Firefox on Lin's Blog

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

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:31:14 +0000

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.

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

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:00:40 +0000

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~

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

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:29:21 +0000

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

Firefox 3.5 Final Release: Support for More Web Technologies

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:19:14 +0000

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?

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

Wed, 27 May 2009 20:19:32 +0000

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………………………….