I’ve been mulling over browsers again lately… some random thoughts follow.
Firefox Beta 3
I tried Firefox 3 Beta 2 for a few days (initial mention), but I’m afraid I’ve had to set it aside. I experimented with enabling assorted extensions but had too many stability issues — and frankly, Firefox without extensions just isn’t all
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I’m a bit disappointed to realize that my trusty (and popular) Quick Firefox Memory tip doesn’t do squat on a Vista machine. What a bummer!
I’m looking for alternatives to that tip if anyone knows of any — a 200+ MB browser that never shrinks just ain’t cool. I recently saw mention of an extension called
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Just to be a contrarian I’ve been using Internet Explorer 7 a lot lately. As part of that, I’ve learned to really enjoy the IE7Pro Add-on. However, since I’ve upgraded to the latest release 1.1, my browser beeps and disappears about once every 3 hours.
Distressing.
Seems like a good day to share some utils and tools.
Disk Defrag — A freebie from the folks at Auslogics. I’ve been using it on a couple of home machines for the past few months and it seems to be working well. The marketing model appears to be to hook you into their
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