EconTech

While the computer problems are not solved, they have been dramatically reduced. Due to consistent browser crashes in seamonkey (technically iceape) and no way to save sessions (well, not in a way that doesn’t increase instability), I have moved to Firefox 3. However, the transition was rather tough. Having a mozilla profile from almost a [...]

There has been an ongoing benchmark battle between Webkit/KHTML, Firefox, and Opera. The Firefox devs, after seeing their browser lose (anyone surprised by that?), suggest “turn off extensions.” Well, yes, that ends up improving performance. But the point is, they forked from and then shot in the back the Mozilla Suite/Seamonkey, which implemented tons of [...]

No, not the pagan turned christian plastic eggs of theophagism, or whatever their relation to modern religious mythology is. Easter eggs in software are little gems of humor or entertainment typically found in what would otherwise be a monolithic, boring application. I know several in mozilla suite/seamonkey/iceape/firefox/iceweasel/phoenix/firebird/whatever/you/want/to/call/it. There is the classic about:mozilla (classic in the [...]