According to Microsoft's own stats, Internet Explorer 6 still accounts for more than 20% of web browser usage within China. Around a quarter of our 4,500 international students are Chinese (source PDF) and so we've always been really hesistant about switching o...

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Android phone Android tablet iPod touch iPhone iPad 2 x laptop (Windows Vista) desktop (Ubuntu) TV (Samsung) The browser in my Nintendo DSlite and 3DS is Opera. I don’t use the desktop version of Google Talk, nor Windows Media Player so my most frequent exposure to Trident is probably via Skype. I almost f...

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Things I have learned from the AMA with three Chrome devs: about:flags – “Enable better omnibox history matching” (gives you awesomebar-like features, dev channel only)

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In Python, you can do this: import webbrowser webbrowser.open_new(<a href="http://philwilson.org/blog">http://philwilson.org/blog</a>) and lo! it will open your default browser at that URL whether you are on Windows, Linux or Mac. I can’t find the same functiona...

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I love using the Optimoz mouse gestures extension for Firefox: hold down the right-mouse button and drag left or right to move backwards or forwards in your browsing history. There are also other motions for other actions, but back and forward are about 99% of my usage. This is also

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The URIid extension for Mozilla and Firefox (via asa) lets you assign per-site CSS styles. This is amazing. Couple this with the very useful Chromedit and you have an easy-as-pie all-in-one solution for making s...

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I’m a web developer and I test stuff locally, hence a lot of the time I’m looking at http://localhost. I use Firebird as my default browser, which has keyword searching built into the address bar, so every time I go to localhost and my web app server is not running I get thrown to the highly classy http://www.localhost.com.au. Fortunately this can be disabled. Type “about:co...

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The completely unbiased Mozilla Firebird Browser Comparison Chart (via Cheah Chu Yeow )

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Refresh your browser Because I’m moving to a new design, and it probably doesn’t work properly yet. Most of the links are probably broken too. Joy! hmmm…on second thought – perhaps the day before I go to Rome for a week isn’t the best time to be doing this. 🙂

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