So the Americans finally went to bed, and the Firefox servers are now actually responding to requests without timing out… You can still make it, if you haven’t downloaded Firefox yet, please download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008. That’s 10:00 a.m. in Mountain View, 1:00 p.m. in Toronto, 2:00 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 7:00 p.m. in Copenhagen, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw, 9:00 p.m. in Moscow, and June 19, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. in Beijing and 2:00 a.m. in Tokyo.
One of my favorite tools just went one point oh! - An oh what an upgrade! Firebug went from totally cool, to insanely great - if you haven’t upgaded already then hurry up, if you haven’t installed it, the do it - you won’t regret it! It has even obsoleted a couple of other plugins as you can now do inline editing of CSS and lots of other cool stuff! For users of lesser browsers, there is even a lite version so they can develop with Firebug and use all the cool features on their development site that we can use on any site! Oh… did it forget to mention it is free ?
For a long time I have been using lori - Life of request info with much joy. - Then came Firefox 2.0 … Nice browser, but lori stopped working… :-( Today I really needed it, so I unpacked it and changed the max version from 1.5 to 2.0, and now it works again :-) You can download it here, but I can’t guaranty it won’t blow up you your computer, but it works for me.
It would seem that there really is some intelligent life somewhere… If you are serious about web development, you too would use this browser. The reason? - Firefox has a super cool extention system for which some must have/can’t live without extentions exist. The most notable being these two:
Fear not the solution is near! Download the Mozex extention, it will enable you to edit textareas in your favorite editor. Here is how to do it: On my mac the preference window for this extention is “abit broken” but still usable. Go to the second tab and enter the following in “Text Editor” [cc lang=“bash”]/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate -w %t[/cc] Assign a cool hotkey (I use meta e) and you are done :-)
I have decided to use Firefox as my main browser for a little while
