John Hesch http://www.johnhesch.com Echoing my thoughts and interests Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:37:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en 37.118352-113.598705 Firefox 3 Release Date is June 17 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JohnHesch/~3/310478601/ http://www.johnhesch.com/2008/06/12/firefox-3-release-date-is-june-17/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:37:29 +0000 John http://www.johnhesch.com/2008/06/12/firefox-3-release-date-is-june-17/ Be sure to grab the latest version of Firefox from Mozilla on June 17. This is the fastest and trimmest version yet.

Speed tests are showing a 2-4x improvement over Firefox 2 and 9x over Internet Explorer 7. Memory usage tests measure that Firefox 3 is 2x more efficient than Firefox 2 and 4.7x more efficient than IE7. There’s been a tremendous focus on performance for this release, and an incredible amount of effort has gone in to achieving these numbers.

Field Guide to Firefox 3

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via ComputerWorld

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To fix this I opened a terminal window and ran the following command

metacity --replace

Be sure that you use two dashes together if you need to restore your window controls.

via Asktheadmin

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Today I upgraded to the latest Wordpress and changed the theme. I am going to try to post more often but these days I have been spending most of my time micro-blogging on Twitter. If you tweet on Twitter you can follow me at @boxfan.

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Get notified when an unavailable website starts to work again.

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I needed to replace an element like this

PLAIN TEXT
JavaScript:
  1. $objResponse->addReplace("title", "innerHTML", "<h2>Enter Order Information</h2>", "<h2>Transaction Summary</h2>");

The expected result would be the HTML tag and text,

PLAIN TEXT
HTML:
  1. <h2>Enter Order Information</h2>

would be replaced with

PLAIN TEXT
HTML:
  1. <h2>Transaction Summary</h2>

I just couldn't get it to work. It appears that the problem is with Firefox. I didn't try IE but from what others have said, addReplace works in IE.

I finally had to come up with a workaround because I needed this to work in both IE and FF.

PLAIN TEXT
JavaScript:
  1. $objResponse->addClear("title", "innerHTML");
  2. $objResponse->addAssign("title","innerHTML", "<h2>Transaction Summary</h2>");

Simple, eh?

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Seems like a pretty benign method of spreading spam.

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I'm constantly reminded how much I love Mozilla applications!

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