Have you ever heard of the Acid test for browsers?
Acid 2 is the worst case senario to test web standards compliance. Looking at the source code, it’s by far one of the most convoluted (yet perfectly web compliant) pages I’ve ever seen. I was digging around the Mozilla ftp site and found a really old version of Firefox, called Phoenix and snagged that as well as Firebird.
Phoenix begot Firebird, and Firebird begot Firefox – the browser we all know and love.
Let’s take a look at the results:
Alrighty, so I switched operating systems – again, this time I’m trying out Debian 4.0r1 aka “Etch” after deciding that Zenwalk is for metro-sexuals. First things first right? Gotta get my YouTube working, Firefox Plugins installed, etc.
The following guys made this possible: DIP Consultants and Weiqi Gao.
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First things first, as root:
If you’re looking to install Flash in a 64-bit browser:
The underlined bit is my contribution, for some reason it does not exist by default, probably since the switch to Iceweasel. Honestly I don’t get the point of changing the name and stripping the logos from the browser, everybody knows that Mozilla is NOT going to start charging people for use of their trademark logos. Google would have a hay day and clean some house at Mozilla Foundation.
Damn Debian and their “Social Contract.” It’s silly if you ask me.
On a side note, I did goto the screening of Pirates of the Great Salt Lake tonight, and I thought it was a smart and funny movie that doesn’t have any blazingly obvious flaws. I rate it 4.5 out of 5 “ARRRGS”
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I remembered awhile back that I had installed a plugin for the Steam forums that gave me a little menu item up at the top inbetween Tools and Help in Firefox that allowed easy navigation of the Steam forums. I thought about it for a bit and thought,
“Hey! Why not make one of those for the Ubuntu forums?”
Well thankfully someone else already has. I present to you, the Ubuntu Forums Menu for Firefox. If you don’t have Firefox already, click the button below and install it today!
Install and then goto the Addons settings in Firefox. Click Preferences:
Check the appropriate boxes:
Menu at the top:
Right Click Context Menu:
This is an “insanely great” plugin. Kudos to Adam Smith.
Firefox has been my browser of choice for several years, and prior to that, I first came in contact with the technology that runs behind the browser, called the Gecko Renderer in early 1998. The thing that impressed me the most back then was how much FASTER the Gecko engine rendered pages as compared to Internet Explorer on a dial-up connection.
Here’s a short list of reasons why Firefox will help you if you ever decide to try out or switch to Linux (or Mac OSX for that matter).
If you don’t think these reasons are enough, humor me and try it out. I bet you’ll love the tabbed browsing and lack of advertisements when using Adblock Plus, which gets rid of nearly all ads out there. It’s terrific and no more annoying talking ads!
I’ve gone though my website logs to see just what kind of visitors I’ve had in the last few days. I’ve received well over 2000 page views over the entirety of my blog, with a majority of those being referred from the Linux section in Digg, where I submit most of my articles.
But this part is what is so puzzling – 46% of unique visitors to my website in the past few days are using Windows. It goes something like this:
1. Windows 46.10% 
2. Linux 44.96%
3. Macintosh 7.23%
4. Other 1.71%
“Interesting information,” you’re saying, “but why do I care?” I’ll tell you why. I only write about Linux here.
However, Internet Explorer users alone account for 300% more traffic than any of the other browsers. That’s a aneurysm waiting to happen for Microsoft!