Firefox 3.5 released – No sign of Yslow or Google Gears

Firefox 3.5 is now available for download and a highly used addon by most developers hasn’t been updated.
Yslow has yet to be updated, neither has CSSViewer. The Web Developer Toolbar and Firebug are both up to date though.
Google Gears is also not available yet, but Google has released another addon for Firefox called Page [...]

Google Chrome annoyances

It has been over a month now since Google released Chrome to the world and quite a few annoyances have appeared over that time.
Closing multiple tabs

The huge flaw that is extremely irritating is no warning of closing multiple tabs.
If you have 10 tabs open and accidentally close the main window at the top right rather [...]

Google Chrome really Safari in disguise?

While enabling Google Gears from within the newly released Google Chrome, I noticed something odd about the wording.
In Firefox and IE, you get the same text:

Make note of the first paragraph. Now if you open up the same javascript window within Google Chrome, you get this:

Once again, note the first paragraph again.  Within Google Chrome [...]

CSSViewer updated for Firefox 3 RC3

CSS Viewer has been updated to work on Firefox 3 which is a welcome relief being probably my second most used development tool behind the web developer toolbar.

As you can see from the screenshot, it isn’t perfect with text out of the box and not aligned in certain places, but still a very helpful tool [...]

[FIX] The image anyimage.jpg cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

I suddenly started getting the following error when ever I tried to view an image by itself within Firefox 2.0.14.
The image “http://www.example.com/button_bg.png” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.
I didn’t know what had caused this as I hadn’t installed any extensions knowingly. This happens for all image files, not just jpg.
The problem was Skype. [...]

Opera accuses Microsoft of anti-competitive behaviour

Microsoft has once more come under fire for allegedly anti-competitive behaviour – this time from software rival Opera. The Norwegian company, which makes an internet browser of the same name, has filed a complaint with European Union officials accusing Microsoft of stifling competition.Opera, which has around 12 million users worldwide, said today that Microsoft had [...]