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FireFox is the best thing that happened in the browser industry. I am a compassionate FireFox user. However, I do not disregard Internet Explorer at all. As a HTML coder, I find diversity in browsers a blessing. This is because when one browser forgives an error the other browser will display it. Hence, it’s all good!
Here, I want to recommend following FireFox extensions that are helpful to a web developer.
There are ways to make FireFox render pages faster, with just a few easy tweaks. I learnt about this tip through one of our office emails. I tried it and it did make a difference for me.
This is what the email said: To get started, type “about:config” in your FireFox address bar. The settings you’re looking for are:
It is possible to change the scrollbar colors in Internet Explorer (IE). Here is a guide for changing scrollbar colors in Internet Explorer using CSS.
To do so, specify following style in the StyleSheet:
body {
scrollbar-highlight-color: #F00808;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #F5ED07;
scrollbar-arrow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-face-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #2308F0;
scrollbar-track-color: #808080;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #0F600D;
}
This will change the colors for the scrollbar of Internet Explorer browser. (more…)
Have you come across printing error as shown in the screenshot below when trying to print a web page in IE/Win? I did! To view this error, please view this page in IE/Win and then click here and print.
At ECommerce Partners, we are required to code in XHTML and add relevant comments in between the codes to adhere to good coding practice. When the website layout is complex and we want to code the web page in XHTML, then we do have to use floating div’s. Sometimes, all this might give rise to weird problems in Internet Explorer (IE) as seen in the following two screenshots:
