Ben Griswold on July 9th, 2008

I can’t possibly count the number of times the beautiful “Firefix has stopped working” message has popped up over the past two weeks. 

Sometimes, when the coding gods are smiling down on me, I am lucky enough to get the Restore Session / Start New Session prompt after I “Close program” and relaunch.  The majority of [...]

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Ben Griswold on May 25th, 2008

I ran into a strange case this evening.  Rendered text can not be copied to the clipboard after posting back a page containing an UpdatePanel. 
Here’s a simple use case:

User enters client name and clicks button to request phone number.
Page posts back and displays phone number.
User selects the phone number, CTRL+C and attempted to CTRL+V into [...]

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Ben Griswold on November 6th, 2006

The Windows Live Writer Blog This extension for Firefox isn’t currently compatible with Firefox 2.0.  However, it is possible to get the two to work together if you are willing to manually edit Firefox’s version checking feature.
If you have not installed the Blog This extension yet, follow these steps.

Download the Blog This installer using the link above.
Close Firefox.
Run [...]

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Ben Griswold on September 9th, 2006

There are numerous way one can manage and monitor their favorite blogs. Some choose to have an aggregator such as RSS Bandit running on their desktop. Others may use one of the many online services, such as Bloglines or NewsGator, which are available. Not surprisingly, Firefox provides another option: Live Bookmarks. With Live Bookmarks you [...]

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