Firefox 3 beta 3 finally has updated their add-ons dialog window. I ranted about this way back in 2006. Goes to show that typing blog posts is a good replacement for fixing things yourself. (No it isn’t.) You can now sort of download some Firefox extensions in the Tools => Add-ons […]

I tried Firefox 3 beta 2 today. (Happily it was in Portage, albeit hard-masked.) Seems to work OK so far. I managed to crash it once already by trying to open eight websites at once. But it is a beta after all.
Turns out some of the weird issues I was having […]

My conversion to Opera is still going well. I’m not sure that browsing is altogether more enjoyable or anything, but it’s at least as good as Firefox. I’m getting into using the sidebar nowadays. I tend to have an aversion to sidebars in general, but Opera’s are hideable and displayable via a […]

I decided to give Opera another try. How is Opera so much insanely faster than Firefox at rendering? I wish I knew the answer to that. Supposedly the 9.5 alpha is going to be faster still. It’s currently hard-masked in the portage tree so I’m going to hold off trying it […]

I use a dark QT theme. Many web pages (example: Youtube) have CSS which sets text fields to have black text, but don’t set the background color of text fields to be anything. So the background color ends up being my default dark (set by my browser / window manager), but the text […]

Previously I blabbered about how writing themes for Firefox sucks.
Now, on a related note: why is the Opera theme browser so much superior to Firefox?
Observe Opera:

In Opera the theme browser opens in a window in the application itself. You browse some themes. You pick one and click Download and it […]