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nelson : Chrome auto-translations - New feature in Google's browser: automatically translate web page text in the frame
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wearehugh : High Performance Web Sites :: Browser Performance Wishlist
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wearehugh : High Performance Web Sites :: 5a Missing schema double download - Oh Internet Explorer, how do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
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nelson : Historical browser stats - Interesting visualization
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Richard Rutter : Browser Choice vs Font Rendering - Phinney on Fonts.
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nelson : Chromium in Eve Online - Interesting; popular MMO game will be embedding Google Chrome via the Awesomium library
deusx : The Second Coming of Moondoggie | EVE Online | EVE Insider | Dev Blog - "It's a hefty wave to catch, but our browser has already been Atlas for five years - the IGB is perched atop a custom-written HTML parsing and rendering system. While a noble technical endeavor, this leaves to us the tasks of upgrading and exten
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philgyford : Run Internet Explorer 6 (or IE7, or IE8) images in VMware Fusion on Mac OS X - Ryan Parman - I've avoided IE 8 so far, but guess I'll need to give it a whirl soon. Harrumph. (via Tom Taylor)
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nelson : Thanks for giving my pixels back - Nice appreciation of the trend of web browsers to minimize their UI
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deusx : US State Dept. workers beg Clinton for Firefox [printer-friendly] • The Register - ""Nothing is free," Kennedy responded. "It’s a question of the resources to manage multiple systems. It is something we’re looking at...It has to be administered. The patches have to be loaded. It may seem small, but when you’re
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Richard Rutter : Mozilla’s John Daggett on @font-face - Pretty complete write-up.
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Richard Rutter : Why EOT really didn’t make it into Gecko and Webkit - It was down to the lawyers..
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deusx : To Sprite Or Not To Sprite at Vladimir Vukićević - "The biggest problem with CSS sprites is memory usage. Unless the sprite image is carefully constructed, you end up with incredible amounts of wasted space. My favourite example is from WHIT TV's web site, where this image is used as a sprite.
Simon Willison : To Sprite Or Not To Sprite - To Sprite Or Not To Sprite. CSS sprite images are decompressed to full bitmaps by browsers before they are rendered, so sprite files with large numbers of pixels will dramatically increase the memory footprint of your site.
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deusx : Answers and Questions » Blog Archive » Electrolysis: Making Mozilla Faster and More Stable Using Multiple Processes - "For a long while now (even before Google Chrome was announced), Mozilla has been examining ways to make Firefox better by splitting the work of displaying web pages up among multiple processes."
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deusx : Multi-process Firefox, coming to an Internets near you < Chris Pitchin’ Hey - "The fun comes when I kill -9 this gecko-iframe, the “tab” containing mozilla.com. To the non-geeky, invoking kill -9 on a program causes it to crash IMMEDIATELY. This simulates what would happen if, say, you tried to run a buggy plugin and it go
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deusx : Icrontic » Firefox 3.5 by month’s end - "The new version of the increasingly popular browser carries a clearinghouse of features, some 5,000 in all according to Mozilla. Headlining for the raft of changes includes: HTML5 streaming video, IP geolocation for location-sensitive websites (thin
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wearehugh : Secure Content Sniffing for Web Browsers
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wearehugh : http://www.adambarth.com/papers/2009/barth-caballero-song.pdf
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Richard Rutter : Styling scrollbars in Webkit - Complete customization, not just colours.
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philgyford : Safari 4 benchmarked: 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox 3 - Crave at CNET UK - Shockingly bad bar charts. 3D bars drawn in perspective don't help with comparisons.
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jonhicks : The Great Feature Train Robbery - Without whining, Dustin lays out how innovations in Opera are later copied in other browsers. He explains that this is fine - that's how the ecosystem works, it's just the claim of 'innovation' on the part of Apple (or Mozilla…)
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Douglas Bowman : IE NetRenderer - Free service from a datacenter in Germany that allows you to check the rendering of any website in IE 5.5, 6, 7, or 8. It’s fast — it returned each screenshot for me in about 5 seconds. Screenshot size seems to be fixed at 1024×768, so yo [via]
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deusx : Steam Update Adds In-game Web Browsing - Shacknews - PC Games, PlayStation, Xbox 360 and Wii video game news, previews and downloads - "Valve today released an update to Steam that includes the final version of the in-game web browser from December's beta patch. "
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deusx : Microsoft Internet Explorer users told to switch browsers over 'zero-day' flaw | Technology | guardian.co.uk - "Microsoft is trying to put together a patch, but in the meantime computer users have been advised to update their security settings or switch to unaffected browsers such as Firefox or Opera. ... The flaw in IE allows criminals to gain control of com
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deusx : Apple - Support - Discussions - Clipboard being taken over through ... - The girl ran into this one tonight. Weird. Some popup or tab has a Flash movie embedded that repeatedly refreshes the clipboard with a nasty URL. "This has happened to me twice now, on two separate computers at work. My clipboard has been hijacked
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Simon Willison : Internet explorer mystery #1376 - Internet explorer mystery #1376. IE executes function definitions inside an “if (0)” block. That frightens me.
deusx : Ned Batchelder: Internet explorer mystery #1376 - "In IE, the redefinition of really() is interpreted and used even though it is inside a block of code that is not executed. Wonder of wonders..."
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