September 17, 2004
spread the gospel
I just installed
1.0 preview.
They're having a competition over at spreadfirefox.com to see if they can get 1,000,000 downloads in under 10 days.
As of right now they've passed 500,000 with 8 days left.
I've been preaching Firefox to all of the Windows people I know of late, but with this release I'm just gonna' tell everybody to just download it and delete every other program on their computer.
You'll love it. It has a built in RSS reader, and it lets you (easily) drop pos' feed into your bookmark bar. Now I just check to see the last 20 posts. Same thing with penny-arcade and slashdot, to start. Just go to those sites and hit the RSS button that appears in the status bar. I also just noticed how effing sexy find-as-you-type is. Basically, go to a page, hit ctrl (or command) -F and then start typing.
Enjoy.
There are also a few extensions that you absolutely need in order to complete the experience:
Tab Browser Extensions
All-In-One Gestures
GMail Notifier (if you use gmail)
All it needs is a decent AIM plugin (like the old netscape one) and my internet would be complete.
Excuse me while I search amazong and then ebay using my little search bar up top that comes in my full-featured, standard compliant web browser.
Also, Chris. When I talk to you and you're on the phone, you need to hang up the phone. Don't ever not do that. Especially when it's about Menards.
In other news, the first official Half-Life 2 Release Candidate was sent from Valve to Vivendi Universal. This means that Half-Life 2 is done, and it could go gold soon (this would be a wise decision on VU's part, since Halo 2 will eat up holiday sales like Will eats beer).
UPDATE: Holy shit. I just added IMDB and astalavista to my search bar.
Posted by Ben at September 17, 2004 12:10 AM|
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IF U ♥ FIRECOCKS SO MUCH Y DONT U MARRY IT? Posted by Alex at September 17, 2004 12:08 AM |
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I'LL MARRY IT IN STAR TREK 8. Posted by George Lucas at September 17, 2004 12:13 AM |
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Ok, I switched (actually I did it at work today). I had to figure out the "extentions" thing. Now I have and love it. Oh, Browser War II, how much I look forward to joining the Allies against the evil IE Axis! Posted by Will at September 17, 2004 12:20 AM |
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Oh, and Ben, you need to help me learn how to make a mycroft search tool and stuff like that cause I could see that as super useful, but, alas, I am clueless as to how to proceed. Posted by Will at September 17, 2004 01:05 AM |
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THE INTERNET IS FOR PORN! Posted by Trekkie Monster at September 17, 2004 01:55 AM |
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click on the google icon in the search bar (with the little arrow) and go down to add engines. People have added tons of search engines to the database. I'm going to see this weekend if I can add pos to it. Posted by Ben at September 17, 2004 09:44 AM |
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apparently I can. to alter stuff in your search bar, go to your mozilla firefox installation directory, and then go to search plugins. I just deleted yahooligans that way. Posted by Ben at September 17, 2004 09:50 AM |
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If I ever fucking get my new desktop at work, which will probably be never, I might be able to use Firecocks. See, my current video card is a total pile, so things like the scroll bar don't render in Firecocks, for whatever reason. I also have this problem in Wings3d, where none of the dropdown menus render, nor does the text in the dialog windows. And if I click+drag to try and marquee select, my computer crashes. This is what your tax dollars are spent on. Not 9/11ing like Will seems to think. Posted by Alex at September 17, 2004 10:18 AM |
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So... who came up with the Avenue Q reference? Posted by mel at September 17, 2004 10:46 AM |
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ben, i'm hoping to see if i can make some for the magazines i use at work, for which i doubt anyone else will have made one (though i really could be wrong on that, i don't know how many of these gov't guys are into the open source community). i doubt i would find the thing (i've checked). Posted by Will at September 17, 2004 10:51 AM |
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I made the Q Lazzarus reference, is that what you are talking about? (dances with junk tucked in a suit of human flesh...) Posted by Buffalo Bill at September 17, 2004 10:54 AM |
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Heeyyyyy Buffalo Bill. Who did you kill? Buffalo Bill... Posted by Beatles at September 17, 2004 11:05 AM |
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I'm sorry, hang on... what? Wha-- oh! ::click:: Gee, Boss! Awful sorry Boss! Won't happen again Boss! (goes and buys tech-9 legally). Posted by Chris on the Phone at September 17, 2004 11:26 AM |
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haha ive been using firecocks 4 yers Posted by jack at September 17, 2004 12:17 PM |
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Actually, it's BUNGALO Bill. Get it right, dumbass... Now excuse me, I have to go out tiger hunting with my elephant and gun. Posted by Bungalo Bill at September 17, 2004 02:29 PM |
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I made the Avenue Q comment. Posted by You don't know me at September 17, 2004 02:32 PM |
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Hey, man, maybe we were trying to make a creative statement about our past records. Also, we let Ringo near the keyboard again. We still haven't forgiven him for Yellow Submarine. Posted by Beatles at September 17, 2004 03:35 PM |
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Or maybe you're all dumbasses... Posted by Bungalo Bill at September 17, 2004 09:23 PM |
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Me too. Posted by A vagina at September 19, 2004 11:37 AM |