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5+ Years of Using Firefox

Nathan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:46:41 +0000

While reading my RSS feeds today I ran across multiple stories saying today is the 5th anniversary of Firefox 1.0 This got me thinking, I used Firefox before it even had that name. I used it back when it was still called Phoenix. I first started using Phoenix after hearing Leo Laporte say something about it on Call For Help. Yep these were the old days when TechTV was still on the air. Anyways I remember him saying it was portable, and I just happen to have a 128mb USB drive burning a hole in my pocket. By the way, that USB drive cost me $100. I was spending a bunch of time online between classes at the Library at UAH and Phoenix was awesome, it let me have an entire browser on a removable drive. I even remember spending hours playing with extensions when they first came out. Cut to 5+ years later, and I’m still using Firefox at home, work, and on the go. I still have a portable version I keep on a 8gb thumb drive which cost me $12. As some thing changes some stay the same.

News: Firefox turns five

Tags: Firefox, Old Times, School

Google Reader Watcher

Nathan — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:14:31 +0000

I have been using Google Reader for about a year now, and I love it. It is the best web based RSS reader out there. A few months back I ran across a Firefox extension Google Reader Notifier. This had proved to be a great extension for showing how many items were unread in my RSS Reader. Then about a month ago the developer update and broke the extension. It just wasn’t reliable anymore. So I went on a search for a another extension, and what I found was even better. Google Reader Watcher does the same thing but uses SSL for its connection. I must recommend this extension for all Google Reader users.

Google Reader Watcher

Tags: Encryption, Extensions, Firefox, Google, RSS

Firefox 2.0

Nathan — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:24:06 +0000

First I would like to talk about Firefox 2.0 If you haven’t already download it, and you will love it. The new theme is awesome, and the built in spell checking is great for dumb asses like me. It even knows swear words. Anyway after upgrading some of my old extensions no longer worked, so I found new one. Here is a list of the extensions I am using as of now. I use every one of them, and couldn’t live without.

Tags: Extensions, Firefox

Spellbound will work until Firefox 2.0

Nathan — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:06:55 +0000

Well later this month Firefox 2.0 is suppose to be released, and with it comes spell checking. Although I have been using spellbound for months now, built in spell checking would be great also. Anyway, in my resent change to Linux I have had troubles with spellbound. But then I ran across this dev version which after I installed the dictionaries I installed the extension, and everything works better than the older version. So if you just can’t wait till Firefox 2.0 then get this dev version and you are ready to go. w00t!!!

Update: Sorry I had linked to the wrong page. All fixed now

Tags: Extensions, Firefox

Firefox is the Best!

Nathan — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:14:55 +0000

So I have to tell you, I have been a user of Firefox since it was a baby, back in the days it was called Phoenix. Yep back when you didn’t have great and wonderful extensions, back when you could download it and just run it. Firefox has come a long way, in the past few years. It has risen to take the world by storm. I believe the latest statistics I read, was the Firefox was used my about 15% of the people. But I will you thats not good enough. We need to make it higher. So if you don’t use Firefox, you can get it through this link. If you do use Firefox, this link has some good stuff for you.
Visit Download Mozilla Firefox
Also if you visit my Firefox tag, you can see the extension I use.

Have a good day, and remember, IE sucks.

Tags: Extensions, Firefox, Theme

Firefox Bon Echo Beta 1 aka FireFox 2.0

Nathan — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:54:12 +0000

I recently ran across a portable version of Bon Echo, so I am playing with it as my browser at work. I really love all the new things. It has built in spell checking, as well as Google suggest in the search bar. Find as you type is automatically working, and the new theme….well its awesome looking. The only problem I may have is that the Tabbrowser extension I normally use, has issues with Bon Echo. Although of the the best features from that extension is build in Bon Echo. Each tab has a close box. This is great. I do have one suggestions. When clicking on the rss box in the address bar, I am asked what to do. This is wonderful, but what i want to do is set a bookmark as my default rss applications. Because I use my own web based rss reader. Therefore I can just sent an rss feed to that bookmark and it puts the feed in my reader. I feel this beta is going to be awesome. So please check back and see if my thoughts have changed.

Thanks
Nathan

Update 1 — Well my paste and go extension doesn’t work completely. The ctrl-shift-v works but ctrl-shift-s doesn’t seem to past anything into the search bar.

Update 2 — Ok so Bon Echo has crashed, really only once. When I started it back up…guess what…it remembered my open tabs and any info I have on those tabs. Thats pretty cool.

Update 3 — I have noticed that Bon Echo seems to be slow with loading pages, as well as sometimes just timing out right away. But I really think when this becomes 2.0 final, it will be a great browser.

Tags: Firefox

Best of the Interweb 7-5-06

Nathan — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:45:34 +0000

Today instead of a list, and lack of any good news, I am just going to throw some stuff out there. This is a great firefox extension, it make your search thingey bigger as you type. Totally awesome. Anyway, Google updated Google Video to make it feel more like YouTube…who the fuck cares, YouTube is better…The shuttle went off…yay! the really excitement happens when it comes back to earth….Apple gets rid of their last CRT monitor computer…and who the fuck cares. Although this looks pretty cool. Ok Digg just sucks now, because I use Thunderbird as my rss reader, I can’t look at any of the news stories out of any section of Digg except Technology, because I have to log in….hope you 4th was better than mine.

Have a good day.

Tags: Apple, Best Interweb, Digg, Extensions, Firefox, Google, Space