Works with Firefox !!

We keep hearing that lot of important sites do not work with Firefox e.g.

1. Rohit Srivastava is Frustrated
2. During the Breakfast with Mozilla event that took place in Pune on February 15th, Arun made a remark that several web developers still develop for IE 6 (which was released around 2000, eight years ago)

While that may have been correct a while ago, I’m sure that things are improving. Since I switched full time to Ubuntu few weeks ago, I had no choice but to use Firefox (considering there is no IE on Linux – Not sure if IE works under Wine) and I am glad to say that I had no issues what so ever. I’m using Firefox 3.0.5, as well as Firefox 3.1Beta 2 on Ubuntu 8.10 (if it matters)

I’m listing the websites that I know work with Firefox, in the hope that this would help more and more people to switch to Firefox.

• Online Banking (India)
  1. HDFC Bank
  2. ICICI
  3. Citibank
  4. Axis Bank (Thanks to @shantanoo)
• Online Banking (US)
  1. Wells Fargo
• Online Trading
  1. E-Trade – A leader in Online trading and Investing
• Localized Contents
  1. Marathi
     1. Leading Marathi newspaper – eSakal (While developed in ASP, it works, and works well in Firefox)
     2. Pune Pratibimb – Sakaal newpaper’s marathi blog
     3. Maharashtra Times : Marathi Newspaper by India Times
     4. Dainik Aikya
     5. Website Dedicated to famous marathi playwright – ??. ?.
  2. Gujarathi
     1. Nobat : Online Newspaper
     2. Lokprabha Newsline : Online Newspaper
     3. Divya Bhaskar : Online Newspaper
  3. Bengali
     1. Bangla Daily News : Online Newspaper
  4. Oriya
     1. Dharitri : Online News in Oriya
  5. Hindi
     1. Navbharat Times
  6. Nepali (Script is Devnagari)
     1. Himgiri News

Sure everyone knows Firefox is (relatively) secure compared to IE. But if folks can’t get their work done, they WILL continue to use IE. So in order to show them that indeed more and more websites work with Firefox without any issues, I started this list.  Obviously, this list is far from complete. But with your support, we can make this better, in the hopes that users do not have the option of not-using Firefox, just because their favorite website doesn’t work with firefox.

If you are not using Firefox yourself, please click on the button on the right to download Firefox right now !!

Please leave comments with URLs that you know work with Firefox.

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Access your todo list from multiple locations

Here is a clever method to access your todo list from multiple locations.

Ingredients

• todo.sh – This is a command line shell scripts which allows to manage your TO DO list
• DropBox Account : Free, Syncs various computers, Cross Platform (at least works on Windows as well as Linux)

Recipe

• Make Sure you have installed Dropbox clients on all of your machines (Mainly Work and Home)
• Download and install todo.sh in your Dropbox folder. This is main trick to make your TODO list portable.
• You need to modify the .todo file (or todo.py script itself) to set the TODO_DIR variable. I’ve created a folder called “tododir” in my Dropbox folder, and set the TODO_DIR variable as “tododir”. This helps avoiding path problems on various machines.
• (Optional) Read the tutorial available at LifeHacker
• Open command Prompt, and take charge of your TODO lists.

Why This Idea Rocks

• Since the todo list is maintained as simple text file, any machine/platform allows you to directly view and edit your todo list.
• While one would install Dropbox clients on all of their regularly used machines, You can always view and edit your todo.txt even from a cyber cafe, using Dropbox’s web interface.

Are you on Windows ?

• If you are on Windows, you will require cygwin which provides unix utilities on windows. (I was unable to get todo.sh working with mSys, which I got as part of mSys Git (More about it later, in another post))
• There is a variation of todo.sh written in Python (which is what I’m using these days). If which case, you need Python instead of Cygwin. Python version supports color coding of the items based on priority even on Windows.

Can I not just use USB Drive instead ?

• Sure you can.  But some employers do not allow the employees to connect their personal USB devices to office computers. (Security, Virus threats) in which case Dropbox is better alternative.
• Even Cyber cafe won’t allow to plug in your USB drive, but you sure can access your files from Web Front end of Dropbox.

QEMU

I’ve been trying to get all the information that I would need to create my own version similar to DevelopGo.

• I have already downloaded knoppix 3.9 LiveCD ISO image.
• I have got hold of the Remastering Howto , and now all ready to go ahead with my changes.

While I was doing this research, I came across an invaluable tool called qemu. This is open source CPU and system emulator. Without going into too many details about QEMU (which I’m sure you can find out from google) what I want to stress is how easy it is to use.

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