Posted on August 12, 2010, 8:33 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Faster HTML and CSS: Layout Engine Internals for Web Developers (@GoogleTechTalks) I think I never cared about these – but the way David Baron from Mozilla describes these, I think I will now. The points he was making started seeming so crucial that I jotted them down as if taking notes – something I never [...]
Posted on June 16, 2010, 10:17 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
If you have ever experienced this… …you know how painful it is to debug and rectify. This error was so common that Microsoft created a knowledge base (KB927917) article for this. It even has a dedicated explanation at the IE Blog. The error basically is – “HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container [...]
Posted on April 30, 2010, 11:46 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
I simply couldn’t resist myself from capturing the screen shots of the brand new Addon Manager being developed for Firefox 4 (3.7a5pre). The new UI is slick and feels more like a part of the browser. Here are is a quick screen shot of the Themes section. The Addons section It seems like this is [...]
Posted on October 30, 2009, 9:42 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
So if you are in a same situation as mine, you probably… Are on an MNC’s intranet which is being simultaneously used by a ton of other souls Get pathetic internet speeds, at times – measurable sometimes in BYTES! Even “git pull” takes like ages to complete… Any connection to Twitter is severed before it [...]
Posted on October 3, 2009, 8:45 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Okay, to start off – I really wanted Firefox to come on the top… I’ve been a dedicated firefox user ever since and simply love the product. The fact that it has addons for any conceivable functionality – makes it r0ck even more! However, to my surprise Google’s Chrome beats it hands down when it [...]
Posted on September 24, 2009, 9:54 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Using Minefield – the nightly firefox build – and yet want to use all the available extensions? Even those which are made for FF versions upto 3.5*? Well… The hack is pretty simple. Seems like Mozilla Addons website checks for the User Agent string in request headers to determine if its going to show you [...]