Further to this week’s column on browsers in the Asian Wall Street Journal/WSJ.com (subscription only) on Firefox and other browsers, check out my directory of browsers for a (by no means complete) list of what’s out there. Here’s the beginnings of a Directory of Firefox related sites: My Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks by Scott… Read More »
I was fortunate to be able to fire off some questions to Ben Goodger, Lead Engineer of Mozilla Firefox by email, for this week’s column on browsers in the Asian Wall Street Journal/WSJ.com (subscription only). Here’s a full transcript of the interview. 1) How different has it been, getting Firefox into shape, than if the… Read More »
Clusty, the new search engine from Vivisimo, has launched a new toolbar for Mozilla’s Firefox. What I like about it is the ClustyClip feature that allows you to right-click on a word and open a matching dictionary or Wikipedia entry in a small pop-up window. Doesn’t always seem to work but it’s neat anyway. An… Read More »
I just received an email from a reader of the column who asked: Ever since the term “Weblog” or “Blog” got coined I have been trying to understand why all the buzz exists. From what I can tell it is simply a web page, made up of one or more authors, discussing a topic in… Read More »
Is there any truth to the buzz that Mozilla Firefox is gaining ground on Internet Explorer? EWeek seems to think so, earlier this month quoting WebSideStory and OneStat.com as saying they have seen about a 1% drop in IE usage. The Ziff Davis logs appear to confirm this. But whichever figures you like of those,… Read More »