I tell everyone that his birthday is July 3rd and they all believe me.
Web Side Story has an interest in Firefox slowing
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My company uses Web Side Story's HBX web analytics service. They have a tool called the Active Viewer which allows you to browse to a web page and view the stats for that page. The Active View tool does not work for Firefox (or Netscape, Safari, Opera). So you could assume that they would want to play down any of Firefox's sucesses, since thelr products don't play well with it. It's a shame because it's a very cool tool.
Also, IMHO, only the most corporate and boring sites use massive services like HBX -- so, in other words, IE users. I want to see Google's web stats -- then we'll see the true browser stats.
If it weren't for the non-English books at my college library (Rutgers), I don't know what I would have done. All the English books were stolen, vandalized, or had pages torn out (partially stolen?).
Similarly, maybe the foreign language servers will has less traffic and it will be easier to get the info I need.
Amazon.com's developers must have read this post, stolen the idea, built a time machine, and went back in time and implemented it, becuase they've done the very same thing with the "Rate this" check boxes on their site. Whoa.
I imagine that this is part of marketing strategy for their Internet Protect concept/service.
AT&T Internet ProtectSM is a security alerting and notification service that offers advanced information regarding potential real-time attacks (viruses, worms and distributed denial of service or DDoS attacks) that are in the early formation stages.
It does seem like many blogs are nothing more than links to other Blogs and sites. BoingBoing and Metafilter are like that: great sites, but, just links to other sites and Blogs.
Okay: I tested it again. It isn't choking on namespaces. The problem might be that I'm looking at a page on my local intranet, and so it doesn't know what to make of it.
I wasn't too happy with it. I uninstalled it an hour or so after installing it.
The anti-phishing feature ID'd just about every site I visited as a threat. In some cases it might be looking at images hosted on a different host, but I think it was choking on xhtml namespaces as well. I need to reinstall it too figure this out.
I seems to add about 10-15 seconds to Firefox's start up time. I observed the same issue with the IE version. This was enough to uninstall the toolbar from both browsers.
I value Netcraft's services, but I think I'll go directly to their site instead.
Technorati works by reading RSS feeds and then letting you search the feed item descriptions and content. Will Technorati end up being a minefield of Google ads? I assume they'll start parsing them out, and maybe banning feeds that use them. Maybe. Maybe not, since their profit model is based on Google ads as well.
Google has banned some spam blogs from their seach listings, but really, what's the difference between a spam blog with an RSS feed that makes money with Google ads, and Google droping ads directly into a feed?
According to Netscape 8, Slashdot is a "Trust Partner", but other semi-promintent techy sites are not, like Zeldman.com, alistapart.com, quirksmode.org, meyerweb.com, weeklystandards.com and digital-web.com are not. My own sites are not trusted as well.
Just how does one become a "Trust Partner"? Does the process involve me spending more money and buying into the Trust Mafia?
Seriously, will every person visiting my site think it's a security risk? Can I sue AOL for this digital slander?
This says to me that Microsoft has no intention of ever improving the security of their operating systems -- if anything they will purposely weaken it so they can sell more (dis)servicies.
People will buy into these services because they're ignorant, or scared, or brainwashed, or because the company they work for makes them use it. It's like Windows users are hooked on an OS, like a junkie is hooked on junk.
The key to Firefox reaching the masses it to appeal to the lowest common denominators: sex and fear. You can sell it via fear, by touting better security (there's not a lot in the mainstream press to prove that to the average Joe, but...).
With sex, you could set Beyonce aka Foxy Cleopatra to do a commerical. Get it, "Foxy"? Maybe OG Pam "Foxy Brown" Grier?
Or maybe a sexy anthropomorphic cartoon lady fox? Eh? Maybe? A sexy cartoon lady fox would be better than the "non-anthropomorphic fox soul-kissing the earth" which is what the logo looks like now. (That comment just bough me a Score of -1)
With the airbrushing and all, it looks just like my cousin's van circa the late 1970's. Change the wallpaper to a dayglow Frank Frazetta poster, toss in a can of Ozium and it will be perfect!
Maybe in Cupertino. If you claimed the "vast majority used Firefox", you'll be warm, but you'll still be wrong. Blogging is now mainstream, and the mainstream uses IE on Windows.
How about "What I like about you" or "I want candy" playing in the background like every other trailer. Can somebody please "mash" that up, post it, and then boing boing can blog about it.
Integrating more robust Pop-Up blocking into Firefox makes good sense for the average persion.
The average person (the 87% still using IE) isn't up to tweaking the about:config or hunting down an Extension every time a new annoyance rears it's head. If Firefox is looking to take down IE, it needs to add integrate some features available in about:config or an Extension as defaults and/or directly into the Options menu.
I could not imagine expecting my Mom, or a project manager for that matter, to wrap their mind around an issue and then tweak about:config or find an Extension.
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I tell everyone that his birthday is July 3rd and they all believe me.
My company uses Web Side Story's HBX web analytics service. They have a tool called the Active Viewer which allows you to browse to a web page and view the stats for that page. The Active View tool does not work for Firefox (or Netscape, Safari, Opera). So you could assume that they would want to play down any of Firefox's sucesses, since thelr products don't play well with it. It's a shame because it's a very cool tool.
Also, IMHO, only the most corporate and boring sites use massive services like HBX -- so, in other words, IE users. I want to see Google's web stats -- then we'll see the true browser stats.
If it weren't for the non-English books at my college library (Rutgers), I don't know what I would have done. All the English books were stolen, vandalized, or had pages torn out (partially stolen?).
Similarly, maybe the foreign language servers will has less traffic and it will be easier to get the info I need.
I'm glad I can read more than one language.
You could put a turd in a Snickers wrapper and it would still be a turd.
That's the best analogy I could think of.
Amazon.com's developers must have read this post, stolen the idea, built a time machine, and went back in time and implemented it, becuase they've done the very same thing with the "Rate this" check boxes on their site. Whoa.
I hope Amazon hasn't patented time travel too.
It does seem like many blogs are nothing more than links to other Blogs and sites. BoingBoing and Metafilter are like that: great sites, but, just links to other sites and Blogs.
That said, I'd like less links and more pictures of the Go-Gos!
That's probably a marketing decision, since Longhorn will probably be used more by generation X and Y, and not the "Me" generation "Baby Boomers".
Does anyone remember the dreadful FishPC iMac wannabe, not to be confused with the eMachines iMac knockoff?
"Mr. Gates, I use the BSOD on my monitor to make my day-glo poster collection iridesce."
Oh wait, Paul Allen is the one who likes Jimi Hendrix...
Okay: I tested it again. It isn't choking on namespaces. The problem might be that I'm looking at a page on my local intranet, and so it doesn't know what to make of it.
Anyway...
I wasn't too happy with it. I uninstalled it an hour or so after installing it.
The anti-phishing feature ID'd just about every site I visited as a threat. In some cases it might be looking at images hosted on a different host, but I think it was choking on xhtml namespaces as well. I need to reinstall it too figure this out.
I seems to add about 10-15 seconds to Firefox's start up time. I observed the same issue with the IE version. This was enough to uninstall the toolbar from both browsers.
I value Netcraft's services, but I think I'll go directly to their site instead.
They're already in the kitchen -- let's hook them up to the blender and Cuisinart.
Technorati works by reading RSS feeds and then letting you search the feed item descriptions and content. Will Technorati end up being a minefield of Google ads? I assume they'll start parsing them out, and maybe banning feeds that use them. Maybe. Maybe not, since their profit model is based on Google ads as well.
Google has banned some spam blogs from their seach listings, but really, what's the difference between a spam blog with an RSS feed that makes money with Google ads, and Google droping ads directly into a feed?
Someone help my simple mind grok the difference.
How'd ya like those apples?
According to Netscape 8, Slashdot is a "Trust Partner", but other semi-promintent techy sites are not, like Zeldman.com, alistapart.com, quirksmode.org, meyerweb.com, weeklystandards.com and digital-web.com are not. My own sites are not trusted as well.
Just how does one become a "Trust Partner"? Does the process involve me spending more money and buying into the Trust Mafia?
Seriously, will every person visiting my site think it's a security risk? Can I sue AOL for this digital slander?
This says to me that Microsoft has no intention of ever improving the security of their operating systems -- if anything they will purposely weaken it so they can sell more (dis)servicies.
People will buy into these services because they're ignorant, or scared, or brainwashed, or because the company they work for makes them use it. It's like Windows users are hooked on an OS, like a junkie is hooked on junk.
The key to Firefox reaching the masses it to appeal to the lowest common denominators: sex and fear. You can sell it via fear, by touting better security (there's not a lot in the mainstream press to prove that to the average Joe, but...).
With sex, you could set Beyonce aka Foxy Cleopatra to do a commerical. Get it, "Foxy"? Maybe OG Pam "Foxy Brown" Grier?
Or maybe a sexy anthropomorphic cartoon lady fox? Eh? Maybe? A sexy cartoon lady fox would be better than the "non-anthropomorphic fox soul-kissing the earth" which is what the logo looks like now. (That comment just bough me a Score of -1)
True. Too many sharp edges.
Although, someone on this board is bound to disagree.
With the airbrushing and all, it looks just like my cousin's van circa the late 1970's. Change the wallpaper to a dayglow Frank Frazetta poster, toss in a can of Ozium and it will be perfect!
Maybe in Cupertino. If you claimed the "vast majority used Firefox", you'll be warm, but you'll still be wrong. Blogging is now mainstream, and the mainstream uses IE on Windows.
Scoble uses Firefox, BTW.
How about "What I like about you" or "I want candy" playing in the background like every other trailer. Can somebody please "mash" that up, post it, and then boing boing can blog about it.
It resized Safari too. Sux.
Hey, it was the first time out of their Mom's basement since high school. Give these guys a break.
Integrating more robust Pop-Up blocking into Firefox makes good sense for the average persion.
The average person (the 87% still using IE) isn't up to tweaking the about:config or hunting down an Extension every time a new annoyance rears it's head. If Firefox is looking to take down IE, it needs to add integrate some features available in about:config or an Extension as defaults and/or directly into the Options menu.
I could not imagine expecting my Mom, or a project manager for that matter, to wrap their mind around an issue and then tweak about:config or find an Extension.
We are looking to take out IE, right?