The Fox of a Hundred Tails (Tabbrowser revived!!!)

There are a japanese folktales about magical Foxs, they grow a new tail for every hundred years, the number of tails is then a symbol of their age, wisdom and power.

The Mozilla FireFox browser has a similar feature, it can grow many tabs, you probably know that already, what you should know is that to make the tabs REALLY cool you need something known as the TBE or the Tabbrowser Extension, an extension is like plug-in or ad-on, but is completely integrated and ads features that makes us sure that Xul is at pair with Gtk+.

In other words, uber cool interface features like taking a tab from a window and droping it in another windows and such, very plastic and nice, can you say C.U.S.T.O.M.I.Z.A.T.I.O.N? this beauty has it all, it is the canonical "Should be there by default" extension, go get it as soon as you can ^^!

My firePETfox and I (New browser release)

Well firefox is almost at the one milestone with this 0.9 version and the question is... what's new?

Well, the browser feels faster in overall. The new theme is borning but that's ok since it is supposed to prevent cultural-shock for new users. For those who need an sleeker look there is the new theme manager.

This is not a real change, since it only means that now to switch themes you don't go
Tools>Options>Themes Now you just go Tools>Themes.

The other new kid in the neighborhood is the extension manager wich like the themes manager is in the tools menu.

The extension manager does look good, but it is a step back in usability, buttons are just too big and you have to scroll even more. What they got right is that now you can ask extensions to upgrade themselves and there's the prototype version of the novel uninstall extension feature.

Probably the most obvious difference is the extensions room in firefox's page, wich has become more beginner-friendly, but just a little less poweruser-friendly. The missing extension that inmediatly shine by it's absence is the tabbrowser extension by piro.

Piro, if you're reading this (wich you are not)! please release it for 0.9! Thousands upon thousands of souls vry for your fine craft!

Overall, it is a great upgrade but if you have heavily moded your FF instalation or are very fond of the tabbrowser extensions, stick with 0.8 until they are released.

June 04 Update (About: E-Mail)

So I've neglected you to no end my blog.

As much as I'd like to write here a lot I often get distracted.

The point is that I should start ranting a little more so what have we got?

Fastmail, yup that's a good topic. Fastmail has decided to offer file storage as an added service, and I've to say it sounds very good. I'll make my site there I think. The scary thing is that they start to resemble yahoo in that they are adding a lot of 'extra' services that one wonders where are they getting the resources to do it... never mind.

Truth to be told, they give a terrific free service, I'm almost compelled to pay them. But every time I pay for something I experience a hard disappointment.

This is not to say that I'm not going to ever paid them but that I'm afraid that paying them would hurt me in some ironic way. But then again I'd better wait to have a credit card before worrying about that kind of decisions.

This is my version of an "unbiased" analysis. Leave or Take it... plz?