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US goverment site where Opera works but Firefox doesn't

Friday, 29. December 2006, 20:01:47

That site is the prove that not only Opera suffers from browser sniffing.
If you try to click on Calculate button using Firefox you will get this message:

Please ise Netscape4.7 and below
to see your result
or, please use IE.
Thank you

Digg?

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Firechicken?

Tuesday, 26. December 2006, 19:44:03

firefox, specification, firechicken, specs ...

Mozilla decided to tweak the specs to solve the problem their bugs created.

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Good words on Opera's access keys solution

Tuesday, 26. December 2006, 16:43:35

Opera, access keys, firefox

Firefox would be well-advised to follow Opera Software's lead on this issue, as Opera is, without a shadow of doubt, way ahead of their competitors where access keys are concerned. In Opera, pressing shift+Esc lists all access keys used on the page, and can be activated from that point using the single key alone. Opera also allows the keystroke combination to be configured by the user, making it possible to provide a single modifier key to invoke access keys, rather than the default shift+Esc.

From Firefox 2.0 and Access Keys by Gez Lemon.

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Opera's installer sizes: from 2 to 9

Wednesday, 14. June 2006, 21:16:35

Opera, installer, sizes, firefox

Inspired once from Rijk post about Opera installer sizes and famous post about bloat and Opera I decide to do graphs myself.

On the first graph you can see deloping process of Opera 9 (from TP1 to final version). Opera devs managed to add so many new features in just additional ~250 KB over Opera 8.54! Yeah, they also squeezed in some new bugs too!

Significant drop in size in build 8326 (classic installer) - no more Flash plugin.
No more comments - see yourself (bigger versions under links).

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Firefox - "nobody's working on this..."

Tuesday, 17. January 2006, 08:14:45

firefox, fieldset, float, bug ...

I really hate this regression bug in Firefox 1.5. It will really hurt many of web designers which decide to code pages in standard and accessible way.
That is - Firefox 1.5 floating inside FIELDSET bug. You just can't make any floating element inside FIELDSET.

Till now "Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it".

Update: Somebody now finally working on this. Now I hope that fix will be ready until next FF update.
Update: Fixed in Firefox 2.0 Alpha 2. In Firefox 1.5 many CSS form layouts still broken.

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New Firefox 1.5 has some CSS rendering regression bugs

Tuesday, 13. December 2005, 06:52:39

firefox, CSS, bug, clear ...

Test this page in different browsers. ~~Seems than in this particular case Firefox 1.5 doesn't get clear:left on the DL elements.~~
Update: Ok. Clearing floats inside FIELDSET doesn't work in Firefox 1.5. This bug was known before Firefox 1.5 release. They just left it in a hurry because:

Even though it is a regression, the impact is minor we are very close to lockdown for rc2 so it looks like it is not going to make it.

I hate regressions in CSS!

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Mail.ru has twice more Opera users than Firefox

Tuesday, 13. December 2005, 01:00:21

Opera, firefox, browser, stats ...

Some interesting browser statistics from ex-USSR region.
Mail.ru - the biggest web-mail portal:

Internet Explorer    82.41 %
Opera                 8.50 %
Firefox               4.50 %
MyIE                  3.52 %
Mozilla               0.59 %
Netscape              0.30 %
Safari                0.14 %
Konqueror             0.03 %

How interesting! Opera there has almost twice more users than Firefox. And that all with smarter Opera cache! Amazing!

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Opera still count as not completly free in PC World's Top Products 2005!

Monday, 5. December 2005, 16:50:57

Opera, firefox, pc world, raiting ...

Opera got position 88 while Firefox considered number 1 in PC World's Top Products 2005 rating.
Here is cite from very small and useless article about Opera:
The Opera browser can be downloaded for free, though that version comes with sponsored banner advertisements. A banner-free version is available for $39.
old news...

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New browser war battles arise

Wednesday, 30. November 2005, 17:32:26

browsers war, Opera, firefox

New browser war battle arise in Betanews news article about Firefox 1.5 release. It was provoke just by this comment:

Opens page in IE 6.0. Ok.
Opens page in Firefox 1.5. Ok.
Opens page in Opera 8.5. Still doesn't work.
Yes, I see a pattern... Opera devs doesn't care about proper JavaScript support.

Also slashdotters have their usual browsers battle too.
Yeeeeah! I like browser wars.

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Now, Will Firefox Move in Right Direction?

Wednesday, 9. November 2005, 16:27:06

Opera, firefox, tabs, usability ...

Improving Tabbed Browsing article on Mozillazine blog.
My comment here is only one ~~word~~ image:

Here also some cite from response called "Usability of tabbed browsing in Firefox" on 456 Berea St:

The usability studies were done at Google, using a special build of Firefox 1.5b1 that was configured to open targeted links in new tabs instead of in new Windows.
The testing revealed some things that caused problems for many users:

Back button: When a new tab is created, it gets a blank session history, so you can’t use the back button to get back to the page that launched the tab.

Closing tabs: Many did not see the close button, and instead used the contextual menu to close tabs. Some tried closing the entire browser window instead of just the tab.

Stacking order of tabs: When closing a tab that was opened by a targeted link from another tab, the adjacent tab is made active instead of the tab containing the opening link.

The team experimented with some adjustments to the tabbed browsing in Firefox to find out if they would improve usability:

Put close buttons on the tabs

Change the closing order of tabs

Implement an “Open links that would open new windows in tabs” preference