Back in 2004, Firefox reached version 1.0 and quickly became the alternative browser of choice for people sick of Internet Explorer and Safari. It’s hard to imagine my internet experience without it now, but it’s good to remind myself that before 2004, all I ever used was Internet Explorer (scary, I know).
Anyway, I really like how this video looks as it recounts the story of how Firefox came to be and came to be one of the most popular browsers on the market. These days it’s getting some competition from Google Chrome, but for at least a while longer, it’ll be the king of browsers in my mind.
However, if you have Cooliris installed, you can just open up the image in the Cooliris wall viewer and see the image as large as your monitor resolution goes (this might or might not give you the FULL size of the image, but it’s at least bigger than the preview page on Flickr). I wasn’t sure if at first if it was just simple Flash zooming in on a small image, but upon further inspection, it looks like Cooliris can read the full size of the image and retain image sharpness and quality as you go full-screen with the image.
If you’ve got Cooliris already installed, you can try out what I just explained above on this image, whose current permissions do not allow the viewer to view the photo at any different size — that is, unless you have Cooliris installed.
I wonder if this might cause problems for Cooliris as more and more Flickr users find out that their protected images are simply a screenshot away from being taken.
Has anybody else been experiencing major problems with the latest version of Firefox?
The latest version doesn’t seem to handle itself as well as the previous version and that means that at any point in time, the Firefox browser will become sluggish, slow-to-respond, or stop working altogether forcing me to do a Force Quit on the application.
I’ve been trying to pinpoint the exact cause (whether it’s a website I’m visiting or a script that’s running somewhere or possibly one of my add-ons), but so far it just seems like Firefox does a terrible job of staying afloat after a certain number of tabs. This was never the case before with previous versions of the browser.
Could be a major memory leak. But in any case it’s a big enough problem that I’ll sacrifice the headache for now and start using Safari until the next version of Firefox comes out (or until Chrome for the Mac gets a solid release).
As I mentioned earlier, the Mac OS Expand Window button (the green one) is completely stupid.
The image above shows the expanded window state for my browser. Yeah, I can see a lot more of what I was looking at before now. -_-
Below is a perfect example of the inconsistencies of the button within Mac OS. If you push the Expand Window button in iTunes, the window actually goes into compact mode which makes absolutely no sense for a button that’s called Expand. If you think it’s isolated to the music library window, then you’re mistaken, because this same result happens when you push the Expand button in the Equalizer window too!
I know that many of you go to YouTube on a daily basis, and if you actually make use of the ’subscribe’ button on the site, you’ll know that YouTube has a really stupid way of displaying the videos in the Subscriptions section (link only works if you’re logged in to YouTube).
The problem, for those who don’t know, is that YouTube makes every single link to the videos a special javascript link which ultimately prevents you from opening multiple videos at once in browser tabs. If you try to open a video in a new tab from the subscriptions area, you’re simply brought to the subscriptions page yet again in the new tab.
To fix this really stupid problem, just install this Greasemonkey script and start opening those links in new tabs. Of course, to use that script, you have to have the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox installed first.
