Gordon's Tech

This is what you get when you drag and drop a location field URL onto a rich text editing field from four different browsers (all on XP): ...

Startup times for Firefox are insanely long on all my machines. Same story for my colleagues. Most have switched to Chrome or IE 8 largely b...

Firefox 3.5 can take up to 15 seconds to launch the first time each day I use it at home, but at work it can take, literally, minutes. Disab...

Firefox 3 has been very slow on a single CPU PPC G5 iMac. It quickly pegs my CPU. Happily Safari 4beta has been a great improvement over Saf...

With Firefox 3 a non-admin OS X user cannot uncheck the "update Firefox" advanced option. The checkbox is grayed out. Only admin u...

I found this one via a work colleague. Firefox works pretty well with Sharepoint, but you need to enter your domain credentials every time...

How many web browsers are fully supported clients with Google's web applications? Fewer than most people imagine. Consider this acid tes...

I really like the auto-complete URL feature of Firefox, and nothing beats Firefox's compatibility. Google Chat, for example, works in Fi...

This is a weird bug. I'm surprised it persists. Firefox 3 won't run Add-ons that aren't compatible with it. That's fine, but...

Even after five updates it's not clear that 10.5.5 is a better OS for my iMac G5 than 10.4.11. Leopard is probably optimized for the Int...

I love my Google custom searches , I’ve made a subset of them the “start” page I use on all browsers and platforms . My favorite search e...

Page 8 of the Google Chrome comic is about "placing blame where blame belongs". There's a bit of intensity in this topic. I&#...

[The first time I wrote this I though RTM tasks had no notes. They can have notes when entered from the web UI. I don't think there'...

There are a few features of Internet Explorer I really like. Save as archive for example, which creates a MIME formatted version of a web pa...

Things were going too well with Blogger. It had been months since a real disaster. Heck, I was even using Blogger in Draft (draft.blogger.co...

I'm rewriting this post. Every other post I've written over the past 3-5 days has had problems with lost line breaks. All my text ...

My impression is that for users of the Google tool suite, FF 3 is the best OS X browser. One of the lead engineers explains how that came ...

This morning I watched a brief screencast on FF3 , with a focus on Advanced bookmarking and tagging . It's a terrific screencast. The FF...

Update 8/20/08: See the last update for the new way to do this. I can't get the changes I've made to WLW's rfd file, per Joe Che...

OS X has memory issues, and APIs that don't do anything ... Firefox 3 Memory Usage pavlov.net : ... On Mac, If you look at Activity Moni...