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girishmony

654 karma · joined June 14, 2011

Crazy blogger trying to bring latest news about browsers and web applications.
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girishmony··on [dead]
Windows 7 Enterprise edition. I am using workstation in my office. I confirmed this by checking with 2 other colleagues.

I disabled Javascript and the site did not crash my pc.

girishmony··on Ask HN: From Software Testing to Software Development
learning a programming language!
girishmony··on Indian Government to intercept phone calls without operator knowledge
There are chances for misuse also..
girishmony··on Firefox 10.0.2 fixes libpng integer overflow bug
Apologies for my early reply

Actually the link mentioned in the post says this

"An integer overflow in the libpng library can lead to a heap-buffer overflow when decompressing certain PNG images. This leads to a crash, which may be potentially exploitable."

which may be potentially exploitable

that's what is mentioned in the post.

Also check this

http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2012/02/17/mozilla-releases...

Regarding mouse over ads, apologies for not providing a good reading experience. Since the original link is in blue and the ad is in green, I thought it was easily distinguishable. I will look after it.

Thanks for the comment :)

girishmony··on Firefox 10.0.2 fixes libpng integer overflow bug
Great invention! Why don't you appreciate the other information provided?
girishmony··on Will Android Succeed
Moving to the TypePad sign in page not good:(
girishmony··on -webkit isn’t breaking the web. The W3C is.
Got the point :) Thanks for the explanation
girishmony··on -webkit isn’t breaking the web. The W3C is.
I also thinking the same thing. Why there are prefixes in the first place?
girishmony··on Firefox is gone, Chrome is here, who is next?
>>Firefox is gone

I completely disagree with. Yeah its going down in terms of usage. Yet still it is improving and growing.

girishmony··on Microsoft could rule the web – and here is why
A built-in adblocker, alone doesn't ensure the top spot among browsers. If that is the case then Chrome should not have reached this place in browser market. Yeah Chrome too have an adblocker. But Chrome started to gain market share, before even getting an adblocker!
girishmony··on Why Does Work Start At 9 A.M.?
Yes most of the things written in this article is not based on facts. Your guess might be true.
girishmony··on Why Does Work Start At 9 A.M.?
Not all work starts at 9 A.M!
girishmony··on Reddit is down for 12 hours protest SOPA and PIPA.
That is of not much use to the user. By blacking out the whole page, users are now forced to read about the Reddit's stand against SOPA and PIPA which people might miss if Reddit follows your suggestion. Even people ignorant about SOPA and PIPA will read this and get a clear understanding about it
girishmony··on HTML5 version of "Cut The Rope" game is now available
yup. Still needs improvement
girishmony··on Firefox 12 now comes with good looking customize toolbar window
me too! and I am quite surprised to see his comment. Infact some blog posts came explaining why Chrome takes more memory than Firefox
girishmony··on Firefox 12 now comes with good looking customize toolbar window
Firefox somewhat follows Google Chrome in this version increase. If you check Chrome's version you will find the same.
girishmony··on Why you should upgrade to Firefox 6.0.2
yup short and simple
girishmony··on Mozilla unveils new user interface for Firefox for Tablets
Sorry its unintentional. I am not a spammer. I just missed it. Now I have added it. Please check it. Thanks for the notification.
girishmony··on Corporate users we don't care about you - Says Mozilla
Corporate users are many in number and only few is sticking with Firefox. Majority of the people is with IE, especially with IE6 (sigh). May be Asa would have said that
girishmony··on Corporate users we don't care about you - Says Mozilla
As I said in the blog post, there may be solid reasons behind Asa's comment. But its not the way to express it. Am I correct?
girishmony··on Google Chrome now supports print preview
yup
girishmony··on Firefox 5 beta is now upgraded to release candidate
Firefox 5 beta users will be upgraded to release candidate. I am not sure for Firefox 4. On Firefox 5 final release(June 21) Firefox 3.5 users will be auto upgraded to Firefox 3.6. More details here http://www.browsomatic.com/2011/05/mozilla-plans-to-kill-fir...
girishmony··on [dead]
I hope I have covered it more clearly in the article. May be I should look after the headline though.

Also the original article covers Ubuntu in more detail, which is out of scope for this blog.

Thanks for the pointer!

girishmony··on [dead]
Yeah you are right. Privacy remains a concern. If that happens, we will compromise privacy for quality. I like Google Chrome but still privacy remains an issue for me.
girishmony··on [dead]
It's Google Chrome.