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Geekiness abounds.
Jul. 9th, 2004 10:12 pmMan, I am seriously slacking off on the LJ updating side of things.
But I was informed a couple of days ago by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
asghar that it's time for a geeky entry. So here goes.
Cool discovery of the week is clevercactus, ( which I now will ramble about... )
It's getting pretty obvious to me that Mozilla and Firefox are on the verge of exploding. Good thing the Fox is near 1.0....
Just a couple of releases ago, unless you knew where to look, the most you'd hear about any of it was maybe a PC World blurb or something along those lines paraphrasing the press release a day or two after it came out. Now there's rather a lot on the subject available, including some pretty massive wins thanks to Microsoft (of course, there are still the ones that offer mostly backhanded compliments).
It seems like half my friends list have at least picked the browser up in the last couple of weeks (where have you all been? ;)), which is very awesome as well.
Even my dad, who was suspicious of this weird thing I'd installed on their computer last summer (my mom needed spam filtering badly, and she liked and was used to Netscape, so I installed the full suite for them) was asking me about it. (After Mozilla got made not the default browser anymore, the bastardized branded IE-based browser that came with our SBC Yahoo DSL took over the position apparently, and in the end it was driving him insane. ;))
For those of you just picking it up, or thinking about it, here's a really nice, very simple basic introduction to Firefox.
There's also a patch that you'll all want to install on Windows to fix a little security vulnerability. (Really little. If you notice, the patch is 1 KB.)
And since I'm feeling super longwinded tonight, an ( extension roundup... )
But I was informed a couple of days ago by
asghar that it's time for a geeky entry. So here goes.Cool discovery of the week is clevercactus, ( which I now will ramble about... )
It's getting pretty obvious to me that Mozilla and Firefox are on the verge of exploding. Good thing the Fox is near 1.0....
Just a couple of releases ago, unless you knew where to look, the most you'd hear about any of it was maybe a PC World blurb or something along those lines paraphrasing the press release a day or two after it came out. Now there's rather a lot on the subject available, including some pretty massive wins thanks to Microsoft (of course, there are still the ones that offer mostly backhanded compliments).
It seems like half my friends list have at least picked the browser up in the last couple of weeks (where have you all been? ;)), which is very awesome as well.
Even my dad, who was suspicious of this weird thing I'd installed on their computer last summer (my mom needed spam filtering badly, and she liked and was used to Netscape, so I installed the full suite for them) was asking me about it. (After Mozilla got made not the default browser anymore, the bastardized branded IE-based browser that came with our SBC Yahoo DSL took over the position apparently, and in the end it was driving him insane. ;))
For those of you just picking it up, or thinking about it, here's a really nice, very simple basic introduction to Firefox.
There's also a patch that you'll all want to install on Windows to fix a little security vulnerability. (Really little. If you notice, the patch is 1 KB.)
And since I'm feeling super longwinded tonight, an ( extension roundup... )
