Why Gmail - Google Reader - Firefox Incompatibilty

Almost every time I tend to browse away from Gmail or access Google Reader, Firefox crashes…

Does anybody know why? I guessing that even Firefox can’t handle the huge Javascript - Ajax scripts that is downloaded when I access these sites…

Firefox 3 Beta Available

Yep, finally you can download the Beat 1 release here

Use Object Literals in Javascript

If you wan truly self contained scripts you should use object literals rather than global functions and variables. This nice tutorial explains it all: http://www.wait-till-i.com/2006/02/16/show-love-to-the-object-literal/

Google Spreadsheets is Down

Yep. Or at least not working for me. Tried in Firefox and IE 7. Same story.  It’s down for quite some time now, 1 hour I think.

About 70 % of my documents that I need to look at very often are on Google Docs. This is why offline programs are still useful, what if you host all your documents online and that service goes down and you need those documents… This is the case with me, I learned my lesson now, I will always keep a backup just in case.

PHP: Working on interesting stuff

Dynamically include different Javascript and CSS files for pages, and only those files that the page requires is an interesting idea to tackle on. I’m currenty writing a PHP script that will do just that + pack all the Javascripts in one big file, compress it, send to the browser and cache it.

The script will be available soon. Stay tuned.

Gmail Version Update

Gmail just updated their application.

As a first look, I immediately noticed the speed of opening a mail. It is very fast. But for some reason it’s incompatible with Firebug, you can switch back to the older version of Gmail by clicking on the link at the top right corner.