Browsers
Navigational search
Navigational search – gaining access to a specific site or page by searching for the actual web address or a portion of it – is common, not just amongst the uninitiated (who you might say do it out of ignorance), but amongst the web savvy. Jeremy Crane at Compete: It’s actually astonishing how often people […]
Weird Firefox behaviour explained
I have just abandoned IE6 at work completely in favour of Firefox, though I’ve been using Firefox at home for some time. I mentioned in a recent post some weird behaviour in Firefox when a duff URL was linked. I now find this in Firefox help which perhaps explains it: By default, if you enter […]
The return of browser wars
First published January 2005 in the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. The application that enables web pages to be viewed and used to process and send information is the web browser. Not only does the browser colour our perception of the web, but as more and more applications are written for use with browsers, it has […]
Browser Wars: Firefox trumps Internet Explorer
Fed up with your browser being hijacked at every turn? This alone is reason enough to switch from Internet Explorer now to Mozilla’s Firefox (formally known as Firebird). It’s a complete browser filled with tons of features. It’s not bloated like IE, and it loads sites more quickly. The interface is simpler and cleaner and […]
