Yesterday the IE9 Beta was released so you may want to download it and start testing. However, if you’re still on XP, you’re out of luck:
According to The Register, Ryan Gavin, senior director of IE business and marketing, confirmed that "Microsoft would not put IE9 hardware acceleration features in the current version of its browser, IE8, or back port IE9 to older PCs running Windows XP."
The full story is on Read Write Web.
Firefox automatically checks for updates to addons, but not for plugins such as Java, Silverlight, and Flash. If you’d like to know if these are up to date on your system just run Firefox and head on over to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/. If anything’s old, you’ll be provided with a link to download and install the update.
The other day I wrote about Friefox’s private browsing mode. Google’s Chrome browser has a similar feature they call incognito mode. To start Chrome in this mode automatically create a new desktop shortcut to the browser with -incognito on the end of the target line.
Via Lifehacker
You’ve got the perfect set of add-ons installed on your copy of Firefox. Then, you find yourself setting up another copy on a different computer. Easy to install but finding and installing all those add-ons again will be a bit of a pain. Instead of that tedious process, just install the Mozilla Firefox Add-on Collector on both installations. This way you can back up all the add-ons from one copy of Firefox and reinstall them on the new copy en masse.
Additional features include:
I love me some search plugins. Those wonderful additions to the search box in Firefox, and more built-in to Chrome via keywords. Recently I was wondering if there was one for searching Netflix. I tried looking on the Netflix site but I couldn’t find one. I do know how to write them myself, but that’s not exactly an efficient use of my time if someone has already written one. So, off to the Google and what do I find? The Myroft Project. This is a directory of thousands of search plugins, including the Netflix one I was looking for. You can search by site name, category, country, and language. If you can’t find it here, you’ll probably have to write it yourself. (If you do, be sure to add it to the directory.)
“Have you ever come across a web site that you could not access and wondered,”Am I the only one?” Herdict Web aggregates reports of inaccessible sites, allowing users to compare data to see if inaccessibility is a shared problem. By crowdsourcing data from around the world, we can document accessibility for any web site, anywhere.”
There are three ways to participate:
The single biggest complaint most Firefox users have about Google Chrome is the complete lack of add-ons. I’ve got to admit that I’ve not missed most of my Firefox add-ons but I do understand the problem. But, there are bookmarklets that will reproduce many of the most commonly used Firefox add-ons out there. Check out this post from Read Write Web for a list a further details.
