XUL/Ajax Roundup
Check out this Firefox Extension for Tabs: Tabbrowser Extensions - outsider reflex (Hat tip to floating space) Looks great, but there is a tradeoff to consider. It’s not very compatible with other extensions. Even the Mozilla Foudnation says not to install it. The next version of Firefox will have a lot of new tabbing features.
Of course, it looks like Firefox is not gonna have 1.1, but will delay until 1.5 comes out, according to this slashdot article. Ah well, my biggest hope/need is XulRunner. Which, incidentally, now has nightly builds available. Also, check out the roadmap for it. I definately can’t wait!
Also, has anyone seen this page? I’m wondering if it works. I’ve got a gig of ram so I’m gonna try it out and see. Could be good if it does. Things seem faster already, but I’m not sure.
Lots of links about the recent Greasemonkey incident over at MozillaZine. Updates are already available for GreaseMonkey. I’ve heard the update disables some features and scripts, but I haven’t had a single problem yet.
Interesting note over at Il Filosofo about RSS and Firefox. I barely use the RSS features in Firefox, but I couldn’t live without them. I really couldn’t at this point. I do most of my RSS feeds thru Thunderbird, with some thru FF. But still, when in IE for one reason or other, I’m missing it almost immediately.
Oh, found a new.com.com article of the 1.1 Firefox Delay. Good Quote.
The next release will now be called Firefox 1.5 as it includes more features than initially planned, Nitot said. “What we have been doing is better than initially planned, so instead of calling it 1.1, we think it deserves the name of 1.5,” Nitot told ZDNet UK.
Good set of links about getting started with XUL/Ajax programming, check it out over at: Be The Monkey, hat tip to code4thought.
Also, just saw this on another blog, apparently Google has more than just the toolbar for FF, they have two other extensions. Hat tip to Usayd Networks for that one. I’ve seen Google Suggest before, but the webpage, not the extension. Looks very cool too.
Some new
PHP/Ajax projects showing up on Freshmeat, although my favorite is still js’o'lait, which, not a PHP app, makes Ajax very easy browser side. Plus the Pear XML-RPC module and your good to go.
Ok, that’s enough for now. Back to work!
By the way, anyone know a good XUL Blog Posting tool that works with Wordpress?
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