It’s slow, it’s ugly, it’s buggy, it’s a step backward from v.1.5. I could go on, but I won’t.
Firefox reminds me of today’s Democrats: no identity other than “we’re not the other guys.” It takes more to make a browser good than simply not being IE. And considering the timing of IE7’s release, I consider FF2.0’s utter and complete lameness puzzling. Is anyone paying attention at Mozilla?
If not for extensions like the web developer toolbar, I’d delete Firefox entirely. What a P.O.S.
Back to Camino, I guess.
Update: Of course, I speak from a Mac standpoint only. Perhaps FF2.0 rocks on Windows and Linux. Who knows. On Macs, it’s always been somewhat lacking.
I’m probably the only person alive who remembers A&E’s Short Stories series. I don’t even recall when it was on other than maybe the late 1980s or early 1990s. I can’t even say for sure why I liked the show so much. But whatever it was, I think it may have found a new home with McSweeney’s Wholphin DVD quarterly.
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A few things.
First, if you’re using IE on Windows XP, download this update and install it immediately. Tell all of your friends. Now. I mean it. If I catch any one of you using an old version of IE on Windows XP, only God will be able to save you.
Second, kiss Firefox on Windows bye bye. There is no reason to use Firefox on Windows XP if you can get a (mostly) standards compliant browser that also supports all of the crap web sites out there that are written for IE.
Make no mistake: I hate IE. But more than that, I hate the fact that web sites need to be hacked to work around it. IE7 isn’t perfect, but if it allows me to develop web sites without hacks, I say it’s gold.
(Update: Some web sites barf when they receive the IE7 “user agent string.” Microsoft has a User Agent String Utility 2 download that launches IE7 in a way that makes it look like IE6 to web servers. I strongly recommend downloading it if you’ve switched to IE7.)
I’ve never been all that fond of ancient houses. I can’t explain 100% of why that is. I’m sure there’s something I’m missing about them because so many people swear by them. Perhaps people feel that older homes have no sharp edges, or the smells of decades of pot roast and potatoes that have soaked into the walls make them think of the comforts of childhood. Or perhaps they just like the aesthetics of old homes. I don’t know. And really, I don’t care.
All I know is I don’t like my 80+ year old home. It’s bad enough that Brenda and I have dumped lots of money into restoring chunks of the structure, starting with the roof and not quite ending with the bathroom. And the list of crap that needs fixing continues to lengthen as we await the final death rattle of our sewer lateral. That’s going to be a joy to fix. And cheap, too.
But that’s not the worst of it. What tops the list of reasons to pack up and leave is this: I’m now convinced this house is haunted. (more…)
It tastes like carbonated Pine Sol with just a hint of common house plant.
It’s…special.
In spite of the best efforts of my design professors to fill my time with assignments, I still manage to (defiantly) read books. Screw ‘em, I need balance in my life. And I’m sick of school.
Pffththttthtthhhhh… (more…)
…that Mac OS X 10.4.8 includes a CTRL-scroll zoom feature (hold down CTRL and roll your mouse wheel or do the double-touch drag if you’re on a Macbook)?
Probably not, but I’m going to guess I’m the only guy who cares. I really need a life.
Maybe when school’s out.
