Firefox

During the days leading up to the release of Google Chrome, I kept thinking... Oh, No, what's going to happen to Mozilla and Firefox. But after having test driven Chrome for about 2 weeks, I can say for certain that no serious Firefox user will give it up just yet. Google has it's work cut out if it wants to win this war.

With my aging computer, I was barely able to keep 5-6 tabs open using Chrome. With Firefox, I usually have two windows (one for Gmail, Facebook, etc and another one for whatever I am researching) Both windows usually have 6+ tabs open at any given time. Trying to multi-task with Chrome running was a nightmare. Because each tab is a separate process, the browser uses up 100% (or close enough) of my CPU cycles to keep itself alive.

One of the biggest stories circulating the blogospehre today is the 'mistake' that Google made, was to prematurely announce it's release of a browser - known as Google Chrome, which will compete against Firefox, IE and Safari.

For the past few months, I have not been happy with her performance of any of the web-browsers I’ve tried. As more and more sites become Flash, and JavaScript oriented – ala Web 2.0 – the browsers have to adapt to run those at optimum performance.

Firefox

The used DLink 524 that I picked up from usedOttawa for $30 dollars is a pretty good buy. Having used this model before, I knew it was reliable. Decent wireless connectivity, along with all the other regular features like filtering, encryption, VPN and activity logging.

Setting up is a breeze, just plug and play.

One problem that I ran into was of setting up the SSID and enabling wireless encryption.

I love VLC Media Player... It plays almost any type of video and is super lightweight. A while ago I noticed that I was using a fairly old version of the player and decided to update it.

So, during the installation, I noticed the option for Mozilla Plugin. I though, great.. VLC + Firefox... this should be awesome...But not quite.

I remember when animated Gif's where the coolest thing around. They were used everywhere... from a horizontal rule, to icons, to menu buttons to really annoying background animations on the whole webpage.