Posts Tagged ‘FireFox’

Warning about FireFox GreaseMonkey plugin

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Swiiftfox fanwork logo

Swiiftfox fanwork logo

I was and still am going to install Greasemonkey plugin for my SwiftFox (optimived version of Firefox, with patches an code optimization for CPU in use).

There are however security issues - some fixed unlless you use old version (in case you have old ccomputer that can’t run veru modern FF) and some are easy to prevent. IF you read the documentiation, and in this case the section “Avoid Common Pitfalls“. Of course reading the whole manual is a good idea.

I may infact intead of regular FF plugins start making Greasemonkey scripts, though that willl require the user to installl Greasemonkey to get my add-on - oh welll, I could think that if he doesn’t then he does not need it - or better yet, maybe he does not even deserve it (tee-hee, I make a joke).

Anyway, have a nice day - I have gone FF add-on mental, pretty soon I will post all add-ons that I installed and yound actually worthy to keep.

FireFox 3 beats Internet Explorer 6

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

fierfoxeatingieOne great milestone for Mozilla FireFox 3 browser and in the battle against the more pathetic dinosaur of the browser world, Internet Explorer, was achieved early this year when FireFox 3 beated Internet Explorer 6 on most used web browsers statistics (at least according to StatCounters statistics).

Currently the lead is however still kept by Internet Explorer with it’s 7th release which is used by approximately 40% of users while FireFox 3 has around 24% of users. Internet Explorer 6 was left behind FireFox 3 with userbase of around 22%.

So despite this milestone Internet Explorer still has strong grasp of users worldwide. However as an example in Finland FireFox 3 is doing even better, having taken a 47% share of all computers in our country and leaving Internet Explorer 7 with only 29% of users we here in Finland are clearly leading the change away from Microsoft controlled browser monopoly (for more detailed statistics of browser use in Finland click here).