Tittle-Tattle

Today I upgraded my home PC to Ubuntu 8.4 LTS. Almost a month after it was first released . And I am pleasantly surprised to see that they have packaged it with FF3b5 . I like change and this change indeed impressed me. I have been using FF3b5 for some time but never expected it to be packaged with a stable desktop operating system. Actually before upgrading from Ubuntu 7 I was wondering which FF version they will provide in 8.4 LTS as FF3 is almost getting finalized . I am yet to get the feel of this new version but from the first impressions I find it a bit sharper than the previous version. The desktop effects are smoother given that I was facing GUI freeze problems just before the upgrade. I see the search feature pre-configured on the top panel, somehow I fail to recall if it was there earlier. I never used it even if it was there. I will have to reconfigure Automatix as the current one says it works only with Ubuntu 7. Lets see, more updates as I use it more... My Windows XP i...

There was this discussion ( flame war ) going on Firefox and IE and Firefox Myths at our internal blogsite. This made me ponder on why I moved away from IE. Below is an extract from my comment there - ****************************** I was trying to recollect what all those things were which led me away from IE way back - 1) Pop problems - boom boom boom, click one link and get four more windows as free gifts. There was no sign of any effort in pop up blocking in IE for a long time, one is free to feel good about it now when they finally woke up. 2) Multiple windows opened when you wanted to open many links in google results, cluttering your task bar - tabbed browsing (no signs of tabbed browsing were there in IE till last year I guess and when they introduced it with MSN toolbar, it was very heavy and totally unusable, I was laughing when I saw how innocently they have talked about it in that "Firefox myth" page). Tabbed browsing has been a breeze in both Opera and Firefox fo...

Found this from digg . If you are using Firefox 2.0 beta 1 and your extensions of Firefox 1.5 are not working. Try this addon as they call them now. It is working for me, though I had to see a few Firefox core dumps (on windows) and switch between 2.0b1 and 1.5 to disable a few extensions. Its finally working. Enjoy! ~mks

Check this out. It says Firefox share has increased to 26% and just a few days ago I thought its just 10-11%. IE is the topmost anyway with 67% share. As per the website the information is collected like this - This report is based on an analysis of the last 25,000 page views to each website tracked by W3Counter, not including the W3Counter website itself. Distinct visits are identified, and only those taking place in the last 30 days are used. This information is free for your use with appropriate attribution to W3Counter.com. That's good news for firefox supporters. ~mks