Archive for the 'firefox' Category

Firefox performing better on Linux

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

In March, I wrote about Firefox’s woeful performance with some javascript heavy sites. I am happy to say, Firefox is performing much better on these sites now that I have upgraded to Gutsy Gibson and Firefox was upgraded. This contrasts with the fact that Firefox seems to be crashing a lot more on […]

Disable Firebug for Gmail

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Had an interesting message come up while using Gmail - Disable firebug:

The logging of the Ajax calls seems to be slowing Gmail down according to Google, not that I have noticed any performance issues. The interesting thing to me is, how do they know I am using Firebug? I looked at Firefox’s user agent via […]

Firefox + JavaScript + Linux = BAD?

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

It can’t be so, yet it appears to be, at least on my box running Ubuntu Edgy Eft… In trying to use Google Docs, Firefox repeatedly freezes and or takes forever to respond when using spreadsheets online. This could be a problem with the JS on Google Docs, but it runs fine on Firefox […]

Javascript, Tables & InsertBefore

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

I was trying to dynamically add rows to a table and ran into a problem with both Firefox and Internet Explorer. I had a table with a couple rows of data and there was a link to add a new row at the bottom of the table (in its own row).

The javascript simply cloned the […]

Google Analytics & Secure Connections with HTTPS

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

I ran into a small problem with Google Analytics and secure connections. I worked with a company to get a secure certificate installed and noticed that the Google Analytics tracking code placed on the pages was calling a script from http and not https. This raised an alert in Internet Explorer asking if you […]