As you might expect, I’ve downloaded and installed this brand new version of Chrome for Linux and I installed on my Ubuntu 64-bit laptop.

The truth is that it caused me a great impression, when I launched google-chrome command, the browser just appeared in a fraction of a second. I though Opera was quite amazing at rendering the browser, but now I think Chrome is even faster.

The next thing I tried is the typing test of ARTypist, and it worked amazingly well. I know it uses internally a lot of javascript, and it all works great.  Even the CSS displays properly well, and since several months ago I haven’t tried to run ARTypist on Chrome

Finally, after visiting another couple of web sites I realized flash worked as well without me having to install any plugin. I don’t know if it has detected the flash plugin was already installed (probably), but it’s great having it working on all pages. At the first sight, it seems the browser seems it’s working well

Right now I’m not planning to change Firefox by Chrome, but at least I can test my webs on Chrome without having to open a virtual machine with Windows.

In order to install Firefox 3.5 in Ubuntu (before Canonical update the official repositories) is as follows:

• First you should add following line in /etc/apt/sources.list (in order to edit this file you will need admin privileges, aka run as root):

  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fta/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

• Then, we should run following command to validate previous repository and make apt-get to work:

  sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0C713DA6

• Finally we install Firefox-3.5 by running following command:

  sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5

• Addicionally you can change the symbolic link at /usr/bin/firefox to refer to /usr/bin/firefox-3.5

That’s it!! Enjoy!

Following there is a list of the basic shortcuts everyone should know. My recommendation is that you practice all those shortcuts you don’t know.

• Ctrl + L: places the cursor on the address bar (you could also use Alt + D)
• Ctrl + K: places the cursor on the search bar (usually for searching things in Google)
• Ctrl + F: find a text on current web page
• Ctrl + R: reload current page (F5 could also be used for this purpose)
• Ctrl + T: open a new blank tab
• Ctrl + W: closes current tab (Ctrl + F4 could also be used)
• Ctrl + Shift + T: opens again the last closed tab  (just to try: press Ctrl+W and then  Ctrl + Shift + T)
• Alt + Enter: this is very useful if you want to open in a new tab what you are typing in the address bar. It will also work if you are selecting a page you already visited in the address bar, and then pressing Alt + Enter.
• Alt + 1/Alt + 2/ …. /Alt + 9: This is one of the basics and most usefuls shortcuts. Access to the tab 1, 2, 3… 9 of the browser, depending on the number you are using (if you don’t knew it, just press Alt + 1 and Alt+2…)
• Press the middle button of the mouse over a link: opens the link in a new tab (this is not a shortcut, but it is really useful).

The following shortcut is basic for developers (like me):

• Ctrl + Shift + R: Forces the browser to reload the whole page, images, stylesheets, …  ignoring the browser caches (really useful sometimes whey you get crazy).

Finally, here there are a couple of useful shortcuts that are not that important:

• Ctrl + Tab: go to the next tab
• Ctrl + Shift + Tab: go to the previous tab
• F11: maximizes the browser to fullscreen (pressing F11 again, will restore the window)

Probably I left some other basic shortucts, if so, please let me know

Links of interest:

• Compilation of hotkeys for several programs
• Most useful Firefox keyboard hotkeys
• The 5 most useful Firefox shortcuts
• Incredible Firefox keyboard shortcuts

According to the CSS3 spec, it should be enough to use the style “border-radius” to set the rounding, unfortunatelly, browsers do not support this style yet

On the other hand, a div with rounded corners could be easily specified for gecko and webkit, just by using “-moz-border-radius” for Firefox 2/3, and “-webkit-border-radius” for the latest (Safari).

After trying this on some browsers I’ve seen that Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Safari 3.1 and Chrome work as expected, while Opera and Internet Explorer (IE6/IE7) have no support for this (natively).

This block of text should appear inside a rounded corner box on Firefox, Safari or Chrome.
If you look at page contents, I haven’t used any javascript or any complex CSS, just:
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;

What I don’t like, is the fact that I haven’t found any way or non-standard attribute for doing this on IE.
Well, what do you think about the rounded corners?