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  • Download Old Versions of Firefox

    To download old or previous versions of Firefox, such as 3.0.2 or earlier, try this (official Mozilla) address: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ This site makes available for download Firefox 2(.0.0.6) up to the latest official release (3.0.3 as of Oct 2008) and nightly builds which contain fixes to bugs up until the previous night. I’m currently having a…

  • Alternative to Safari: Camino Browser

    A good alternative browser to Safari on Mac OS X Leopard is Camino. Camino is based on Mozilla’s Gecko engine, so it operates much like Firefox on Mac, but a hell of a lot quicker. Camino just released version 1.6.1 (May 20, 2008), which fixed stability and security issues from their last major release, 1.6,…

  • How to fix Ajax Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open

    Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method XMLHttpRequest.open FireFox/Mozilla browser fix / solution: Go to address “about:config” in Firefox (i.e. type that in the address bar and hit Enter) Search for “signed” in the filter bar Double click the item “signed.applets.codebase_principal_support” to change its value to “true” Create (or edit if already present) the…

  • Camino – Fastest & Best Browser on Mac OS X Leopard

    Ok, it’s a bit early for me to be describing Camino as the Fastest and Best Browser on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, but at the same time I can’t help but be overjoyed at the prospect of having full keyboard navigation functionality (i.e. searching, finding, clicking/navigating/opening a link purely through the keyboard) with the…

  • Safari Fastest Browser on Mac

    So something that came as a bit of a surprise to me was that on certain sites, Safari is 4-5x faster than Firefox on page rendering.  Recently I’ve been doing lots of work on SalesForce.com and I was thinking: “Man, their site is hella slow”.  After talking with a friend in Paris accessing the same site, but…