tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13777170.post969647951859172345..comments2024-03-11T02:35:50.848-05:00Comments on grand stream dreams: The GSD Curmudgeon says “Get off my Yard you Dang Kids!”Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13777170.post-49281086537889487342012-01-27T20:17:41.582-06:002012-01-27T20:17:41.582-06:00IE6? I thought you were in Texas, not North Korea ...IE6? I thought you were in Texas, not North Korea :) I have no plans on getting that involved with Chrome. Besides I have my ffextensionguru and emailmafia names until 2014 or 2015.FF Extension Guruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13582647004716743827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13777170.post-8684736870256912832012-01-27T07:01:07.815-06:002012-01-27T07:01:07.815-06:00@FFGuru - At work we & and customers have a ma...@FFGuru - At work we & and customers have a mandatory IE6 usage policy imposed upon us. The explanation we get is that there are too many custom (in-house/vendor outsourced) web-apps still in use by our customer base to move to anything different. Seriously. There is an exception request process to get IE7. I think only because we are the IT shop and have to interface on the web with IT service/monitoring apps that don't support IE6 this is the only reason we were able to get IE8 allowance on our systems. I'd probably use Chrome if I had an alternative.<br /><br />The only two factors holding me back from full-time Chrome usage are the lack of a sidebar feature equal in power and flexibility like found in Firefox as well as a lack of a comparable in-browser RSS feed reader like NewsFox. I've looked for both every month hoping but no luck yet. That's what keeps me on Firefox at home as my web-work/blogging platform.<br /><br />Yeah, Chrome is nice. However I still really like Firefox and hope they are able to remain competitive in the browser wars.<br /><br />And I am grateful for all your tips and news on FF tweaking and development news. You remain my go-to source to stay on top of things. Better not do a domain/blog change to ChromeExtensionsGuru anytime soon! ;)<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />--Claus V.Claushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11692921474310162470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13777170.post-44554452273308313972012-01-23T23:47:54.730-06:002012-01-23T23:47:54.730-06:00Funny you mention about alternatives. I think back...Funny you mention about alternatives. I think back when I was going to school the first time around from 1994-1999. When I was at the community college, which ironically is where I am again now but this time for Networking (want to get my CCNA, CCNA Security and CCNP along with A+ certifications), the PC's had IE and the Mac's (which is what we had in the student activities office) had Netscape. <br /><br />Now, the PC's have IE as well as Firefox (not sure if they have Chrome). Most of us in the Cisco classes use Firefox and looked like in the A+ Prep class it was 50/50 IE/Firefox. Of course there is Opera and Safari as well. I looked at Opera a long, long time ago in a galaxy...as for Safari I looked at it when it first became avaialble for Windows and it just seemed weird (I guess you could say the same if Micro$oft ever made a version of IE for the Mac).FF Extension Guruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13582647004716743827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13777170.post-28565695898769417692012-01-23T20:38:26.623-06:002012-01-23T20:38:26.623-06:00@FFGuru - We are definitely on the same page here....@FFGuru - We are definitely on the same page here. Like you I can deal with the release schedule and major version numberings. Universal logins/user-data collection by design of the browser (rather than independent collection by the websites/hosts) deeply concerns me.<br /><br />I'm not a tinfoil hat wearer but really, so much can go wrong despite the best intentions.<br /><br />Time will tell and I am keeping one eye open in the meantime.<br /><br />That said, it is a good time in the browser world and the alternatives are much better now that in the past.<br /><br />I was looking forward to hearing your perspective! It's always a pleasure.<br /><br />--Claus V.Claushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11692921474310162470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13777170.post-13055109040109207562012-01-22T23:50:53.225-06:002012-01-22T23:50:53.225-06:00Wow, quite a post. Where to even begin. I still li...Wow, quite a post. Where to even begin. I still like Firefox and I support (for the most part) what Mozilla is doing. Rapid Release has been painful, but was needed to make sure we did not have a repeat of the nearly 1.5 year development span of Firefox 3.7/4.0 (they really should have done a 3.7 release then focused on moving over to Gecko 2.0 with Firefox 4). However, there are some things that just don't make sense to me.<br /><br />One of those being the "Universal Logins". I just don't like the idea, there is just too much that can go wrong. Talk about 'putting all your eggs in one basket'. There was a very interesting blog post that Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker referenced on her blog from Ben Adida: <a href="http://benlog.com/articles/2011/12/21/encryption-is-mostly-not-magic/" rel="nofollow">encryption is (mostly) not magic</a>.<br /><br />I too find myself (especially at school on the Laptop) using Google Chrome. It is faster, more stable and less bloated than Firefox. I was really disappointed that Mozilla put the <a href="http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2011/11/20/electrolysis-project-on-hold/" rel="nofollow">Electrolysis project on hold</a>. One thing I love about Chrome is every tab is its own process so a misbehaving site in one tab won't take the whole browser down with it (much like Chrome was the first browser with plugin crash protection, which Mozilla later developed as part of e10s). Last year when I was addicted to Facebook games, I was running those in Chrome as it seemed Flash was more stable in Chrome than Firefox. <br /><br />Don't get me wrong, I do love Firefox and there is no way in he** are you going to get me to use IE. But, at the same time I find a lot of my blog posts are about how to undo changes Mozilla have made that make no sense.FF Extension Guruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13582647004716743827noreply@blogger.com