I just installed FF3 yesterday on my work machine, and already I’m hooked. In fact, just a couple hours in the old version 2 have me pining to get it installed here at home.
I love that it actually sends your login information before asking whether or not it should remember your password. I hate it when I would click “yes” only to discover it was an incorrect password, now saved and auto-completing every time I visit a favorite page. Brilliant work.
Ubuntu 7.04 (”Feisty Fawn”) was released last week, and somehow the news of this was enough to push me over the edge. A couple friends (one from real life and one from a forum I frequent) have been beating the drum at me for some time now, so I decided to march to it for a while and see what I think.
So far, I am very impressed. I had stayed away from Linux for years, primarily because I didn’t have nor want to spend the time it would take to tweak everything into submission enough to actually have a complete system for daily use. But I see now that things have definitely improved since the “early days.” (more…)
I finally installed the new versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox today. I’ve been avoiding the update, amid all the grumbling in the web-developing community about how they each overwrite their previous version. I figured it might be a good idea to let the more adventurous folks experiment with options for hacking in parallel installations, before I burned any bridges I didn’t have to. After a lot of poking around, here’s what I was able to find: (more…)