I just downloaded Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and installed it on all my computers. The first thing I noticed was the tabs had a different look to them compared to Firefox 1.x. It has a glass like appearance very similar to how Windows Vista is going to look when it’s finally released. Another thing I noticed is that each tab has its own close button instead of one close tab button to close the currently selected tab.
I was getting caught up on Digg.com and came across an extension for Firefox that allows anyone to sync your browser settings across multiple computers.
Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.
I just think this is awesome. It’ll help me keep the same bookmarks on all 5 computers (home PC, home Mac, home laptop, work laptop, and work PC) and the copy of Firefox that I have on my SanDisk U3 USB Drive.
Looking over the stats on my sites, I have noticed that over 50% of the people that come here use Internet Explorer. I have installed the Spread Firefox plugin to pop up an alert bar when someone views this site with IE, and only IE. If you view the site with any other browser, the alert bar won’t show. I did this in an attempt to educate people how inferior IE is as a web browser and that there are other options out there that are safer to use. The link in the alert bar takes the person to a site where they can download Firefox but they can also download Opera, Flock, or Netscape as a web browser. Any of those are better choices than that damn blue e.
The Mozilla Organization has released the latest update to my favorite browser, Firefox. The latest version fixes a few security holes and is still a lot safer than Internet Explorer.
Opera 8.0 was released today. It has a new look to it but not drastic. It still has tabbed browsing just like every other browser that’s not Internet Explorer. It has full support for GMail and it is the first browser with voice support (meaning you can browse the web using spoken commands). It is also the first browser to natively support Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files. One cool thing I noticed about the new Opera was the blue RSS graphic in the address bar when you’re visiting a site with an RSS feed. It’s similar to the orange symbol you get in Firefox.
