With media these days being produced and released in widescreen formats, it’s not surprising that most people would choose a widescreen LCD over a normal aspect ratio LCD (notice the fat black bands at the top and bottom of your screen?). This switch was further accelerated with widescreen LCD prices offered at relatively competitive prices [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Guides on January 1st, 2007 by ck 2 Comments »
With the Taiwan’s earthquake and international links going down incidents, access to the world wide web has become much slower for most of the users in this region. The temporary workaround is to configure and use a proxy server in your web browser.
A proxy server is a computer that offers a computer network service to [...]
Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Guides on December 9th, 2006 by Sian Siew 1 Comment »
Have the Tab Mix Plus extension installed in your Firefox and recently encountered weird issues where links which open in new window/tab opens in your current tab instead? It happened to me and ck recently, which after some messing around, found out that the new update to the Tab Mix Plus was the cause of [...]
You probably would’ve noticed the dotted underlined red lines under misspelt words which are typed into text boxes/forms/fields. To me, it’s a rather welcomed feature since I use web applications and services quite a fair bit (I don’t misspell a lot, but automated checking is a bonus I guess ;)), but by default, the bundled [...]
Many people said Firefox is not as good as Opera and/or Maxthon because it has less functions; they claimed, goodies like mouse gesture and super drag-and-go should be included by default in Firefox, instead of relying third party developers to deliver them through the form of extension.
IMO, Firefox is on the right track. I’d anytime [...]
With the recent release of Firefox 2, there has been numerous changes to the interface as well as additional new features. In this short writeup, I’ll cover 3 tweaks which are the close tab button’s position, minimum tab width and a change to certain shortcut keys used in most forums.
I’ve been using Firefox 2.0 since it was at Beta 2 a few weeks ago, and I am happy to say it has been relatively stable. I had it running for nearly a week before it got cranky, which is quite a long way since the days when I had to restart it every day [...]