How to re-enable backspace as back key in Firefox 3.5
While Firefox 3.5 has some good improvements, it’s not all good. We geeks are quite disappointed by the decision to disable the backspace key. In previous versions backspace would take you back a page in history. Which is great when you are on the keyboard already — no need to grab the mouse. But in [...]
3 Aug 09 at 10:59 | browser, firefox, howto | Comments: 4
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Dillo progress
For users of older hardware and fans of light-weight systems, Dillo is probably not an unknown name. It’s a very light-weight web browser. That comes with its limitations, of course. It used to have a GTK1 GUI, which no one in his right mind would use anymore today. But last year Dillo 2.0 was released, [...]
10 Apr 09 at 21:54 | browser, gentoo | Comments: 0
Firefox 3’s improved memory usage
Pavlov.net has an interesting write-up on Firefox 3’s improved memory usage. Looks like I should start testing that beta!
12 Mar 08 at 15:34 | browser, firefox | Comments: 2
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Qt-WebKit browser
Qt 4.4, of which a beta was just released, has the exiting new webkit module (the rendering engine behind Safari, based on KDE’s KHTML). As a demo, one of the developers has made a browser. This could grow into a very interesting project, so I’ll certainly be following it!
6 Mar 08 at 20:39 | browser, qt | Comments: 1