There’s something about seeing an ordinary object online in 3D that makes it seem exciting. Even though everything in real life is 3D, it’s cool when movies or computers can do it.
If you are genuinely enthused by 3D objects, you must have a very exciting life. Hey Joe, you’re in 3D! There’s [...]

The first release candidate of Firefox 3 is available. If you hadn’t upgraded before because of instability concerns, this should take care of all known issues. If no new showstopper bugs are found, this release will be the official one.
Download it now (or go to Help -> Check for Updates in your browser)

I was out of the loop for a while on the beta release of Firefox. I like using the latest browsers but for some reason this release escaped me until Beta 4 was out. My first impression: it’s faster, renders pages better and uses less memory than Firefox 2.
I’ve been using it for [...]

Do you type in URLs of well known sites over and over and over again? I’ve been doing it for years because I couldn’t think of a better way to browse to frequently used sites. I didn’t want to create bookmarks for two reasons. One, I use several different machines and keeping [...]

I’ve watched this at least 10 times, and I laugh every time. I love the Safari icon.

Sites like techcrunch (among many others) have introduced an annoyance that I find exceedingly . . . annoying.
Fortunately for me (and anyone else who is similarly annoyed), you have but to click this magical link. It will set a cookie to disable snap preview on every web site that uses it.
(via Paul Bausch via [...]

I was answering a coworker’s question and as he went to a web site I saw he was using Firefox, but all of the tabs were different colors. I thought it might be a skin, but mentioned that I liked his colorful tabs. He laughed and said that was the precise name of [...]

I wish I’d had this free uninstaller for Windows XP when I ran into this issue.
I installed Internet Explorer 7 to see what it was like and was impressed. The tabs are a big improvement and in general I was pleased with it. Then I found out there were several web applications that [...]

I like making efficient use of my time, so I’m a big fan of anything that makes common tasks easier. I noticed a small set of web sites that I used a great deal, and realized that making it faster to use those sites would result in significant time savings.
I’ve already talked about quicksearches [...]

What’s up with the acronym tag in Firefox 2.0? It used to show alt text when you hovered over the acronym but as of the 2.0 release it no longer displays anything when you mouse over it. The acronym is still underlined and the mouse cursor changes when you mouse over it, but [...]

Opera changed a few shortcuts to match Firefox (like Ctrl-t to open a new tab), which I like because it makes it easier to switch back and forth between browsers. However I couldn’t figure out how to switch between tabs. I looked on the opera keyboard shortcuts page and found that you have [...]

If you use del.icio.us and have lots of tags, you might have noticed that the pages take a long time to load. I just discovered a very easy way to dramatically decrease the time it takes to load the pages.
Go to the very bottom of the tags on the right and collapse them. [...]

In Firefox, I have the pages I’m browsing in tabs within a single window. I find it annoying to have a new window pop up when I click a link. Granted, I can Ctrl-click to have the link show up in a tab, but I discovered a better solution. In the Firefox [...]

I have a list of ideas that I’d like to implement (I use MediaWiki, the same software that runs wikipedia.org, to manage all of my lists and things I want to remember. It’s turned out quite nicely).
But back to my original point. On the list of things to implement, I had the idea [...]

I’ve been an Opera fan for several years now, but I haven’t used Opera 8.x in the past year because it didn’t support several essential features in Gmail (like auto-completing e-mail addresses). As a result, I’ve used Firefox exclusively. The last few releases of Firefox have seemed to make it more sluggish and [...]

If you use Bugzilla as a bug tracking database, or use any bug tracking database for that matter, this may be a handy tip. I often have a bug ID that I want to look up and it’s kind of a pain to have to go to the main bugzilla page, click in the [...]

I’ve been an Opera user for several years along with being a Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox aficionado and now that Opera 8.01 is out, here are my thoughts.
First, what I like.
Easy to switch plugins on and off (F12 and you can turn on flash, Java, sound etc)
Fast (page rendering and generally as an application)
Works with Gmail (a big [...]

Opera 8.01 has been released with some security fixes. You can download it from the official site.
Here are the changelogs for linux and windows.

The Firefox team has released yet another version (1.0.3) but I have one major complaint. Every time I upgrade, I have to reinstall all the extensions. This has made me give up on having a lot of extensions, because I have three computers that I use on a regular basis. I used [...]

Opera 8.0 has been released. Get it while it’s hot.
Here’s an overview of the new features it provides.
Also, to get a free license you just have to refer 250 unique visitors.

I found a site that tests your web browser’s security, trying various exploits to see if you’re vulnerable to them.
There’s another site that tests you how well your browser blocks popups.
Occasionally I’ll get a popup, but it’s been so infrequent that I haven’t bothered figuring out how they’re getting through.

One of the things I really like about Opera is the ease of searching on Google. To search for information about walruses, type ‘g walruses’ in the URL field and you’re there. Using Firefox, I used to type ‘google.com’ in the URL field which would take me to Google’s web site and I [...]

It doesn’t happen too much anymore, but in the earlier days of browsers they would crash far too often, and I consequently lost what I was working on. I remember several occasions when I was writing a long e-mail and the browser crashed and I had to write it all over again. Another [...]

I currently spell check my blog entries by copying and pasting the text of the entry onto spellcheck.net, but I’ve found an easier way with Firefox. It’s called the SpellBound extension and it allows you to spell check any text area by right-clicking in it and selecting the ‘Check Spelling’ option.
I tried installing it [...]

Firefox is getting a lot of media attention right now, but it’s odd that Opera hasn’t gotten much. Many of the features that people are raving about in Firefox have been available for years in Opera. This wired article about Opera discusses the history of the forgotten browser.
Unlike the majority of web users, [...]

In this guide to installing Firefox the author outlines all the extensions he uses. The vast array of extensions is good and bad. It’s good because it allows people to extend the browser to do all sorts of things the original developers never dreamed of, but it also means that if you have [...]

Firefox 1.0 has been released, get it while it’s hot. Oddly enough, the default start page is a customized Firefox page on Google. I wonder what’s cooking there…

I don’t know how I’m supposed to find out about new releases, but I just happened to check opera.com and saw that version 7.52 is available.
I thought I was already subscribed to the Opera newsletter but I haven’t gotten any e-mails in a while, so I’ve resubscribed. That should at least keep me up [...]

I don’t know if anyone else has this problem, but whenever I click on a mailto link for an e-mail address Opera pops up a window asking me to configure the mail client. Also, It was a mild annoyance so I didn’t bother doing anything about it, but I recently discovered that you can [...]

I’ve found that with recent (1.6, 1.7) versions of Mozilla on Linux, you aren’t able to run multiple instances of the browser. If Mozilla is already running and you try to run Mozilla again, you get the Profile Manager which is a nuisance and of little use.
My solution was to write a shell script [...]

I have been using Opera since 5.0 but Opera 7 has quite a few new features that I have only recently discovered. I’ve been keeping track of the coolest features I’ve found and compiled this list. I may make occasional updates as I find out about new features, but here’s what I have [...]

Fresh out of the oven, Opera 7.50 is out of beta and has been officially released. I’m using it right now to post this entry.
Stay tuned for a post I’ve been working on for months about lots of the features of Opera 7. I want to take a look at the new features [...]

Opera continues to improve their browser with the latest release, Opera 7.5 Beta 1.
A few of the highlights of this release include

User interface redesigned
Chat client
RSS newsfeeds
Fast full-text indexing of e-mail messages
Support for spell check
Graphical smileys in chat and e-mail

I just happened to take a look at Opera’s web site today and found out that as of today, they’ve completed an IPO and will be listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange tomorrow.
The price per share has been set at NOK 10, which translates into roughly $1.41 in US currency.

A security release of Opera has been released and recommended for download on both Windows and Linux.

Opera 7.21 for Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Solaris has been released. You can download it here.

I’ve been using Opera for a long time (over two years I believe) but as of today I am a registered customer. I decided they deserve my support and bought a license for Linux and Windows. The immediate benefit is that I no longer have to see the ads, but I was used [...]

Opera has released opera 7.11 for Linux. Thankfully they fixed the bug that made me look foolish when I made a comment on metafilter.

Opera has released version 7.10 beta for Linux.

A side-by-side comparison between Mozilla and Internet Explorer. Which would you pick?

Companies that listen to their customers deserve recognition. Opera had decided not to release a security fix to Opera 6.05 after fixing the issue in 7.03. When they found out that people were interested in updating their older version instead of going to 7.03, they released 6.06 (download) with the fix. (via [...]

I went to www.w3.org/Style/CSS using Opera 7.03 and it froze. I tried it again. It froze. One more time, just to be sure, and it still froze.
I’m a fan of Opera, but it seems strange that the page which describes the standards Opera claims to adhere to so strictly doesn’t work.
Of course, [...]

Opera released v7.03 for Windows today, addressing a long filename issue that could allow malicious web sites to gain full control of the users computer. Version 6.12 for Linux is also available.
In addition, Mozilla 1.3 is out with more features.

A security audit of Opera 7.0 revealed five security holes. Within five days of hearing about them, they released version 7.01, which fixes all of the holes. More discussion at slashdot.
Impressive.

If you have a web site, don’t restrict browsers without reason. I use Opera and Galeon mainly but reporting.net displayed an error saying that I had to use IE, Netscape or Mozilla. Galeon uses Mozilla’s libraries, so the rendering is identical, but they wouldn’t let me use it. Thankfully, the designers of [...]

Opera 6.10 for Linux is out.

I’ve noticed that in Mozilla (or Galeon) on Linux there are a small number of sites that have an icon next to the URL. Naturally, I wanted to join the elite few and spent the better part of an hour trying to find out how to accomplish this little web site trickery. I [...]

There are over 1 million sites with notices stating that a “browser is not supported“, typically in large, bold type at the top of the page. Why would a site choose not to support a browser? Browsers should only be expected to render sites which follow the standards provided by the W3C. [...]

During my trip, Mozilla 1.1 was released and it’s downloading as I type this.

I used to check for upgrades to Opera almost every day because there were bugs that I wanted to have fixed, but ever since 6.01 I’ve been quite happy with the stability. As a result, I haven’t been nearly as anxious to get the latest version. I checked it today and found that [...]