Andy Edinborough

This truly is “embarrassing”.  The Mozilla team really pulled a “Windows ME” with their latest release of Firefox.  After being open for 5 minutes, Firefox with only the “embarrassing” tab open has 26 MB more memory usage than IE8 running for hours with 3 tabs open (including a Bing Map).

LAME!  And what happened to Firebug?!  When I try to inspect a page, the CSS gets completely hosed.  I know the Firebug team has rewritten it to use JetPack, but it looks like they had to rush to get a v3.5 compatible version out in time for Mozilla’s release.

I’m not one to rollback software.  I’m a software junkie—I NEED the latest version.  It is with a heart that I uninstall Firefox v3.5.  I’m slighted enough that I’ll probably go back to v2.0 until this whole mess gets straightened out <weeps bitterly />.

Update:  Firefox v3.5.1 is no better

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A recent article at Slashdot that has now been propagated to TechRepublic, claims that Firefox's biggest vulernability this year is Microsoft.  For those who have not heard, as part of the .NET Framework v3.5 SP1, Microsoft added an extension to Firefox to support Click-Once application deployment.  The claim by Slashdot is that this is Internet Explorer's biggest vulernability and that Microsoft has forced it onto Firefox users.

Having done extensive development in the area, Click-Once deployment does not give the “ability for websites to easily and quietly install software on your PC”.  Click-Once must always be initiated by the user, always displays a dialog, and always requires the user to agree to install the software.  Microsoft didn’t do anything that Firefox doesn’t allow or encourage.  Click-Once is actually very similar to Firefox’s own method for downloading and installing Extensions.

The interesting thing is that the article claims this is… Read More →

Mosso has been in the game of hosting for quite a while now and have become quite popular.  I was amazed to learn when we began migrating one of our projects to them that their URL rewritting rules are incorrect.

In case you didn't know, Mosso provides a platform that supports both ASP.NET and PHP.  ASP.NET requests are sent to an IIS server, and PHP requests are sent to a Linux Apache server--cool idea.  Obviously you have to select a default technology to handle your own URL rewriting scheme, so that pages that don't exist are sent to the proper server. So, ...

     /this-does-not-exist/      --> Your Default Technology
     /this-does-not-exist.aspx  --> Windows IIS / ASP.NET
     /this-does-not-exist.php   --> Linux Apache / PHP

They handle query-strings properly so ...

     /this-does-not-exist.aspx?p=test.php   --> Windows IIS / ASP.NET
     /this-does-not-exist.php?p=test.aspx   --> Linux Apache / PHP

The rub comes in with the way… Read More →

As my first post on my new blog, I'm pleased to say that Microsoft has finally released Bing, a "decision engine" that offers Google real competition.  But did they seriously just release a search-engine product with no Search Provider add-in for Internet Explorer?  Seriously?  This is a huge disappointment; I actually really like Bing.

Ironically, I was able to add Bing as my default search provider to Chrome, and Firefox very easily, but my only option for IE was to set it as my homepage.  I don't want to change my homepage.  I just want to set it as my default search provider...  I could write my own, but I've got to honest, I'm lazy and that sounds like a lot of work.

--- UPDATE ---
I received a tweet back from @bing saying that they're working on it.  I'm sure they want to do something fancy, but something that works… Read More →