Portable Apps Suite

The following is a link to some portable applications that makes it easy for testing.

http://portableapps.com/suite

IE Tab vs IE View

Many users prefer to use FireFox most of the time but occasionally encounter sites that only work with IE.  For these people they have two options:

IE Tab
IE View

Different Approaches

Both add on allows you to run IE but approaches it differently.  For IETab, it runs within a Firefox Tab but for IE View, it will redirect your page to a new IE Window. 

IE Tab


Running the sites with a IE Tab may not work all the time since some of these websites may have problems launching the pop up Window.    Also IETab will actually send two post to the server (1 from IE and 1 from Firefox).  I found this out by accident while doing some test on one of my applications.

One nice thing about IE Tab since it launches within the tab, it is much cleaner.

IE View

IE View will launch the a separate IE Window  for the sites you want to run in IE.  Problem with this approach is it will keep launching new windows - even though the newer IE can do tabs, so you will end up with many windows.

Since you are running in an actual IE window, you will not have the problem of failure that was described in IE Tab above.

White List

White list is a list of websites you maintain either within IE Tab or IE View.  This list is used to identify sites that should run in IE.  When those sites are used, Firefox will automatically pass the control to either IE Tab or IE View.

To maintain the list in IE Tab, you just need to click on Tools -> IE Tab Options.

In IE View, you need to

• go to the Add-on window (accessed via Tools -> Add On)
• Click on the IE View and then select the Options

One warning, if the site identified in the IE View white list is the default homepage that FireFox will go to when it starts up, you will never ever get to FireFox.  This is because as soon as Firefox starts, it will go to the site and then pass the site to IE after which Firefox will exit.

The workaround is to create a short cut to a website that is not in the whitelist and then change the default home page or remove that site from the white list.

The short cut should contain something like:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" http://www,yahoo.com


Side Note:

I just saw that there is going to be a version of IE Tab for Google Chrome.  Unfortunately, it will only install on Chrome beta.

Downloading Firefox 3.5 for Sun Solaris

The following is a good source for download firefox for both Open Solaris and Sun Solaris:

http://ftp.spnet.net/mozilla/firefox/releases/3.5/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/

The instruction of how to install is available from the sunfreeware site but I had difficulty downloading the actual software:

http://sunfreeware.com/mozilla.html

Note:

Additional instruction found here:

The following is quoted from the entry

first, dont use the tar.gz build, use this instead:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/firefox-3.5.en-US.opensolaris-i386-pkg.bz2

then bunzip2 it, pkgadd it, and then,

pkgadd command is as follows:

pkgadd -d firefox-3.5.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-i386-pkg

to make it kindof replace the default firefox, do this:

pfexec mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox-old
pfexec ln -s /opt/sfw/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

i just did this a couple minutes ago and it worked almost perfectly! i say 'almost' because i lost the java plugin in the process. not hard to fix that though, just make a new symlink. not that ive ever used the java plugin lol.

hope this helps
--joe

Creating properly aligned content in Blogger

The easiest way to create a properly aligned information in Blogger is:

1. Open excel and place the data in table as shown below.
2. Copy and then paste into the compose screen (this only works if you are using FireFox) and there you have it, your data is aligned correct (as shown below).
   

This is how the excel looks like:


Using Firefox:

Date	Mileage	time
1-Jan-08	10	1 hr
2-Jan-08	5	0.5 hr