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Refreshing Your Firefox Profile

I’m a big fan of Firefox, and it’s been my main web browser for as long as I can remember. Partly because it’s pretty good with web standards, and partly because of its huge range of plugins – in particular a plugin called Adblock Plus which stops most banner and Google adverts from showing [...]

Google Chrome

Anyone not living under a rock this past week will know that Google have released an early beta of their own browser, Chrome.
Now that they’ve improved the EULA, I’ve installed it, and it seems reasonable. Definitely a bit rough around the edges – it is a beta, after all – but pretty fast, and [...]

IE7 Non-Standard Event Handlers

Recently I had a problem where, when using IE7 (a rare occurrence and only ever for testing purposes) an XHTML ‘SELECT’ element would not open properly. On first click it merely took focus, and it would only open with another click. On Firefox, needless to say, everything was perfectly fine.
Further investigation with a [...]