Starting 8/1, Google Drops Support for Old Browsers. Are You Still Using IE6 or Firefox 3.5?

According to the latest news on Google’s official blog (see this page), Google plans to stop fully supporting old browsers starting on 8/1. The reason is that these older browsers don’t support the latest technologies well. For example, HTML5 and CSS3 aren’t supported, and they may run JavaScript too slowly. As a result, Google’s services (Gmail, Google Reader, and so on) run into many problems on old browsers, so Google has decided to stop supporting them. ...

June 6, 2011 · 3 min

[Firefox 4] FireSSH: An Add-on for Making SSH Connections Directly from Firefox

If you use a VPS or play with Linux, you're probably no stranger to SSH. It's something every Linux user has to learn. SSH is like remote control, except it's text-based instead of graphical. Normally I use PuTTY for SSH connections. On iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, and so on), I use iSSH. But what about in a browser? With the FireSSH add-on, you can make SSH connections right while you browse, without opening another program~ ...

April 8, 2011 · 1 min

Firefox 4: Six Times Faster Than Firefox 3.6, with a Cleaner Interface!

Firefox 4 has finally joined the ranks of browsers with streamlined interfaces~ Now the three major browsers on the market, Chrome, IE, and Firefox, have all made their interfaces quite minimal. But Firefox was a bit late. A big reason I switched from Firefox to Chrome back then was that Google Chrome’s interface was fresh, stylish, and clean, which made it feel fast (a psychological bonus…). Still, Firefox has many advantages. For example, customizability! Although Chrome can install extensions, Chrome’s extension library is nowhere near the size of Firefox’s, so with Firefox you can do so much more XD ...

April 5, 2011 · 2 min

Firefox 3.5 Final Release: Support for More Web Technologies

Firefox 3.5 is finally out, and I’m rushing to download it XD. The version I’m using right now is still just an RC. So what’s different in this update? ...

July 2, 2009 · 1 min

Subscribing to RSS in Firefox - Read the News While You Browse

Did you know? Firefox has a great feature: you can subscribe to RSS feeds directly, with no add-on needed, and it loads quite fast. I’m not sure when this feature was introduced, I only recently discovered it :: ) Without further ado, here is how to subscribe to a website’s RSS feed with Firefox………………………….

May 27, 2009 · 2 min