Browsers on Web2Generators

How to Check Website Network Requests in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

To see what a website sends and receives, open your browser’s developer tools, choose Network, reload the page, and then use the website while watching the request list. Select a request to inspect its destination and any data sent with it. You do not need to write code or install an extension.

This guide covers the desktop versions of Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Safari. It also explains how to check a tool that says it runs locally in your browser, including the tools on Web2Generators.

The answer as to why Firefox's release cycle is shortened: Mozilla love cakes

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Firefox 4 has finally been released after an amazing number of Beta versions and 2 Release Candidates. It’s about time! And while everyone has its idea on the number of Beta versions needed and how often a major version must be released - some find it reassuring that Firefox has had so many ones when others find it annoying and wish for a shorter release cycle - Mozilla said that Firefox 5 should be available in June 2011 after only 16 weeks of development. And we have been reminded why Mozilla has shortened its release cycle: they want more cakes from the Microsoft Internet Explorer team!

Google is actively pushing Chrome by providing a download link from the home page

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Up until now, the Google home page was meant to be as lite as possible. It only contained one image with the Google logo, some links to other Google tools, services and legal information. But that has changed recently as a new prominent image appeared to publicize the Google Chrome web browser. And this is quite huge as the overall advertisement’s size is almost the same as the biggest element on the Google’s home page: Google’s logo itself!

The Shortest Way to Detect Internet Explorer in Javascript

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Through Ajaxian, the following 12 characters code seems to be the shortest way to detect any version of Internet Explorer, including IE 8. This is the result that came from a comment in a post from the Web Reflection blog. Very interesting!

Biggest 10 Browser-Based Game Sites Ranked

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Gamasutra is running and interesting story about the biggest browser-based game sites where we can learn some pretty amazing numbers measured by ComScore such as “Total player time with browser-based online games increased 42 percent in 2008”… interesting!

“According to its latest study, the online game category has gathered 86 million total visitors as of year’s end, up 27 percent. Americans spent 4.9 percent of their total internet time in 2008 playing online games, says ComScore, who surveyed its large group of Internet users to extrapolate the data. This figure is up notably from 3.7 percent in 2007.”

Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Even though Microsoft promised the final version of Internet Explorer 8 for last year, it is only today that the first release candidate of Internet Explorer 8 is available for public download in 25 languages for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server customers. Changes between Beta 2 include platform completeness, reliability, performance, and compatibility improvements and security enhancements.

Congratulation WebKit for being the first to pass the Acid3 Test

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Not happy to have the fastest JavaScript engine of any web browser thanks to SquirrelFish Extreme, Safari just hit the 100/100 bar of the Acid3 test. “Acid3 is a test page from the Web Standards Project that checks how well a web browser follows certain web standards, especially relating to the DOM and JavaScript”. Congratulations!

“Today we would like to announce that WebKit is the first browser engine to fully pass Acid3. A while back, we posted that we scored 100/100 and matched the reference rendering. Now, thanks to recent speedups in JavaScript, DOM and rendering, we have passed the third condition, smooth animation on reference hardware”.

The (very funny) history of the browser user-agent string

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

If you haven’t read it yet, here is the very funny history of browser user-agent string as narrated by Aaron Andersen of WebAIM. “In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic, and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1), and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing. And behold, then came a new web browser known as “Mozilla”, being short for “Mosaic Killer”, but Mosaic was not amused, so the public name was changed to Netscape, and Netscape called itself Mozilla/1.0 (Win3.1), and there was more rejoicing. And Netscape supported frames, and frames became popular among the people, but Mosaic did not support frames, and so came “user agent sniffing” and to “Mozilla” webmasters sent frames, but to other browsers they sent not frames.”

Google Chrome browser: a step further to the Google Operating System ?

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Google just cleverly announced the imminent release of their first web browser named Google Chrome through a very well done comic book presenting its philosophy and major features. Based on the Webkit rendering engine (KHTML, Safari, Adobe Air…), the upcoming browser clearly focuses on speed and security with isolated browsing tabs and a virtual machine executing the JavaScript, amongst other interesting features which can be discovered in the comic book.

Sensational story or threatening Vista security hole ?

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In what seems to be a sensational / tabloid article inspirationally named Vista’s Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit, Neowin reports that “this week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its knees. Mark Dowd of IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) and Alexander Sotirov, of VMware Inc. have discovered a technique that can be used to bypass all memory protection safeguards that Microsoft built into Windows Vista. These new methods have been used to get around Vista’s Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), Data Execution Prevention (DEP) and other protections by loading malicious content through an active web browser. The researchers were able to load whatever content they wanted into any location they wished on a user’s machine using a variety of scripting languages, such as Java, ActiveX and even .NET objects. This feat was achieved by taking advantage of the way that Internet Explorer (and other browsers) handle active scripting in the Operating System.”

Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000

According to ZDNet, Microsoft Senior Vice President of Online Services and Windows (what a mouthful), Bill Veghte, just told attendees of the Microsoft’s Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM) that Microsoft will release the final version of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 to the Web “later this year”.

“Microsoft has tried its best not to provide a ship target for IE 8 — like most of its Windows client family of products. Company officials did acknowledge last month that a second public beta of IE 8 is due out in August. Microsoft has been warning Web developers to prep for IE 8, which will be more standards-compliant, to prepare now for IE 8 by adding a new tag to their sites to keep them from breaking when viewed with IE 8.”

How to get Cross Browser Compatibility Every Time

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Through WebAppers, here is a nice article on cross browser compatibility from Anthony Short.

“Cross-browser compatibility is one of the most time consuming tasks for any web designer. We’ve seen many different articles over the net describing common problems and fixes. I’ve collated all the information I could find to create some coding conventions for ensuring that your site will work first time in every browser. There are some things you should consider for Safari and Firefox also, and IE isn’t always the culprit for your CSS woes.”