<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=home/classic/" />

The URL should obviously be set to the location that you want to user to be redirected to.

As I mentioned needing to redirect Internet Explorer 6 users, I can wrap them in Internet Explorer conditional comments to redirect those visitors only.

<!--[if IE 6}>
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=home/classic/" />
<![endif]-->

Happy refreshing.

I’m running Chrome 14.0.835.35 beta. The full release notes on the Chrome Releases blog mentions Additional Mac OS X Lion feature support.

Two-finger swiping for going back and forward works although without the page-behind animation that Safari offers. I liked that, so you could decide if you wanted to actually go back, or if you wanted a peak and could cancel halfway in.

The other new addition is the fullscreen support in Lion. In the top right corner, there is a fullscreen button just like there is in Safari. Like Safari in fullscreen, the Menubar hides when the mouse isn’t near the top of the screen. However, there is an extra button, it looks more like an up-arrow than the opposed arrow Apple uses for going into fullscreen, that will allow the Address bar and bookmarks bar to automatically hide like it did with previous builds.

The remaining feature that is not yet in Chrome is double tapping to zoom. It might seem out to want that as a feature, but I’ve come to love it as I often used to make the text bigger even on my desktop, but on the laptop, it’s so effortless to make the screen bigger and it’s so easy to read.

At least we’re out of canary!

Update:
After more testing, while double tapping to zoom doesn’t work, using two fingers and dragging away from the center will do something. It’s not pretty. It’ll clumsily make the font bigger, or in reverse of course, it will make it smaller. Sadly, the Safari version of zooming is much better.

Happy browsing.

To get Chrome extensions, a trip to the Google Chrome Extensions Gallery will be the best place to go. For the RSS Subscription icon, once on the gallery, you’ll need to search for RSS because such a common and useful tool would never be on the front page – or just use this link to get there quickly.

Then, on the page simply hit the big blue install button. You’ll download the extensions then, and then be prompted if you want to really install it. You of course do agree and you now have a brand new RSS subscription icon, just like your favorite Firefox used to.

Happy feeding.

The problem was that a global variable defined by chrome itself. It was a global read-only variable, it was special. My plugin could not override it, so my plugin broke. It was the media variable. Chrome sent back this error:

TypeError: Object #<a Media> has no method ‘play’

Google went completely against the mantra of reducing global variables and functions. I seriously hope this doesn’t happen increasingly as more browsers update their feature sets.

Good luck.

First of all, help Mozilla test Firefox 3.6. This is a pretty stable beta for me and will probably be stable for you. Check it out.

Look in the top-right corner!

Fullscreen Video Option in Firefox Context Menu

Finally, there are 190 changes, mostly subtle, from Beta 1 to Beta 2. I seriously encourage you to check out Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 if you’re not afraid of using a in-testing piece of software. I’m really enjoying it.

I was just searching around and I stumbled upon what seemed to be a ghost. I wrote about Save The Developers back in November of 2008. It seems that their website is back up. It looks significantly different, the super tiny javascript drop down is gone too.

Save The Developers is Back, Sort of

The site seems to be trying hard to promote other browsers but it certainly seems like a failed attempt. It seems like someone was basically reading a page from Wikipedia and pasting information right into the page along with google image results pertaining to the topic. There aren’t even any links to other browsers, not even to Firefox.

Keep in mind that the very same domain was redirecting to the Microsoft homepage of Internet Explorer not too long ago.

After all of this, I think it is safe to say Save The Developers is back, but it’s not definitely not at full strength, I don’t even know if anything it claims is trustworthy anymore. I think it has lost its steam, its edge that it used to have back in the old days. Therefore I think it is safe enough to offer the same message I ended with before.

Rest In Piece, Save the Developers.

New Layout Chrome v3.0.193.1

The new look is cleaner than the previous iteration. You now get to see eight thumbnails instead of nine. Each thumbnail has a slight gray border and hovered over, it darkens and eventually, about 1.5 seconds in to hovering, a little toolbar fades in. The toolbar is designed to be out of the way but it does give users new control over their thumbnails. You can pin a particular thumbnail to a particular position and of course close one outright. The thumbnails can even be moved around!

The Thumbnail Toolbar

There is also a different option for displaying your most used sites. You can do away with the thumbnails by clicking the icon with three lines in the top right corner. Doing so will cause your thumbnails to fade out, enlarge their title while reordering.

Titles Only

I’m sure this isn’t a final version but I’d say this is very stable and an excellent refresh of the previous layout. Good work Google.

Update

A few minutes after I tweeted about this, you know what Google does? They send me a Google alert about my tweet.

I’ve wondered if it really made a difference so in two of my favorite languages, I did a couple of tests. In Java, I wrote a program to loop up and down one billion times and then take the average over ten runs of that. Javascript would only freeze when I tried to loop with a billion, so I used 100000 instead, but I raised the number of times I took the average. It’s hard to be fair when comparing, but in all honestly, we’re not comparing Java to Javascript, we’re comparing each to themselves.

Without further ado, let’s see some results!

Let’s talk about the Javascript version, first. It had the strangest results. What I found was that when I ran the tests in Firefox 3.5RC1, I normally got close results with decrement being slightly faster. When I racked up the number of trials, the difference between the averages went down, but even then, decrement was always slightly faster. But then I ran the tests in Google Chrome. I often found a 15 millisecond difference between the two averages. Sometimes decrement wasn’t the fastest, but it usually was, and by at least 15 milliseconds. So, in javascript, with a regular loop (nothing fancy about, no frameworks, no prototype mangling) took decrements about 28-32 milliseconds while increments took 28-56 milliseconds. Neat, huh?

Now, how about Java? Because I used significantly higher numbers, I thought the averages would be better. What I found was that, quite often, the averages were the same! Now, this wasn’t always true. Sometimes the decrement would be faster by about 25-50 milliseconds faster. Java wasn’t that interesting, but its safe to say that the decrement loop is slightly faster.

My results are dependant on my computer’s CPU, which is a dual core Athlon 2.40 GHz. The java tests are dependant on the JRE I’m running (6.14) and the javascript tests are dependant on Firefox 3.5RC1 and Chrome 3.0.139.

You can run my tests if you’d life, here’s the java and javascript tests.

Mozilla's Ten Grand Is Buried There

Well, the competition has started now and the clues are streaming out of Twitter. Check those out so you can win ten grand and support the best browser ever so you can donate your ten grand to a open source browser.

Either Mozilla or a supporter put up an excellent site, Ten Grand Is Buried There. This is pretty neat, there’s a Firefox crop circle somewhere and the map is zoomed out too far to see it initially but upon zooming in, you see that’s where ten grand is buried, in the Firefox crop circle. Okay, it’s just a joke.

Another couple of guys actually took a moment out of their day to ask, Is Ten Grand Buried Here? Well, you could guess that it isn’t buried here. Or anywhere actually. That particular site uses IE-conditional comments to hide browser suggests for compliant browsers and for IE-users, it suggests good browsers to them. I mentioned that Opera users will start yelling when they find out they’re not being suggested.

Is Ten Grand Buried Here? No.

Now, there are other mentions from this mayhem too. Microsoft allegedly called Firefox a dull old browser. I haven’t any proof on that, I can’t find those words on anywhere anymore and someone suggested that it was edited out. Doing a google search at the time of this post causes a virused result to come up, that’s not good.

It’s been fun though. Good work Microsoft.

Firefox has an amazing addon called AdBlock Plus. This plugin will make your browsing experience quite different. For example, on Facebook with most applications, you’ll see a column of ads along the right side of the screen. With AdBlock Plus enabled, that sidebar will go away. AdBlock Plus saves you bandwidth and makes your browsing experience better and faster.

There are two other add-ons that backup my Firefox installation and favorites. Xmarks makes my life easier at home and at school. Xmarks syncs my bookmarks and passwords between computers. Once you install it, it asks you to make an account and then uploads your bookmarks (and passwords if you’d like) to their secure servers where it keeps your bookmarks encrypted the entire time unless you allow it to use them for other services. The other add-on that makes my Firefox better is a mouth full, Firefox Environment Backup Extension, or FEBE. This add-on will backup just about every aspect of Firefox that you have set or change. I have it backup all of my other add-ons, their settings and also my customized Firefox settings (about:config level settings). It backs up everything at least once a day, I set it back up every 12 hours.

Finally, an add-on that is new to Firefox is new-tab (sadly there isn’t an official site yet). It doesn’t do anything that exciting however it does add some fancy tools to the regular blank tab. For instance, if you copy an address from a web page, and you use ctrl+t to open an new tab, you can easily run that address through Google Maps with one click with the new-tab add-on. It has other uses too, like having quick links to your frequently visited sites and more contextual actions.

Using only a couple add-ons makes Firefox more useful but keeps it fast. There is nothing worse than a useful browser that is slow.