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My parents should be so proud of me because I’m addicted to the internet, not drugs.
Dear Mom and Dad and the D.A.R.E. people,
I listened. I’m not addicted to drugs, instead I’m addicted to the internet.
I’m not wasting all my money on meth and crack and things like that. Though I do spend money on hosting, Flickr Pro, online backup and Amazon. Not to mention all the apps and music I get from iTunes. But that’s not the point, I’m being good.
I don’t go around, stealing things just to get a fix. Wait, that’s not exactly true. I have been known to “borrow” the internet from the library across the street when mine goes out just to send an email. And I do know where to find free internet if I need it. Again, not the point.
How to disable Firefox beta update notices.
With Firefox’s new release schedule, you may be seeing update messages every few weeks about a new beta version.
Firefox 6 Beta Update
If you’re tired of seeing these, you can easily disable them.
First, in Firefox’s URL bar type about:config. If you get a safety warning, hit I’ll be Careful.
Next, in the filter bar type app.update.channel.
In the value column, change beta to release.
Now you’ll only be notified when there is a stable release of Firefox available.
The fastest browser on my Mac is Firefox 5.
I tested four browsers with the SunSpider tests and it turns out that Firefox 5 was faster than Chrome, Safari and Opera. This was quite surprising to me as it beat out Chrome but quite a bit. It’s also interesting how far behind Safari is.
Opera 10.5 – 534.0ms +/- 1.4%
Chrome 12 – 524.6ms +/- 4.6%
Safari 5.0.5 – 566.9ms +/- 4.2%
Firefox 5 – 448.8ms +/- 0.9%
Now the tests aren’t scientific by any means, but they do represent my computer on a normal day. I’d suggest you run them for yourself and see what you come out with.
GA? and yExplore are now Firefox 6 compatible.
I received emails from Mozilla today that stated GA? – Is Google Analytics Installed and yExplore are compatible with Firefox 6.
Man these releases are moving fast. The good news is that my extensions don’t require any updating to work in the new releases; well not yet anyway.
I just sit back and let Mozilla do all the testing and updating and tell me that my extensions are OK. I think I can handle that.
GA? and yExplore are now Firefox 5 ready.
I received emails from Mozilla yesterday that stated GA? – Is Google Analytics Installed and yExplore are compatible with Firefox 5. So I’ve updated the version numbers in the extensions and they are ready to go.
As a bonus, GA? also works in Firefox 4 now too. 
Enjoy!
From Chrome to Safari to Firefox and back again.
It seems that I can’t find a browser that is perfect. I try them all, I love parts of them all, and there are always things I don’t like.
With Chrome, its startup speed is annoying me. It takes a while to do something on startup and I’m not sure what that is. I think it’s loading the start page images, but whatever it is, its been taking to long. It seems you can’t go anywhere until it’s got that thing done so I’m stuck wanting to go somewhere, but can’t.
So I switched to Safari.
I’m retiring from Firefox theming.
It’s been a fun journey over the past 5 years creating Firefox themes. I created nearly a dozen themes, stating with iPox, and I’ve got over 5 million downloads! However, I just can’t keep up.
With Firefox 4 just around the corner, my themes would probably need to be revamped from the ground up and I just don’t have the time. Heck, some of theme aren’t even updated for Firefox 3.6!
It’s a hard decision to make though as I loved creating them. I loved making the fans happy and I wish I could keep up with them.
Google Analytics Extension Upgraded
Just a quick note to say that the Is Google Analytics Installed? Firefox extension recently has been updated to work with Google’s new asynchronous tracking code.
It should now work for all versions of Google’s code.
And, if Google doesn’t drastically change the analytics tracking in the future, it should continue to work well for future updates.
(fingers crossed)
yExplore Comes To Google Chrome
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yExplore for Google Chrome is now available!
It adds quick access to search engine, and social media, information about the page, or domain, you are viewing.
yExplore is helpful for finding out information on your own site or doing competitive research on someone else’s.
yExplore includes shortcuts to:
- Google
- Backlinks
- InIndex
- Cache
- Yahoo
- Backlinks
- InIndex
- Bing
- InIndex
- Delicious Saves
- StumbleUpon Stumbles
- Compete Information
- BackType Social Information
- PostRank Social Information
- Archive.org Flashbacks
- Robots.txt Quick Access
- Text Only View
- Whois Info
Use Google Chrome’s Private Browsing To Login To Multiple Accounts
If you’re like me and you need to access multiple accounts on the same service, like different Gmail or Twitter accounts, on a daily basis, logging in and out gets to be a pain. You could always just open up a different browser, but that’s annoying too.
Google Chrome however has a good work around as you can use private browsing to login to multiple accounts without ever having to log out of your current account.
Basically, when you start a new incognito (private) window in Google Chrome, you get a fresh start. You’re not logged into anything which is very handy. You can then log into a different Google, Twitter, Facebook or whatever account you want to.
