stress balls lately. But now they can breath out after successfully adding support for Bit-Torrent, Widgets, and a lot of other features it is easy to get dependent on.
If you haven`t tested it before, I suggest you do it now when it is finally stable enough for a release. We are talking about probably the smallest, fastest browser out there that still have enough features to make it feel like you want. And don`t forget that this time it passes the Acid 2 test too. Something for example Firefox won`t do with their next release 2.0, and IE won`t even get close yet.
So once again congratulations to the team, you can rest a bit now.
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If you haven`t tested it before, I suggest you do it now when it is finally stable enough for a release. We are talking about probably the smallest, fastest browser out there that still have enough features to make it feel like you want. And don`t forget that this time it passes the Acid 2 test too. Something for example Firefox won`t do with their next release 2.0, and IE won`t even get close yet.
So once again congratulations to the team, you can rest a bit now.
First beta of Flock:
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Published: 14.06.2006 by
After a long journey, the first beta is out of the experimental browser Flock. So much is new, and so much is done, that it is much better to head over to Flock to find out about it all. The official announcement can be a good place to start.
This will also be the first version with a "semi-official" version of localization builds. And Zbigniew Braniecki calls in forces for some extra time on their hands to help with translating. So do you speak any other language then English, and want to help out with this exiting browser, I recommend you to go to his blog and sign up on the mailing list.
Good luck and congratulations on your beta Flockers.
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This will also be the first version with a "semi-official" version of localization builds. And Zbigniew Braniecki calls in forces for some extra time on their hands to help with translating. So do you speak any other language then English, and want to help out with this exiting browser, I recommend you to go to his blog and sign up on the mailing list.
Good luck and congratulations on your beta Flockers.
Auto Search in Firefox:
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Published: 06.06.2006 by
For those who you who are so brave that you have tested the upcoming Firefox 2, you might have seen that they have added a new feature called "Search Discovery". It has already been added to the upcoming IE 7 too, so this more or less proves that if open standards are good enough. They will get through to the big companies too.
After reading a blog entry about it`s appearance in Fx, I decided to add it to my web page too. And here it is. If you are now using one of the latest builds of Fx (2.0 something) you will see that the magnifying glass in the upper right corner is turning red on this web page.
If you now click on this magnifying glass, you can see you have the option to add my web page to the search feature in Fx. If you add it, it will be added just like google and all the other searches you have in your quick search. And you can search my home page whenever you want.
Not that I think many will do that on my web page. But it is more for passing out the word, and make it known, so maybe bigger sites where it is actually useful will add the functionality. There is lots of pages I can see how useful it is. So hope they will pick up on it soon.
If you want to do it on your own web page, you can find easy instructions here , that even I managed to follow after some small directions.
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After reading a blog entry about it`s appearance in Fx, I decided to add it to my web page too. And here it is. If you are now using one of the latest builds of Fx (2.0 something) you will see that the magnifying glass in the upper right corner is turning red on this web page.
If you now click on this magnifying glass, you can see you have the option to add my web page to the search feature in Fx. If you add it, it will be added just like google and all the other searches you have in your quick search. And you can search my home page whenever you want.
Not that I think many will do that on my web page. But it is more for passing out the word, and make it known, so maybe bigger sites where it is actually useful will add the functionality. There is lots of pages I can see how useful it is. So hope they will pick up on it soon.
If you want to do it on your own web page, you can find easy instructions here , that even I managed to follow after some small directions.
Earn money on Firefox:
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Published: 26.04.2006 by
The battle between Firefox and Internet Explorer just reached a new level. In the old days when Netscape started to take their market share, you had to pay for your browser. But Microsoft suddenly changed that business model, and made their IE free.
Now it is totaly changed. Now you can actually earn money on helping your friends and others to make the switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox .
All you need to do is download a script and add it to your homepage. Then everyone visiting your homepage with IE will get a notification telling them that they should try Firefox and why.
So where does the money come from? Well it is actualy google that gives out money to you. Which seems to be even a new way to steal market share from Microsoft, but this time Google is not the one that are winning it. But Mozilla Firefox is. Seems a bit odd to me, but then again, I also read today that Firefox is the first third party product has been featured on google’s main page! Go Firefox!!!
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Now it is totaly changed. Now you can actually earn money on helping your friends and others to make the switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox .
All you need to do is download a script and add it to your homepage. Then everyone visiting your homepage with IE will get a notification telling them that they should try Firefox and why.
So where does the money come from? Well it is actualy google that gives out money to you. Which seems to be even a new way to steal market share from Microsoft, but this time Google is not the one that are winning it. But Mozilla Firefox is. Seems a bit odd to me, but then again, I also read today that Firefox is the first third party product has been featured on google’s main page! Go Firefox!!!
Firefox Flicks:
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Published: 12.04.2006 by
About the same time as my own Firefox breaks all time high , and then went on and died, I noticed that the flicker competition is now open. There has been a 150+ films already sendt in since December, and more is comming ever day. Here is the first taste for you, so have a look and then move over to Firefox flicks to have a look at the rest:
On an other hand, just read over at Zbigniews that the Gecko Reflow branch passed the Acid2 test today. Great news. Will still take untill Firefox 3 in 2007 to see it in action though.
PS: Ironicaly enough, I had to use IE in the end to see the movie.
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On an other hand, just read over at Zbigniews that the Gecko Reflow branch passed the Acid2 test today. Great news. Will still take untill Firefox 3 in 2007 to see it in action though.
PS: Ironicaly enough, I had to use IE in the end to see the movie.
Firefox extension tool:
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Published: 31.03.2006 by
I have for a long time wanted to do this. And now I have done it. In the simplest way possible, but at least done it. Made a small tool to pack up and unpack the extension I have been working on for a while now. It has been a lot of packing and un packing, and finaly it can be done automaticaly with a pack script and an unpack script.
At the moment it only works on Linux machines with ZIP, and Python installed. And I am not going to change that for a while I think, since I am only using Linux to develop the extension. And at the moment some of the names are hardcoded for the files, so right out of the box it will only work for this extension. But it should be easy to change the names like vbf.jar to something that you use, and vbf.xpi to what your extension is called. And if you have any problems using it, then please just give me a wink.
If you just want to have a look at the code, here is the pack script:
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At the moment it only works on Linux machines with ZIP, and Python installed. And I am not going to change that for a while I think, since I am only using Linux to develop the extension. And at the moment some of the names are hardcoded for the files, so right out of the box it will only work for this extension. But it should be easy to change the names like vbf.jar to something that you use, and vbf.xpi to what your extension is called. And if you have any problems using it, then please just give me a wink.
If you just want to have a look at the code, here is the pack script:
Python code:
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import sys
os.chdir("chrome/")
os.system("zip -r vbf.jar *")
os.system("mv vbf.jar ../")
os.system("rm -r *")
os.system("mv ../vbf.jar .")
os.chdir("..")
os.system("zip vbf.xpi -r chrome install.rdf")
os.system("rm ./install.rdf")
os.system("rm -r ./chrome")
And here you have the unpack script.
Python code:
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import sys
os.system("unzip ./vbf.xpi")
os.system("rm ./vbf.xpi")
os.chdir("chrome/")
os.system("unzip vbf.jar")
os.system("rm vbf.jar")
How you use them:
Unpack: Leave the vbf.xpi file in the same folder as the unpack script, run the script and it is unpacked.
Pack: Leave the script in the same folder as the "chrome" folder and the "install.rdf" file, and run it. And it is packed again.
Enjoy. And please give me feedback if you need any help what so ever to use it. And just as a note, from the next version of the vBulleting extension these scripts will be in the vbf.xpi file.
Who do you trust now?:
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Published: 28.03.2006 by
Three days, three security vulnerabilities found in Internet Explorer. It was really not a good week for IE users last week. And then Microsoft started to hint that they might not come out with a fix before mid april. Which will let those who want to exploit this get time to do so.
And so they did , and then again . So what to do now? Start using a new browser? Stop browsing the interenet? Or hope that someone else can help? Well the latter might be the save this time. A security company called eEye have released a patch that will temporary fix the most dangerous vulnerabilitie found last week in IE. But can you trust the help? Microsoft have never seen the code, you have not seen the code, so why should you trust them? Well, I`ll let that be up to you to choose, but in my case, I`ll just keep on using Firefox for now.
Yet again the the Linux communiteis and now also the growing Mac communities hope that these incidents will help people understand that Windows and Internet Explorer is not the only way to go. And since now Vista will be delayed which will also mean that Office and many other packages and applications will be delayed, they might get more help than expected. But again, only time will show.
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And so they did , and then again . So what to do now? Start using a new browser? Stop browsing the interenet? Or hope that someone else can help? Well the latter might be the save this time. A security company called eEye have released a patch that will temporary fix the most dangerous vulnerabilitie found last week in IE. But can you trust the help? Microsoft have never seen the code, you have not seen the code, so why should you trust them? Well, I`ll let that be up to you to choose, but in my case, I`ll just keep on using Firefox for now.
Yet again the the Linux communiteis and now also the growing Mac communities hope that these incidents will help people understand that Windows and Internet Explorer is not the only way to go. And since now Vista will be delayed which will also mean that Office and many other packages and applications will be delayed, they might get more help than expected. But again, only time will show.
Your next OS online?:
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Published: 20.03.2006 by
It is a lot of talk about Web 2.0 and all the whistles and bells it adds to web pages these days. Social bookmarks, tags and semantic web both here and there. But does it really change something?
Google has made a real hog in the internet market, and changed the way we look at a lot of web applications. Rumors has constantly been swirling about them making their own Browser, their own OS, and all other sorts of things. And when they came with their own chat client, then one of my friends only words was “It was inevitable” .
But in all these rumors I got the idea about an online OS. Why had no one seriously tried to make an online OS? Did no one think about it? No one dare to see if it could work? Or was the web just not ready for it yet?
I kept thinking about the idea for a couple of more months. I was thinking how handy it would be to be able to have all documents online, to be able to compile source code, or Latex, and just in general have a life without a local hard drive and a USB pen with me all the time.
Then thoughts kept on running wild and I thought about all the visions the Flock developers have. And I expanded their vision to add tight integration to an online OS. All these ideas seemed so nice, but then work took over and I totally forgot about it. Until I stumbled over eyeOS today.
My thought about an online world was back and swirling as ever before. I downloaded it and did some tests, and even if it is a bit slow on my web server, I am pretty impressed. It is a good start on my idea, even if it is far away from an online life style as I had imagined. I don’t think that will ever be possible before a bandwidth will be much higher, and maybe a browser vendor dares to pick up on it. Maybe Flock will be the browser to do something about it. You never know.
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Google has made a real hog in the internet market, and changed the way we look at a lot of web applications. Rumors has constantly been swirling about them making their own Browser, their own OS, and all other sorts of things. And when they came with their own chat client, then one of my friends only words was “It was inevitable” .
But in all these rumors I got the idea about an online OS. Why had no one seriously tried to make an online OS? Did no one think about it? No one dare to see if it could work? Or was the web just not ready for it yet?
I kept thinking about the idea for a couple of more months. I was thinking how handy it would be to be able to have all documents online, to be able to compile source code, or Latex, and just in general have a life without a local hard drive and a USB pen with me all the time.
Then thoughts kept on running wild and I thought about all the visions the Flock developers have. And I expanded their vision to add tight integration to an online OS. All these ideas seemed so nice, but then work took over and I totally forgot about it. Until I stumbled over eyeOS today.
My thought about an online world was back and swirling as ever before. I downloaded it and did some tests, and even if it is a bit slow on my web server, I am pretty impressed. It is a good start on my idea, even if it is far away from an online life style as I had imagined. I don’t think that will ever be possible before a bandwidth will be much higher, and maybe a browser vendor dares to pick up on it. Maybe Flock will be the browser to do something about it. You never know.
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