Truth, Computing and Fail

Most of my smarter fellow ‘tech bloggers’ might have already informed you of the Firefox 3 release, the clamor for a world record and their subsequent reviews with lots of eye-candy screenshots and inconsequential shit like how the new smooth, rounded buttons and neater icons make them want to crap in their pants.

This is coming from a user who made the jump straight from v2.0.0.14 to v3 with only a couple of times of using the beta versions that were released over the past 2 months. As you type in the address bar, as I had already noted in the beta versions, FF takes a dictionary based indexing approach to the page titles in addition to the standard indexing on URL. This is much better when you remember the context of a page you visited but not the URL. The memory load is significantly lower than the previous version as a quick qualitative analysis of the processes currently running shows. The drop down choices in the input boxes have a quick, jumpy fade out effect which, well, could be improved. It looks cheesy. The bookmarks toolbar has a ‘most visited’ folder. I haven’t yet uninstalled v2 as I’d like to make a better comparison between the two.

I enjoyed the live stream the Mozilla team put up at air.mozilla.com

Oh, btw, if you still don’t know the link, here it is (only for linux distros). Hopefully changing os=windows in the URL would be good for you dowze boys.

P.S.: It has been raining here for 32 hours non-stop and it is sickening. I haven’t been able to step out of the house. Hence the trollish behavior.