I'm really looking forward to the release of Firefox 1.5. One of the things I'm hoping for with this release is faster page rendering. I just fired up Opera 8.5 and I find it to be much faster than Firefox, both to launch and render pages. Scrolling is really fast in Opera. I don't enjoy […]

I recently used the wonderful PHP Apache module for Mac OS X from Mark Liyanage's entropy.ch website. I was very impressed with how easily it upgraded my Mac's default PHP 4 installation. I highly recommend this package for those wanting to run PHP locally on a Mac.
Unfortunately, I'm having problems with getting PHP to […]

I learned about a Gmail vulnerability today from the Web Security Mailing List. The exploit is surprisingly simple, but the result (complete access to any account) is huge. This was patched by Google in October. (Remember when the login screen changed?) It's worth a read.

I haven't been able to login to Gmail using Firefox 1.0.7 on my Mac for over a week. I get past the redirect page, the AJAX "Loading" message shows at top right, then "Done" appears in the status bar, but the page is blank. I have to use Safari to get in. Anyone else in […]