01 April 2011
Movie
I just finished watching Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and let me tell you. A. Maze. Zing! I don't even know where to start. Just. It's amazing. It was everything I like in a movie.I may add to this post later, but at the moment I just needed an update.
24 March 2011
Talking of Firefox...
Add-ons you should download! These are the ones I use, and I'm not entirely positive I could live without them.
I'll start with Tile Tabs. Oh. Em. Gee. This is an amazing one. I just found it today, and I've already mastered it and adopted its use entirely. It gives you the option to tile your tabs. No, seriously. I can't think of a better way to put it than that. You can right-click on any of your open tabs, and have it side-by-side, or top and bottom, or any combination thereof, with others. I'm not sure there's a limit on how many, but I've been able to tile 7 or 8 without any issue (except visibility. I just did it for fun anyway.).
It's great for multitasking without multi-monitors (laptop user, here), and I am as excited about this as I was when I first got tabbed browsing!
More after the break.
I'll start with Tile Tabs. Oh. Em. Gee. This is an amazing one. I just found it today, and I've already mastered it and adopted its use entirely. It gives you the option to tile your tabs. No, seriously. I can't think of a better way to put it than that. You can right-click on any of your open tabs, and have it side-by-side, or top and bottom, or any combination thereof, with others. I'm not sure there's a limit on how many, but I've been able to tile 7 or 8 without any issue (except visibility. I just did it for fun anyway.).
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It's great for multitasking without multi-monitors (laptop user, here), and I am as excited about this as I was when I first got tabbed browsing!
More after the break.
Firefox 4!
I loves it. I loves it like I loves Soda-Pop, and that's a lot. It runs much faster, looks amazing (at least in Ubuntu and Windows), and has so many nifty features!
Application tabs are awesome. Very awesome. I was afraid they would slow startup, but it doesn't seem to be much of an issue, and I've got a few. They're there for those "web-apps" that you leave open pretty much all the time, and they stay there until you tell Firefox otherwise. There are a few issues I have with that feature, though. If you navigate away from the "app" address in the same tab it changes the URL associated with that tab until you change it back. I also feel that they could stand to be paused or have to be initiated, rather than live, in the event that resources become an issue. Easy enough to solve both of those in the future: app tabs could be locked to the domain; they don't need to load until you've shown that you're actually going to use it in this session, and they can idle out after a set time of inactivity.
Sync! I already used it. Extremely handy for me, considering I run at least a dual boot on all my machines, and and triple on my primary. It's as good as ever, and you don't realise you need it until you have it.
Tab groups, I don't use. Yet.
The interface is so clean and integrates with the OS so well. Of course it also frees up more viewable area. One might say they copied off of Chrome, but bear in mind all of what Firefox has pioneered in web browsers that has since become the industry standard. Also, Chrome has basically zero OS integration, which can completely ruin the unified look across a desktop.
I was going to wait until they pushed it as an update, but I'm glad I didn't. I advise anyone who has used Firefox in the past give it a look-see.
Application tabs are awesome. Very awesome. I was afraid they would slow startup, but it doesn't seem to be much of an issue, and I've got a few. They're there for those "web-apps" that you leave open pretty much all the time, and they stay there until you tell Firefox otherwise. There are a few issues I have with that feature, though. If you navigate away from the "app" address in the same tab it changes the URL associated with that tab until you change it back. I also feel that they could stand to be paused or have to be initiated, rather than live, in the event that resources become an issue. Easy enough to solve both of those in the future: app tabs could be locked to the domain; they don't need to load until you've shown that you're actually going to use it in this session, and they can idle out after a set time of inactivity.
Sync! I already used it. Extremely handy for me, considering I run at least a dual boot on all my machines, and and triple on my primary. It's as good as ever, and you don't realise you need it until you have it.
Tab groups, I don't use. Yet.
The interface is so clean and integrates with the OS so well. Of course it also frees up more viewable area. One might say they copied off of Chrome, but bear in mind all of what Firefox has pioneered in web browsers that has since become the industry standard. Also, Chrome has basically zero OS integration, which can completely ruin the unified look across a desktop.
I was going to wait until they pushed it as an update, but I'm glad I didn't. I advise anyone who has used Firefox in the past give it a look-see.
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