Monthly Archives: February 2009

Wizz RSS 3.0.0.9 (Beta) for Firefox 3.1b2 updated

February 16, 2009
By Mike

I have just finished updating Wizz RSS 3.0.0.9, the beta for Firefox 3.1b2, and this is what has changed: - I have included the preview.css submitted by Peter Lairo, so the feed preview page has changed a little bit. As per the request by Tim Banker I have removed all of the hardcoded styling,...

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Wizz RSS online help needs help!

February 12, 2009
By Mike

Back in March 2008 (Almost a year ago) I decided to move the Wizz RSS online help into a Wiki. The move was motivated by two different factors: - The fact that over the years I have spent countless hours maintaining online help that many people refuse to read. The fact that many of...

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Are Firefox worker threads worthless?

February 8, 2009
By Mike

It was with some excitement that I recently learned about worker thread support in Firefox 3.1. For many years I have whined about JavaScript’s inability to spawn threads, so when I heard the news I immediately started thinking about moving all of the resource hogging code of Wizz RSS into worker threads. A few...

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