If you read my blog today, the posts were written yesterday and autopublished because I’m far away from civilization in the middle of nowhere. Last time I was here, there was no 3G and poor cell service. Surprisingly, the towers were upgraded and 3G is available now, so I’m writing this from my Droid. The 3G speeds are pretty bad though. I’m good for about 500KBPS.
Anyway, I’m out this bitch because we just lost power from a storm, so cya in the real world in a few.
I always used Chrome as a secondary browser. Firefox was always my main one and if I needed another browser with separate cookes (so I could log in to two gmail accounts, for instance), I’d use Chrome. But Firefox 3.6 is behind the times and with 4.0 beta 1 looking fucking hideous, I temporarily switched to Chrome as my default browser until Mozilla releases and/or gets their shit together with Firefox 4.
But you really need to spend time using a browser to understand it inside out. Here are a few of its quirks that annoy me that I never noticed because I used to use Chrome so infrequently:
The preferences dialog is confusing as hell and poorly organized
You cannot middle click to open links in a new tab in chrome:// pages (plugins, bookmarks manager etc)
There needs to be a custom print dialog box and a print preview
There needs to be a native proxy support, not use the IE/system proxy setting dialog
You can’t clear browsing data on exit.
Memory usage sucks. I have like 9 chrome.exe processes running.
There’s some funkiness going on with selecting text on pages sometimes. It’s slightly annoying
You can’t open files from the browser. You need to download them first. This is more secure, but its annoying when you want to open a torrent from the browser. With Chrome, I need to download it first then click on it.
Firefox has a huge advantage for the location bar. I hate how you can’t control what pops up in the location bar. It searches history over my bookmarks.
It never seems to remember my window preferences / always opens windowed instead of maximized (maybe a beta issue?)
Other than that, it’s better at rendering pages. It’s faster. Its UI is clean. That’s enough to make me happy for now.
Uh, on the second though, those are a lot of quirks / things that annoy me. If Firefox ever gets their UI problems sorted and boosts browser speed, I’m running back to it.
Introducing something you’ve never heard of before! I was watching an old episode of Entourage and this played as the boys walked into Ari’s office. I had to look it up since it wasn’t anything big.
It’s a mix of SKA and Hip Hop, but the reggae-ish music is catchy. It might be a little repetitive, but whatever. You also get a, mediocre yet catchy guitar solo at 2:43. It wasn’t available on the interwebs anywhere and there are a few skips in the video, so I had to pick it up in iTunes.
