With Firefox 2 coming out today, you might be wondering what to do with it next. You got it, but how can you make it better, faster, stronger? I’ve been updating Firefox Facts with launch coverage today, and as always you can expect a lot of extension reviews, themes and much more. To celebrate the launch I also updated the style of the Web site as well. Also, don’t forget to download the free Firefox Facts eBook! No installation of Firefox is complete without it.
Well the browser wars are heating up, so I thought I would give you a little inside information from the front lines of the war.
On the Opera front, they are still being cry babies:
It doesn’t make sense to Lie. “IE 7 comes out and adds tabbed browsing, but Opera has had that for 10 years.” He agreed that ideas should be shared — in fact, said Lie, Opera cooperates with both Mozilla and Apple, which develops its own Safari browser — but he’d like his company to get credit where credit is due.
“Credit is due Opera, and we’d like to see that reflected in market share,” Lie said.
Oh cry me a river!
Opera might have invented the browser tab, but Mozilla perfected it. Want proof? If they hadn’t, my other Web site (and eBook) would have been called Opera Facts.
Internet Explorer 7 launched today as well - and then fell flat on its face again. It is nice to see that Microsoft isn’t feeling the preassure to rise above any occasion.
A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of redirections for URLs with the “mhtml:” URI handler. This can be exploited to access documents served from another web site.
Yes, that is correct. You upgraded to get a security threat. Yippee!
Now Firefox 2 seems to be the only browser that is having any success as of late. They are too busy planning celebration parties to care about what the other two browsers out there are doing.
There are now more than 300 parties registered worldwide!!! If you haven’t signed up to host or attend a Firefox 2 release party, head over to the Firefox Party Tool and do it today. We’ve also got Party Shirts! in the US Mozilla store. We’ll get them up at the international store ASAP. This is a limited run, only 1,000 shirts, and we’re selling them below cost, so get ‘em before they’re gone.
So there you have it, the latest news from the war on browsers. Who’s side are you going to stand with?
One of the few annoyances I have found with Firefox 2.0 is there was no way for me to add Rojo in as my feed reader of choice. By default, if you don’t use one of the recommended ones, you are out of luck for right now. I decided to look around to see if I could find a solution though.
1. The first thing you need to do is go into about:config. Just type “about:config” into your address bar.
2. Now the second thing you need to do is decide which feed reader you are going to replace. I replaced the Google Feed Reader with Rojo.
Now scroll down in about:config till you find the string called:
browser.contentHandlers.types.2.title
Right-click this string and choose “Modify”. Now get rid of the name that is there, and add the name of your new feed reader. (I typed “Rojo” in this box) Then hit “OK”.
3. Next you will need to look a little further down in about:config till you find the string called:
browser.contentHandlers.types.2.uri
Right-click this string and choose “Modify” again. This time you are going to have to change the URL that your service in question uses. In the place where the feed would go, put in “%s”. So for Rojo, I typed this into that box:
http://www.rojo.com/add-subscription?resource=%s
Then hit “OK”.
4. After you get done with that, restart Firefox 2. Go into Tools, then Options, then Feeds. If all goes well, you should see your feed reader of choice replacing the old selection you had. Instead of Google, I now have Rojo. Select your new option, hit “OK” and you are done!
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