Oliver Erlewein on December 13th, 2008

This is an update to the post below. I installed Firefox 3.1 beta2 and was surprised that the Send and Discard buttons in Gmail would not work when editing an email. In the Gmail v1.0 layout all would be fine. I searched for the issue but couldn’t find anyone else who had this problem. After [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on December 9th, 2008

Just diligently downloaded the beta 2 of Firefox (Mac OS X). Yes, yes I know…. but I am this way. I test betas of Firefox, CrossoverOffice, WordPress and others. And I do give feedback to these projects. Probably one of the banes of a tester! But I think it’s a little like voting. If you [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on September 2nd, 2008

Google has announced another new tool. It’s called Chrome and is a browser. Why on earth do we need another browser? If they’d do one for Android (their mobile platform) I’d understand – but for OSes?! They use Apple‘s WebKit as a base rendering engine and put some -admittedly good- fluff around it. But what [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on June 20th, 2008

Now that Firefox 3 has officially seen the light of day I wanted to share the most useful add-ons for testers (and developers?) with you. This is definitely not the definite list but I think these are pretty essential. These add-ons make testing web projects so much easier. (Buit in) Page Info gives you a [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on May 30th, 2008

The people who make FireFox want to break the world record for downloads in 24 hrs. The exact date is not known yet but you can pre-register here: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ Be part of it!

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