Cormac Moylan

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

Entries Tagged as 'Firefox'

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

October 15th, 2007 · 3 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

Check variants between geographical Google results with Google Globe plugin for Firefox

July 15th, 2007 · 5 Comments

It’s a long post title but it pretty much describes what Dave Davis’ Google Globe plugin does.
Dave introduces his plugin as being an
unobtrusive Firefox extension that allows you to see what the Google search results that you are viewing look like from different geographical locations
Google throws up different results based upon your IP address and [...]

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Tags: Firefox · SEO · Software

Google Talk available on Mac via Firefox

March 24th, 2007 · 20 Comments

Yes! Finally it has arrived in some shape or form.
Since my conversion to Apple from the dark overlord that is Microsoft I have missed programs such as Winamp, uTorrent and Google Talk. But Google Talk is now available to me on the Mac via on their recently released Gadgets.
So what does this gadget do? Here [...]

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Tags: Firefox · Google · Software · Technology · Web 2.0

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

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

New Firefox Logo

December 18th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Ah, that’s kinda cute.

If you haven’t already done so…then get firefox.

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Tags: Firefox