Praveen P.N » mozilla

Google Chrome, Oops! Did that hurt?

Praveen — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:08:19 +0000

Got back from my friends apartment after watching ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, my twitter stream is overflowing with tweets about Chrome – the browser unleashed by Google a couple of hours ago.
It’s got the oomph factor and the browser is cool (I’m running it on Win XP using Parallels) too.

Download chrome

If you’re looking out for the feature list, you might just go read it here. I’ll try and list some of the things which didn’t work as expected(at least for me).

Corp URL?

I hit the known product issues URL just to check for any document issues. Bling bling, two redirects and boy there you go, I hit some google corp url.

Collect statistics

Collect statistics option is turned on by default, you might just wanna turn this option off for security reasons.

JavaScript console

The JavaScript console looks neat, but only to know that it doesn’t work as I thought it would. It worked only for the first time I launched chrome.

Google gears

Chrome has built in support for gears.

Shortcuts

Enter about:memory in the address bar to see memory used by chrome and other open browsers (if any).
about: will give built information about chrome.

There is a javascript debugger, javascript console and a task manager in the developer section.
With all said, I must say ‘It’s Nice’.

Oh! and this whole new theme change and thingy happened last evening.

Firefox Download Day ‘08

Praveen — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:13:09 +0000

We finally have a date, its 17th June 2008. All you have to do is download firefox on that day and help firefox set a Guinness world record for most downloads of a software in 24 hours. 1,226,933 people from all over the world have pledged to download firefox on the download day. I see only 22, 045 pledges from India. On the fun side, Host a party or find one nearby and enjoy on the download day. As of now there are 537 parties and 3137 party goers.
Add-ons support in firefox 3 is getting better day by day, I hope to see all my favorite add-ons in FF3 by this month end.

Go ahead and fill up the pledge form to get reminders & results of the record attempt.

[tags]mozilla, firefox, download, firefox3 [/tags]

Thunderbird Goof up

Praveen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:45:48 +0000

I’ve got more time than ever before to blog now, simple reason behind it being, I’ve got Internet connection at home in Bangalore. Its an Airtel unlimited 256 Kbps plan for Rs. 799. I’m happy with the speed (net) they offer as well as their service.
Unlike others, I had no hassles in getting the connection.
* Just called up the airtel customer care number (080-41112345, for Bangalore) and placed a request.
* Technician calls up next day morning & gives information about the documents I need to submit.
* I submit the document in the evening & paid Rs. 500 (Rs. 1000 were waived off, some corporate tie up).
* Voila! Next day morning the airtel guys come and setup the connection in a couple of hours.

I’m not yet started on the goof up I did last Friday. Ok, so here we go. I use thunderbird as my default client for e-mail & calendar. I saw one small x on the left side of the thunderbird (above the folder’s section) window. Click on the close button & Boom goes my folder structure.

I spent the next 2-3 hours figuring out how to get the folder structure back. Preferences pane, options menu, config menu, I tried every possible option to restore the folder structure. Tried knocking on #thunderbird , searched thunderbird knowledge base, queried every search engine, but all went in vain.
After about an hours struggle I made up my mind that I would do something on my own rather than searching for answers on the net.
I ended up creating a new thunderbird profile and then imported my calendar data & other add-ons. As the thunderbird punch line says, I reclaimed my inbox. Everything is working as before but still I have no clue about what went wrong that day.

Today morning I was running through the list of add-ons I’m using on thunderbird, and there goes the culprit. I use this add-on called ‘maximize message pane‘ and the close (x) button is an option provided by this add-on. I am using this add-on (and others) ever since I’m using thunderbird, so this feeling is always there that its a default close button provided by thunderbird.
These are the add-ons I use on thunderbird

Lightning – Calendar extension
Maximize Message Pane – Read messages in larger area
Remove Duplicate Messages – The name says it all
Import/Export message filters – very useful while migrating the mailbox

I have listed the firefox extensions I use in a previous post. Some recent additions to the list are Colorzilla, Unplug, User Agent Switcher and Tamper Data.

[tags]mozilla, thunderbird, close, button, goofup, add-ons, firefox[/tags]