Since installing Firefox 3.6.3 I noticed that it kept clearing all login details and every time I started it up and went to a site, I had to re-enter my details which is tedious and annoying. Now I’m one who has Firefox set to clear certain things on close down, and had set these setting via Tools->Clear Recent History… and thought that these were the same settings that would be used when Firefox was closed.
How naïve.
The actual settings for this are found in Tools->Options->Privacy and if you have “Clear history when Firefox closes” checked, like I have, you must then click the “Settings” button. This brings up a different dialog box to the one mentioned above and by default everything has been checked. Uncheck “Cookies”, click “Ok” and all should now work as expected.
Whilst I tend to hold the view if you design a website properly from scratch that you shouldn’t need different CSS, there are occasions when sometimes a minor tweak is required here or there for a particular browser (I’m talking to you Internet Explorer 6) in order for it to display correctly. Or in some cases you may want it to display differently.
If you find yourself in this position, I recommend defining the browser specific CSS definitions in a separate CSS file and using conditional comments.
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I’ve just gone over the site statistics provided by Google Analytics for both my home site (and this blog) iandevlin.com and for my HTML5 site HTML5 Laboratory for a persio of 3 months (from 20th February 2010 to 19th April 2010) and have come up with some interesting facts.
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With the release of Firefox 3.6, one of the things that was promised was a HTML5 parser. Well it’s here, but the it is turned off by default. Here’s how to enable it.
- Type
about:config in your Firefox address bar
- Click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button on the warning message that appears (and make sure you adhere to it!)
- Type
html5.enable into the filter bar at the top of the page
- As you can see it’s currently disabled, so click it to toggle the value to
true
There you go, the Firefox HTML5 parser should now be enabled.
The next question is what does it do…
