Archive for September, 2008
Friday, September 26th, 2008
With all the hype generated by the launch of Google Chrome, one couldn't help but wonder whether the world truly needs a new web browser. Two perfectly serviceable products are bundled with the leading operating systems (IE and Safari on Windows and OS X, respectively), and two open source competitors ...
Tags: family, firefox, glubble | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Wending my way through this week's Economist, I came across an article about "non-profit capitalism". (Get it while it's hot, it'll probably end up behind a pay wall soon enough.) Specifically, the article describes the recent IPO filing of a non-profit organization called Do Something:
This imitation of the for-profit IPO ...
Tags: money, mozilla | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Due to overwhelming public outcry (which is how I characterize two requests in the same day), I've updated the version of Prism for Firefox on addons.mozilla.org to the latest 0.2.1 release.
This version is so much better than the old one, it's not even funny. It includes a slew of new ...
Tags: firefox, prism | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I didn't see a compelling reason to switch to Opera when I tried it, so in the interest of fair and balanced coverage, here are 10 reasons why you should use the Opera browser, according to one commentator.
Interview with Aza Raskin (Mozilla's head of user experience) about the future of ...
Tags: bits and bobs, chrome, firefox, gears, ie, microsoft, opera, safari, ubiquity | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 15th, 2008
I posted an update of the Prism for Firefox extension weeks ago, but like an idiot I specified the maximum compatible Firefox version as 3.0. Naturally Firefox 3.0.1 came out shortly afterwards, but somehow I never got around to bumping the version number in the extension (which should have been ...
Tags: firefox, prism | 10 Comments »
Friday, September 12th, 2008
I cannot tell a lie. I hardly used Chrome this week. The problem, as I mentioned when I kicked off this Browser of the Week installment, is that my primary work computer is my Mac Book Air (from which I access my Mac Pro remotely to do development). I don't ...
Tags: botw, chrome | No Comments »
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
I have my Twitter set up to show me all tweets with the word "prism" in them, and over the past few days I've seen a surprising number along the lines of "I'm dumping Prism in favor of Chrome web apps". This is how I first found out how badly ...
Tags: chrome, firefox, prism, ssb | 12 Comments »
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Yep, it's Chrome week and I'm just going to blather on about it through Friday. Today we have a piece by the one-and-only Robert X. Cringely speculating on why Google decided to make Chrome in the first place. (Actually the post is four days old, but I'm perennially behind in ...
Tags: chrome, cringely, google, ie, microsoft | 13 Comments »
Monday, September 8th, 2008
There's much to like about Ted Dziuba's frothy rant in the Register, in which he takes the media to task for overhyping Google's new Chrome browser. I wish I'd coined the brilliant term "Googasm". He says "fuck" a lot, which makes a funny piece even funnier, at least for those ...
Tags: chrome, google, rants, register, windows | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 8th, 2008
As I mentioned last week, Google Chrome is a no-brainer for Browser of the Week, and I've gone ahead and installed it, configuring it as my default browser. The one hitch is that it only runs on Windows, and I am a Mac-only shop. I do have Parallels running on ...
Tags: botw, chrome, google | 15 Comments »