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How to edit a website – cut &paste one line of code to make any site editable

Posted by Alex on 8 Jul, 2008 in My Stream | 0 comments

http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/cut-and-paste-one-line-of-code-to-make-any-website-editable/

sneaky… how to easily edit other websites!!

Gmail misbehaving in Firefox 3 on Leopard

Posted by Alex on 7 Jul, 2008 in Geeky Stuff | 3 comments

How to get back your lost GMail features on Firefox 3 on OS X

Having become more and more aware of how slow and bloated Firefox 2 had become, and having downloaded Firefox 3 on my Windows laptop at work and noticed a definite improvement in load time and CPU usage, I decided to follow suit and install Firefox 3 on my Mac Mini at home which is running OS X Leopard.

It worked fine for a while, then today something strange happened – I clicked my usual GMail link on the toolbar and found myself presented with the HTML only view of GMail and a big flash saying “For a better Google Mail experience use a fully supported browser”.. wtf? Why would GMail not support Firefox 3?

I checked the provided link and confirmed that yes, GMail does support all versions of Firefox after 2.0. I clicked the “Mac” link on that very page and was told by Firefox’s download page that “Mac OS 9 and earlier versions not supported”. Since that page detects your system to give you the appropriate link, this suggests something is reporting my system as pre-OS X, and that is stopping Firefox and GMail from thinking they can support my operating system… How very bizarre.