Cormac Moylan

Hi, my name is Cormac and this is my blog. On the web circa July 2006.

Entries Tagged as 'Browsers'

How to do a factory restore to Firefox’s default settings

October 15th, 2007 · 4 Comments

For the past few weeks Firefox has been crawling on my Macbook. It became very unresponsive and it stopped loading web pages. I thought it may be something to do with some minor network issues in work but it the issues remained after our network was sorted out.
I disabled all my extensions and cleared all [...]

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Tags: Browsers · Firefox

John Black ’s Love/Hate Browser Relationship

August 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Earlier today, a post on my Apple Mac Blog about Safari was pinged in an article by John Black. John’s post is titled 5 Things I Love/Hate About 5 Different Browsers and in it je subjectively analyses five pros and five cons of the five major browsers.
IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Camino all come [...]

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Tags: Browsers · Wordpress & Blogs

Introducing the Flock Browser for Mac/Windows/Linux, it’s like Firefox but more socially acceptable….and better!

February 16th, 2007 · 6 Comments

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I would be testing out some new enough browsers. I should have really finished by now but I was lucky enough to get a new Mac in between then so I got thrown off the sent a tad.
So what is Flock?
Flock is a “social [...]

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Tags: Browsers · Firefox · Software

Test Blog post from the Flock browser

January 31st, 2007 · 5 Comments

I hope this works! It looks really cool.
Flock has a feature which allows you to post a blog post via the browser. It supports Wordpress, Blogger and Typepad to name but three. It has a stunning GUI which features a WYSIWYG editor (a lot nicer than the wordpress one anyway), a spell checker, the ability [...]

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Tags: Browsers · Wordpress & Blogs

Testing out some different browsers

January 29th, 2007 · 3 Comments

This week I’m going to be testing out some releavantly unknown browsers. AOL Explorer, Maxthon and Flock are all getting a spin while I leave Opera and Firefox in the garage.
I have been becoming increasingly frustrated with Firefox in recent weeks. It is getting slower, taking up more and more resources, crashing and is just [...]

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Tags: Browsers · Firefox · Microsoft · Uncategorized · Web Development

Irish Spelling Plugin for Firefox 2

October 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

Cad is e Litreoir GealSpell do Mhozilla?
It’s an Irish language plugin for Mozilla written by Kevin Scannell.
Fair play to you Kevin. I installed the Gaelspell plugin for Office on my work PC and I have to say it’s a fablous peice of software. Both in the end result, as in it actually works! And in [...]

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Tags: Browsers · Firefox