I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 over the weekend as a release candidate for the new version of my “must have” Tab Mix Plus extension had been released. The upgrade seemed to go smoothly. Several extensions had to be disabled as they were not marked as working in Firefox 2.0, but I expected that. Unfortunately [...]
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 is out. While it is not the major upgrade IE 7 was, it is still getting good reviews and is reportedly worth the download. I haven’t downloaded it yet because one of my must have extensions, Tab Mix Plus, has not been updated for Firefox 2.0 yet (although the author is [...]
If you need to access a system running a version of unix from your windows system, you can take advantage of the client server design of the unix X-Windows server to have programs from the unix system display directly on your Windows machine’s monitor where you can use them just like you were sitting at [...]
When I wrote about the new Internet Explorer 7 last Friday, I complained that I could not find an ad blocker for it. A Software Gadgets reader emailed me and suggested I try Maxthon. Formerly known as MyIE (I used MyIE years ago), Maxthon uses IE’s HTML engine to display sites, but wraps it [...]
After over a year of hype, Internet Explorer 7 is finally available. I bit the bullet and downloaded it today. I created a System Restore point on my computer before I installed it, just in case, but the install went remarkably smoothly. It did take 5 or 10 minutes to complete, however.
My first impressions [...]