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TOPIC: FIREFOX

New Firefox, new ForecastFox

25th February 2007

Firefox 2.0.0.2 has made its appearance and the CPU usage bug seems to have gone away. We'll see how it goes... Also, a new version of the Accuweather.com powered ForecastFox plug-in has come out. It was when I was using it that I noticed heavy CPU usage, but the behaviour has yet to make its reappearance and I hope it never will. Now, I can get back to enjoying this very useful widget.

Extra WordPress editor options

24th February 2007

Solo Technology has posted about a nice extra available in the Visual Editor in WordPress 2.1. Hit ALT+SHIFT+V in Firefox and ALT+V in IE, gets you an extra row of buttons adding more editing options. He is currently trying to add a button to the main bar for doing the toggling.

P.S. While on the subject of blog post management, I have been playing around with w.bloggar, and I have to say that it works well; with a spot of persuasion, it even edits WordPress blog pages. The only things attempting to spoil the experience are the odd instances where odd characters get added to blog posts or characters in posts get misinterpreted. I'll try to add more in time.

Got OpenSolaris back

3rd February 2007

Having done a reinstallation, I have now got OpenSolaris going again in VMware and cloned the VM in case I go on a wrecking spree once more. I am going to leave VMware tools uninstalled for now so that I don't encounter the display problems I previously experienced. Speaking of how it looks, I uploaded a screenshot here; the difference between how it looks and the appearance of its ancestor is enormous. Having sorted the VMware/ZoneAlarm clash, networking not works as it should, and I can access the web through Firefox. Now that everything is all set, the real explorations can begin.

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