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- Firefox Hacks: Get a Custom, Prebuilt Version
- Firefox, and Mozilla technology in general, are under constant development by the Mozilla Foundation. The Firefox source code is also freely available for anyone to compile, so executable or installable versions of Firefox could come from anywhere. Most such distributions aren't widely known, though. This paper explains what's out there,...
- Book chapters 2005-03-01
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- Friendlier source code with two Firefox add-ons
- While Internet Explorer is popular with users, Firefox is the best browser for Web developers. I continue to discover and take advantage of the myriad of add-ons available for Firefox. I recently discovered two tools -- View formatted source and View Source Chart -- for viewing and working with the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Friendlier source code with two Firefox add-ons
- Pretty useful, thanks Tony!Tony -I was just wondering about something like this just last week while struggling with some CSS, thanks for writing about this!J.JaRE: Friendlier source code with two Firefox add-onsUseful additions to Firebug which is nearly the ultimate Firefox development addon.RE: Friendlier source code with two Firefox add-onsMy...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Weigh the cool factor of immortalizing your name in Firefox 2
- Mozilla Foundation's marketing team heats up the battle between the browsers as they offer people the chance to "immortalize" their names in Firefox 2. See the news story: "Write your name in the Firefox code." According to the article, "To commemorate the three-year anniversary of the creation of the Mozilla...
- Blog posts 2006-07-18
- Is Firefox (or Opera) safe to use for online banking?
- Is it safe to start using Firefox 1.0 for online banking? Does firefox offers the same 128 bit cipher strength encryption as IE6 SP1? It used to be that banking sites that I made use of required the use of the most recent version Internet Explorer running with...
- Discussion threads 2005-01-31
- Firefox aims for 10 percent of Web surfers
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- Technical articles 2004-10-26
- Firefox fortune hunters
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- Technical articles 2004-11-17
- Open Source software vs. Proprietary software
- Open Source software vs. Proprietary softwareIn keeping up with the Open Source software movement, I've come across a single, basic flaw.The only way to ensure that your executable is as it should be, is to perform a comprehensive review the source code and to recompile it yourself.I can, very easily,...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-12
- Write your name in the Firefox code
- Fame as a incentive - a low point for FireFoxWhile I am a "end-user" of FireFox, I feel sorry for anyone working with source code that may have to contend with a huge comment block or something of names. I'm also hoping that however these names end up in...
- Discussion threads 2006-07-21
- Microsoft says Firefox not a threat to IE
- Microsoft says Firefox not a threat to IEarticle rootNo threat if you don't mind SpywareI used Netscape since its emergence, quit after Netscape 6 proved to be such a disaster (and Netscape 4.5 became more and more unsupported on newer websites). After becoming victim to numerous cascading Spyware attacks while...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-22
- Firefox ad readied as market share increases
- Firefox ad readied as market share increasesarticle rootFirefox preps ad, inches up on IETo mark last month's official launch of the Firefox browser, the Mozilla Foundation is taking out a full-page ad in The New York Times thanking financial contributors. While the group waits for the ad to run, they...
- Discussion threads 2004-12-15
- Open source versus proprietary: Does the debate really have to be endless?
- In the past few months, the debate concerning which softwarepurchasing/licensing protocol is better, open source or proprietary, continuesto percolate in the TechRepublic discussion boards. On one side of the debate,we have the camp that distrusts the motivations of the open source communityand dismisses the viability of an economic model that...
- Technical articles 2004-11-30
- Sprucing up open source's GPL foundation
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- Technical articles 2004-12-23
- Open source versus proprietary: Does the debate really have to be endless?
- Open source versus proprietary: Does the debate really have to be endless?article rootOpen Source need CertificationOpen Source software needs a certification body. The argument rightly states that businesses and home users won't adopt OS on a large scale becuase of the security implications - and lack of fall-back. A body...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-30
- Firefox Does The Biz
- Firefox Does The BizLike the previous writer, I find it a little odd that anyone would want to fiddle around with IE when Firefox, and others, provide an acceptable and free answer to the endless, tedious and, in some cases, ridiculous vulnerabilities that haunt all Microsoft products. I am not...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-28
- Microsoft may be Firefox's worst vulnerability
- What are you planning to do about the fact Microsoft has seen fit to install on your computer that egregious security vulnerability known as ".NET Framework Assistant" as a Firefox extension without telling you about it?I, for one, put a post-it note on the MS Windows test system here, with...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-02
- Open Source Does Not Make Better Code. Better Programmers Make Better Code.
- Every now and then, I will see a "dispelling the myths of open source" type of article, blog, discussion, or whatever come my way, and it always seems to come around to the "more eyeballs means less defects" idea. For whatever reason, many open source proponents seem to believe that...
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- Security through visibility: The secrets of open source security
- Debatesrage across the Internet about the comparative security of Microsoft Windows and Linux-based operating systems.Many people have vested and biased interests in their positions on the matter. Misconceptionsborn of incomplete knowledge and logical fallacies contribute to the confusionand the heat of the debate. Advertising campaigns attempt to cast theirsponsors in...
- Technical articles 2006-04-25
- Study: Firefox still gaining on Internet Explorer
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- Technical articles 2004-11-02
- Create a data binding solution for Firefox
- One fact that sets Firefox apart from Internet Explorer is that it provides support for XBL eXtensible Binding Language. Here's an examination of how XBL is important for binding data fields to XML data islands. Mozilla's Firefox browser is becoming a favorite among Web application developers, including myself....
- Technical articles 2005-08-09
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