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Building Firefox Plugins using Visual Studio

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:01:01 GMT

If you use Visual studio as a development environment and want to develop plugins for Firefox here are a few points to help you get started.

Building Firefox Plugins using Visual Studio

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:01:01 GMT

If you use Visual studio as a development environment and want to develop plugins for Firefox here are a few points to help you get started.

skmMenu 2.3 IE 8 (beta 2), Google Chrome, FF 3.0.1

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:35:07 GMT

skmMenu still rocks Here is the sample code which works on all the major browsers IE 8 (Beta 2), Google Chrome, Fire Fox 3.0.1 and IE 7

Browser Performance - What's Changed with Chrome in the Mix?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:18:39 GMT

This week Google released their new browser, Chrome. There has been so much buzz about it that it's been deafening. It is seriously amazing how passionate people get about a browser. But let's face it, a browser is likely what most people use more than any other software on their computer now days. I spend so much of my time online. Performance is important to me, just like anyone else. Since Chrome's release, I've spent some time reading performance metrics in an attempt to see past the marketing hype, and I've been pleased with what I've found. Not specifically with Chrome, but with the improvements across the board with many, but certainly not all, browsers.

Test your apps faster with Firefox Server Switcher

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:50:24 GMT

Just a quick little article noting the great add-on available for Firefox to help toggle between dev and live servers.

Firefox 3 - Here comes the reason number #11

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:00:14 GMT

How firefox indexes the <Title> tag as well... I like it

Speed up Firefox when using Development Server

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:31:02 GMT

Using Firefox on Vista to view websites hosted by the Visual Studio Development Server can be unbearably slow. Pages take aeons (i.e. several seconds) to load while viewing the same site under IE does not suffer from this issue. Here's how to solve the problem.

IE Sends Mozilla a New Cake for Firefox 3

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:31:02 GMT

Sean from Microsoft came by just a few minutes ago to drop off a cake for the Internet Explorer team. As people may recall, the IE team sent Mozilla a cake after Firefox 2 shipped and it seems that they wanted to continue the tradition.

Silverlight 2 (beta 2) and Firefox 3... so happy together...

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:16:03 GMT

Silverlight 2 Beta 2 now works in Firefox 3. Here's some background on the Bugzilla thread detailing the epic struggle.

A tribute to Mozilla Firefox nightly builds

Thu, 08 May 2008 09:35:03 GMT

Because I like Firefox so much I decided to write something about the nightly builds of its next version 3.0. See for yourself some of the great features that this web browser has. It is completely customizable with support to lots of upcoming technologies. Using the nightly builds you'll have the chance of experimenting such upcoming innovations.

Silverlight and Firefox 3

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:46:03 GMT

A post on the status between Silverlight 2 beta and Firefox 3 beta. (Hint: Beta + Beta = Crash)

IE8 vs Firefox 3.0b5 : Javascript Part1

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

First Javascript Speed tests of IE8 vs Firefox 3.0b5 using Dromaeo.

Browser Beta Battle IE8 vs Firefox 3.0b5

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:46:02 GMT

A quick comparison of page load times on IE8 vs Firefox 3.0b5

Firefox - Must have Add-ons

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:33:54 GMT

This article introduces some cool and good add-ons for Firefox which help us to improve surfing experience and also helps in web development.

UpdatePanel, FireFox and the DefaultButton

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:42:38 GMT

"... the one thing that was vexing me was the Default Button. It worked like a charm in IE. In Firefox, it behaved like the ugly step sisters. The problem wasn't that it didn't do a postback. That it did. What it didn't do was hit the server side event (the button click event)."

Edit your CSS code live in Internet Explorer and Firefox

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 06:31:02 GMT

CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. This is like Firebug (CSS only) both in IE & Firefox.

IronMonkey: scripting Firefox natively with IronPython and IronRuby

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:26:38 GMT

IronMonkey has been announced

ClickOnce in Firefox

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:10:54 GMT

ClickOnce support in FireFox via plugin

Prevent postback in FF invoked by textarea enter click (ASP.NET 2.0)

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:46:01 GMT

Solution for bug in MS WebResource.axd javascript. The problem is that when a multiline textbox is put inside panel with DefaultButton set, pressing the enter button while editing text in the textbox submits the form instead of going to new line.

Firefox as an IDE

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:46:01 GMT

"Although I prefer IE7's native speed and feel for day-to-day browsing chores, there's no doubt that Firefox is my primary web development IDE. Whenever I need to troubleshoot HTML, CSS, or JavaScript, I immediately reach for Firefox. That's primarily because of two incredibly powerful developer extensions for Firefox: Web Developer Extension and Firebug"

Make your RSS feeds Auto-Discoverable

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:06:23 GMT

RSS Autodiscovery is a technique that makes it possible for browsers and other software to automatically find a site's RSS feed. This feature is actually support by both Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.

Debug and explore AJAX with FireBug

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:16:01 GMT

An article showing in detail how to use a JavaScript debugger to learn about the ASP.NET AJAX framework and solve common problems.

XUL Starter

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:31:01 GMT

Rob Chartier takes a look at XUL : "I wanted to start investigating XUL, Mozillia's version of XAML (actually XAML is a XUL rip off, but thats another story). If you have used Firefox or Thunderbird then you have already used XUL."

Safari and Firefox Support Improved in ASP.NET AJAX Beta2

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:01:04 GMT

Support for drag and drop of ASP.NET 2.0 web parts has been added for Safari and Firefox.

Geek to Live: Top Firefox 2 config tweaks - Lifehacker

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:31:01 GMT

SWEET tips for making Firefox behave like you want it to.