Archive for the ‘Browser’ Category

September 12

Firefox Journal

Posted by Bryan Clark
Filed under Browser, Firefox, Journal | 7 Comments

What is it? Right now it uses Firefox 3.  So you’ll have to download that and try it out.  The download is only 8 megs, so just try it out. We’re taking advantage of Firefox’s new Places system, which is basically storing history, bookmarks, annotations, and tags in a local sqlite database. The Journal takes [...]

September 7

Web Browser Homepage Observations

Posted by Bryan Clark
Filed under Browser, Design | 14 Comments

I’ve been looking over the comments from the earlier Web Browser Homepage post and there were certainly a large number of people who said they were using about:blank, mostly for speed reasons as well as the distraction reason. And some other interesting situations / use cases that people mentioned happening, here’s a quick breakdown. Persistent [...]

September 6

Web Browser Homepage

Posted by Bryan Clark
Filed under Browser | 57 Comments

Does anyone use a homepage for their browser anymore? The homepage seemed like all the rage back in the beginning of the web.  Until IE 7 there was a function in JavasScript you could use, this never worked in Firefox but still lots of sites used it trying to get people to set their site [...]