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Reply from James Melvin

James Melvin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:08:59 -0600

Its probally worth looking at http://www.multibrowserviewer.com.

We can test 16 browsers without installing them it also allows screen shots from 45 different os and browser combinations.

Reply from Jerry Carter

Jerry Carter — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:40:41 -0500

Jake,

Unless you need to use a proxy with Firefox, you shouldn't need to use it with Fiddler. It works extremely well for me but is a better as a test bed than anything for the ability to craft a message by hand.

Firebug seems to also provide the measure of net traffic monitoring I usually require - but I'm not sure on it's compatibility status as of this moment with 3.5

Cheers!

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:58:24 -0500

Back to Chris's question about Fiddler. I like Fiddler. It's a bit more geeky/powerful than HTTPWatch, but I prefer the latter as it's only ever one click away (toolbar button in the browser) and is much more elegant.

Fiddler requires messing with proxy setting in Firefox (unless I'm doing something wrong) and, as I use HTTP sniffing all the time, I can't be doing with this extra hassle.

Jake

Reply from Jake Howlett

Jake Howlett — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:42:53 -0500

Gears isn't read only Keith. You read-write to the local SQLite database then, when you're ready, you sync back. However, the sync back has to be written yourself.

Jake

Reply from mdmadph

mdmadph — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:16:12 -0500

Maybe it's just the apps that I happen to code, but I've never found a use for large-scale local storage of any sort. :P I pretty much let the cloud do all of my storage!

I keep thinking all these new local-storage techniques are here about 10 years later than when they could've been useful to me. :\

Reply from Keith

Keith — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:52:57 -0500

I thought Gears was read-only when offline... does it sync back to the data store when reconnected?

Reply from Chris King

Chris King — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:31:43 -0500

I've been using the free fiddler tool instead of paying for HTTPWatch recently. I'd be interested in your thoughts http://fiddler2.com/fiddler2

Reply from Scott Rafferty

Scott Rafferty — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:12:02 -0500

I find this useful. It let's you sandbox all browsers. Ideal for testing and free.

http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/

Reply from Sean Peters

Sean Peters — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:41:55 -0500

Wow, I hope they've thought through the privacy/security aspects of all this. A big database on my local machine that's accessible to the browser? And you thought tracking cookies were bad.

Reply from Jorge Coelho

Jorge Coelho — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:21:58 -0500

Slightly off topic, but have you looked into Mozilla Prism at all? It touts letting the browser act more like a desktop/thick client, which might be a great addition to something like Gears.

http://prism.mozilla.com/

Reply from Henning Heinz

Henning Heinz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:51:26 -0500

Yes, maybe but the downloaded code is less than 10MB, the setup is done within seconds not minutes, it automatically updates itself and it manages all your extensions. The code is based on and uses real open standards. It is true that browsers now start to do things that Lotus Notes has been doing for years. I am thankful that this is happening because IBM (and by the way Microsoft too) decided to move into a different direction.

Reply from Vitor Pereira

Vitor Pereira — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:18:21 -0500

"It looks to me like browsers of the future will all have local databases to use for persistent data across sessions."

You mean they will turn into Notes clients? :)