When you take your car into the garage you expect certain things. You do not need to explicitly ask for them, nor would you expect them to be actually verbalised. What would you expect? Well, naturally, you would expect your car to be serviced to an acceptable standard. If the tyres need to be pumped, for example, then you would expect them to be pumped to the pressure that … [Read more...] about Experts vs Amateurs – Irish Web Industry
Firefox
Browser / OS Usage
Which browsers are being used and which OS is popular? I'm always interested in this kind of information, but finding a good source for it is far from easy. For my own amusement I thought I'd compare two sites I manage for the year to date. The sites I choose were this one and search.ie and the results are hardly surprising: Mneylon.com Browsers: Mneylon.com Operating … [Read more...] about Browser / OS Usage
Firefox on Ubuntu – Slowing Down?
For the last few days I've been having issues with Firefox on Ubuntu. Browser windows / tabs become unresponsive for no obvious reason until I end up having to restart it... Flock, on the other hand, is quite fast and responsive. Is this a common issue or do I have a buggy or memory hogging plugin installed? I think I'll be removing all the plugins this evening to see what … [Read more...] about Firefox on Ubuntu – Slowing Down?
MSN Adcenter To Support Firefox
The MSN adcenter (sic) should be usable in Firefox as of August 5th. MSN is a business, so they obviously realised that they couldn't alienate users. It still isn't of much use to advertisers interested in targetting Irish MSN users though .... … [Read more...] about MSN Adcenter To Support Firefox
The Broken Web
From time to time I come across website that simply do not work properly in Firefox. In most cases this can cause some degree of irritation, but other times it is extremely frustrating. At present I am researching cars, so I've been working my way through as many of the Irish car sites as possible in order to gauge pricing etc., Unfortunately at least one of the sites that … [Read more...] about The Broken Web