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Flash Player Still a Pain in the Flesh
If your favorite browser is Firefox, chances are you’ve experienced Flash Hell, perhaps just did not realize what it was: the vicious circle of frozen videos with Flash Player 9, then upgrading to...
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Does Firefox Generate Bogus Crash Reports?
Crashes are bad, reporting them is good: it helps developers fix the issues. So far so good, but lately the Mozilla Crash Reporter appears to be a bit overzelous: it keeps on reporting crashes when...
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Firefox Add-On Site Down: How to Check For Outages
If you’re about to install a Firefox extension, you’re out of luck: The Mozilla add-on site is down. Of course sometimes it’s not the destination, but your connection – so how can you know? A very...
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The InfoWorld 2009 Technology of the Year Awards
InfoWorld announced the winners of the 2009 Technology of the Year Awards in Applications, Middleware, and Data Management: The Awards are presented in a slideshow format, and InfoWorld made it almost...
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Adobe’s Hot Air
Adobe boasts record download and installation numbers for Flash and Air, and Venturebeat claims they are winning the platform race. But are they really “winning”? Some of the software Adobe makes is...
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Take Your Paws Off My System, Microsoft
<rant> I’ve had it. I’m tired of Microsoft programs taking over my computer without permission. This time it’s IE7 – yes, I know, IE8 is out, but I could not care less. In fact I have not...
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Opera Unite: Do You Really Want to Run a Web Server on your Computer?
The little browser that could … was how the Opera browser was often referred to around 1996-98. The best browser packed with innovative features that Internet Explorer and Firefox were forced to copy:...
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Firefox 3.5 Dowload Day Progress – Google Gears, Mozilla Prism Missed Launch
Download Day for Firefox 3.5 is decidedly more understated than 3.0 was. A lot less hype prior to the release, no spectacular outages, and a respectable 1M+ dowloads so far, which is nice, but way...
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The One Huge Issue That Is Going To Kill Tag-based Reading Systems
Louis Gray pointed out a new reading system yesterday called Lazyfeed, and overall I am pretty happy with it, but like all tag based reading systems, spammers and other miscreants have so corrupted the...
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Bing – Google Mashups in Abundance
Congratulations to the WSJ for discovering Bingle, a mashup of Bingle and Google that displays search results side-by-side. It’s really handy, but nothing new and nothing out of ordinary. There’s...
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Mozilla Is Too Big To Fail
Larry Dignan at ZDNetmakes an important point about the financial future of Mozilla Foundation. In his post, he points to Mozilla’s over reliance on Google and wonders if it is good for its future. The...
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When Browsers Are Just as Bad as Your OS
As any good Cloud evangelist worth his salt will tell you, a browser beats operating system hands down for all the usual reasons, e.g. platform agnostic, reduced complexity etc. etc. However, I get the...
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Firefox Upgrade: Who Are You Kidding, Mozilla?
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, than this is a 2000-word post. (Highlights mine). Step 1: Step 2: Do they think it’s funny? CloudAve is sponsored by Salesforce.com and Workday.
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Foxmarks, Xmarks, LastPass, Xpass, LastX, X%^&% Quick Rant
Warning: I think I’m becoming a curmudgeon – except that title has until now been reserved for somebody else . But I still have doubts about the recent transaction: LastPass acquired Xmarks. I really...
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New Relic Tells Us Mac Firefox 4 Beats Windows Chrome 11 In Performance
Image via CrunchBase New Relic (previous CloudAve coverage), the SaaS based application performance monitoring solution provider, recently added a real user monitoring feature as a part of their SaaS...
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Massive Java Update available you should apply it
And you should do this update; Oracle has finally gotten around to pushing a massive 50 vulnerability fixing update to Java. The bad part is that most of us have decoupled Java from our browsers, and...
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