If you use yExplore, you may have noticed that it’s stopped working properly lately. This is due to a change made by Yahoo Site Explorer. The good news is it’s been fixed!

yExplore 1.6.1 has been updated and released!

The new version updates the domain URL structure to work correctly with the updated Yahoo Site Explorer. It also adds in support for newer versions of Flock and adds Netscape 9.0 support.

Enjoy!

The number of different applications that use Gecko are ever increasing. What’s Gecko? It’s the rendering engine that powers such programs as Firefox, Thunderbird and many more.

I guess it all starts with Netscape back in 1998 and possibly even before that when Netscape decided to make a technology to power their browser. It’s come a long way and here are a few applications taking advantage of this open source technology.

1. Firefox* - The most popular and most wildly used Gecko application. It’s the little web browser that’s trying to change the world. With hundreds of extensions and themes, customizing it to fit your needs is one thing that makes it so popular.

The Social Bookmark Creator plugin got a major update, much like the Chicklet Creator did a few weeks ago.

The Wordpress plugin now includes an admin page for managing your social bookmark options and database integration to remember your choices.

Social Bookmark Creator plugin works with almost 50 different social bookmarking services including:

• BlinkBits
• BlinkList
• Blogmarks
• Buddymarks
• CiteUlike
• Connotea
• del.icio.us
• Digg it
• Earthlink
• FeedMarker
• Flog this! (Finance)
• Feedmelinks
• Furl
• Give a Link
• Gravee
• iFeedReaders
• igooi
• Lilisto
• Linkagogo
• Linkroll

yExplore is a Firefox, Netscape & Flock extension to quickly access Yahoo Site Explorer.

The yExplore 1.6 update brings updates to match updates to Yahoo Site Explorer, better Flock support and added Netscape 9 support.

The yExplore 1.5 update included two options. yExplore the domain or a single page.

I felt that one extension that I was missing in Firefox was one to let me quickly access Yahoo Site Explorer stats. So, I took it upon myself to do a little research and build my first Firefox extension.

I’ve downloaded Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0 and I’m using it right now.  I was all excited as I thought SeaMonkey would be Firefox+Thunderbird+Nvu all rolled into one.  Not Quite.

First off, SeaMonkey has an identity crisis on it’s hands.  I started it up and it felt like 1997 with Netscape 4.7.  Seriously people, either make a default theme or make the ‘Modern’ theme default.  People do judge on look and the Netscape 4.7 look is not good.

Second, some of the features I’ve come to know and love from Mozilla products are missing.

• Toolbar is not customizable.