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Crazier Like a Fox

I know everyone was looking forward to the release of the new Firebird 0.8, but instead there is no more Firebird. But in a remarkable coincidence, there's a fantastic new browser just released, already at version 0.8 and incridibly similar to Firebird, called Firefox. Yay and, um, yippee.

I can't help but picture it running around chasing a little blue hedgehog. The icon is very much like Tails, except for, ya know, the tails. I wonder if there are plans to rename Thunderbird (incidentally, now version 0.5), to 'speedy blue hedgehog'. I'd use it.

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Tue, 10th Feb 2004 (12:26)

Yes, I'm talking to myself. Scatterbrain will have an easy entry-update feature by its next release, but for now I'm using the comments (sans glorious HTML :-( [I should pretty up those smilies too - a tiny search/replace'd do]).

I installed all of the Firefox extensions that I had downloaded in anticipation of the inevitable benign Denial of Service that texturizer and mozdev always suffer when new versions are released. An unfortunate drawback is that we are advised to restart Firefox after installing an extension. If two extensions are installed in one go there's a chance they'll interfere with each other (a very slim chance, but I didn't want to hose the whole install).

It turns out that the devs have cut FF down to such a tiny and bloatless browser that I can launch it in a time comparable to loading google from the cache. Less than a second. Less than half a second. It's faster to launch than IE loading from memory. Go team.

by Rory

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This piece was posted on Mon, 09th Feb 2004 at 12:22.

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