The Archives
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05.12.07Messina’s MozifestoChris Messina's 50 minute video manifesto about where Mozilla ought to be taking itself is mighty impressive stuff. He's obviously put a heap of though into his position, although I think that my Web Worker Daily colleague (I'm guest blogging there in May), Anne Zelenka's response is possibly closer to the mark. Here are my thoughts: while I think that the browser will become less important as platforms such as Apollo and Silverlight build market share and deliver browser-like functions to user desktops, I don't think browsers are likely to disappear in the next two to three years; Firefox has the browser ...
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03.01.07Browser slowdown factorsI don't think that this issue is wholly with Safari. And I think it's a little unfair for the article to imply so. Browsers these days are complex beasts; they need to render (X)HTML and CSS properly (or not...), provide supporting frameworks for who knows how many mimetypes and plugins, run multiple tabs, be extensible so that addons can be... well... added on. It doesn't surprise me in the least that today's browsers have memory management issues. And when addon authors inadvertently don't properly manage thread and memory safety, frankly, you're doomed. I've been having massive issues with Firefox ...
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12.28.06TagEverywhere for FirefoxThis is possibly the coolest Firefox extension in its space (tagging) ever! del.icio.us tags everywhere!
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07.26.06&%#damn Powerbook crashesUPDATE - Not Firefox but another dodgy logic board. See this post. Of late, my Powerbook has been crashing to a "grey screen of death" (you know the one with the overlay on the screen) or just freezing. Many, many reboots have ensued, accompanied by profuse swearing. Occasionally, what I'm assuming is the leftover pollution from the crash causes another crash on startup. More swearing. I've pretty much singled out Firefox (or at least Firefox and a combination of one or more extensions) as the culprit. Be damned if I can single out which of the little ...
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06.15.06Firefox + OS X = CPU and RAM (chomp… chomp… chomp…)Firefox on my Powerbook is really starting to give me the sh#*s. I've ensured that I have as few extensions as I can live with. I think I have around 15, including Google Toolbar, Adblock, Adblock Filterset.G Updater, coComment, FireBug, FasterFox, PDF Download, Web Developer, Sage, del.icio.us, CustomizeGoogle, Update Notifier, Restart Firefox, Download Statusbar, Linkedin Companion and the new Google Browser Sync). As it stands, every time I shift tabs, or try to load a page, the thing goes into beachball madness and the CPU maxes out for anything up to 30 seconds. Frankly, I'm not delighted ...
