The Anger of Compassion

Browser Notes and News

O'Reilly has released Firefox Hacks: Tips & Tools for Next-Generation Web Browsing, by Nigel McFarlane.

From Brian Burnham's review:

Firefox Hacks covers topics from basic installation of themes and extensions to cross-platform issues and even the creation of themes, extensions and other mods. Firefox Hacks isn't a user's guide. It is the most thorough and best organized collection of Firefox how-to's available.

For example, in just the first hundred pages you'll learn how to migrate profiles between platforms and versions, tear web pages apart with the DOM Inspector, detail security limitations and deploy Firefox on a network. In the next couple hundred pages you'll get into advanced topics like working with XML-RPC, SOAP and other XML technologies, developing applications in Mozilla's XUL and hacking into the core of Firefox itself modifying menus and behavior.

Sounds good to me: I'm using Firefox with Windows XP on my corporate-persona laptop, and on my iMac at Anger of Compassion World Headquarters. A MacMerc.com story on the book's release here. They point out that "[w]hile much if this book appears to be targeted at Windows users escaping the bonds of Internet Explorer, Firefox's key features are cross-platform." They also have a link to a sample chapter.

Meanwhile, we read via MacMinute News that Camino version 0.8.3 has been released.

That, I have to say, is great: I love Camino and I use it on this here iMac. In fact, I'm using Camino to post this entry right now.

Posted by Craig Ceely at April 2, 2005 11:10 PM