Archive for July, 2004

Checked into yesterday’s (2004-07-17) aviary (Firefox 1.0) branch: an option to show/display saved passwords. To check it out, grab yesterday’s (2004-07-17) nightly branch build, go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy, and select the Saved Passwords option. Click on View Saved Passwords to see the Password Manager and you’ll see a Show Passwords button at [...]

Checked into the Firefox aviary (codename for Firefox 1.0) branch: fixes for bugs 174265, 173762, and 228862. All bugs with favicons and bookmarks: “Wrong favicons in bookmarks“, “Favicons are forgotten after shutdown“, and “Store icons in bookmarks.html” respectively. All fixed by Vladimir Vukicevic with some clever JavaScript that fetches the favicons from the URL of [...]

Cedric asked for Document-splitting in Web browsers and promptly got it (read the comment by Jeff Mesnil in Cedric’s blog entry). Jeff Mesnil whipped up 2 bookmarklets in the space of less than one and a half hours that allows you to split a browser into 2 frames. How does it do that? It loads [...]

admin=false

In: Web development

15 Jul 2004

TheDailyWTF is great. If you develop or have developed web applications before, you will appreciate this entry: Admin=False.

With the Google Pagerank extension! This is a Firefox 0.9.x compatible extension that adds a Google PageRank widget to the statusbar. it acts exactly as the real googlebar on IE: calculate a checksum, send a request to google.com (with the googlebar User-Agent string), and the reply contains the pagerank. Grab it from installation section or [...]