Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that the Opera web browser is now completely and totally free. How was Opera able to move from a product whose development was supported by registration fees and ads to a product that is completely freeware? Om Malik suggests that Google Made Opera Browser Free by entering into a lucrative search placement deal with the search giant!
ietab is a vary neat Firefox Extension that allows you to switch between the IE and Firefox rendering engines right within the Firefox browser. Here is how it works. Once installed, when you browse to a page in Firefox, you will notice a small Firefox icon in the status bar. Click on that icon and the page get’s rendered with IE’s rendering engine and the logo changes to the IE logo. I use this all the time now when I’m developing - it’s a real timesaver!
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CSSVista is one of the coolest free products I’ve come across in recent months. It is an application that gives you live CSS editing with Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously! Some of the features include:
I’ve been using Flock for a couple of weeks now and overall I’m impressed with the work they’ve done. It’s a very cool product if you use either Flickr, del.icio.us, or are a blogger. There are some great tools that make this branded version of Firefox worth checking out. What I don’t like about it, is there are not enough good reasons to make me totally switch from Firefox. I do understand that it’s still in very early pre-beta status, so I look forward to further releases as I’m sure it will only get better.
I’ve read other people ask why Flock shouldn’t have just released a series of extensions for Firefox that users could pick and choose from as opposed to forcing people to switch browsers, and I think this strategy makes alot of sense.
For example, one of my favorite features of Flock should be a true Firefox extension. It is the tool that let’s you have collections of bookmarks that you can switch between on the Links toolbar (see image below):
I am a big user of the Links toolbar. I always put links to my active projects and a number of the web-based tools that I regularly use. Problem is that my Links toolbar becomes over crowded and unusable, so I need to delete items. The collection switching feature is great, as I can create different collections for different projects and easily switch between them.
This should be a Firefox feature or extension (maybe there is already one out there that I don’t know about).
Wow – freaking wow! Opera Browser is now Freeware!
In the footsteps of their 24-hour giveaway last month, Opera Software is dropping the banner ads from its Web browser and releasing their software as freeware.
For $29 you can buy premium support that includes:
The Cross Platform Portable Firefox is a version of the Firefox web browser that can be installed on a USB thumbdrive and will work on both the Mac and Windows. The great thing with this tool, is that your history, bookmarks, cache and extensions can be shared between your Mac and PC!
Microsoft has just released a beta of their new IE Developers Toolbar. The toolbar offers many of the features that can be found in the popular Web Developers Toolbar for Firefox.
Too late Microsoft – as a developer, I’ve already switched to Firefox.
Firefox 1.5 Beta has just been released. This next version of the popular open source browser include new features such as…
The Opera Web Browser is celebrating it’s 10-year anniversary with an online party. And what’s a party without party favors! You can now get a free Opera registration code for as long as the party lasts!
UPDATE: The Opera site states that…
Note: For one day only, you can get an ad-free version of Opera. Simply e-mail registerme@opera.com to obtain a registration code. This offer is valid from 12 a.m. Tuesday, August 30 to 12 a.m. Wednesday, August 31 2005 (PDT).
You can do it in Dreamweaver, Word and Excel. The ability to split a document can be a real timesaver when editing or debugging your work. Now there’s a bookmarklet to split HTML document within the browser. It works in Firefox and Safari.
