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Collecting add-ons

John — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:25:11 +0000

Mozilla has recently re-vamped their addons site, and with it publicly released Collections.

Collections is an essentially an awesome way of grouping a bunch of add-ons for Firefox. You can then subscribe to these “Collections” and manage them using the “Add-on Collector” add-on for Firefox.

You can make your own collection or select one that’s already made filled with the add-ons of the author’s choice.

This is going to make installing all those add-ons on a fresh copy of Firefox just that much easier. You can use this for your own personal installation(s) of Firefox, but think also of the Sys Admins here, they can make a collection of default add-ons that they want all users in the organisation to have installed – handy, I think so.

At the moment you need a Mozilla account (you can register for free) to create collections and subscribe to them, you do not need an account to browse through the publicly available collections and download the add-ons within.

Naturally I couldn’t resist and I made a collection of Web Dev add-ons that I frequently use.

IE6 Upgrade Warning – Google Code

John — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:11:15 +0000

I do always like a nice way to stop IE6 from further harming people’s computers. Telling them they should upgrade is but a small service website owners can use to help people upgrade their browser.

The ie6-upgrade-warning is a little script 7.9kb that displays a warning message politely informing the user to upgrade the browser to a newer version links to newest IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome are provided. The webpage is still visible behind a transparent background, but access to it is prevented. The idea is to force users to upgrade from IE6 and avoid the website from a bad reputation that website is not rendering correctly in IE6.

via ie6-upgrade-warning – Google Code.

TG Daily – Google tells users to drop IE6

John — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:16:02 +0000

Chicago (IL) – Taking a page out of Apple’s book, Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome that, according to the company, run the popular web-based email service “twice as fast.” Google also labels IE6 as an unsupported browser, meaning it fails to run some Gmail features.

TG Daily – Google tells users to drop IE6.

From the Department of Badly Chosen Defaults

John — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:44:13 +0000

Note that all the other browsers use bicubic interpolation for scaling by default, because that’s the only thing that make sense, but IE requires a non-standard CSS extension. So, pictures on this site should be a little smoother for those of you determined to use Internet Explorer.

From the Department of Badly Chosen Defaults – Joel on Software.

IE’s Decline Makes ‘Cross Browser’ More Relevant

John — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:13:03 +0000

Though IE still has a commanding lead in the browser market, 2009 should see continued growth for Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (though Chrome could slow down the growth of other alternative browsers once it has extensions). Internet Explorer, meanwhile, is expected to continue its decline. As browser parity nears (at least in terms of user reach), cross browser and cross platform functionality is becoming more and more important. Already Firefox and Safari have shares of the market too significant to ignore, and Chrome could get to that point in a hurry.

SitePoint » IE’s Decline Makes ‘Cross Browser’ More Relevant.