everything counts

I’ve got all this stuff I want to write up, but I’ve just gotten supremely busy, and I probably won’t have a chance until next week to do it.
Until then, I strongly encourage WWdN readers who have had it with pop-ups and spyware to take a look at the latest release of Firefox. I started using it a few days ago, and I like it (and its totally bitchin extensions — especially bugmenot) so much, I’m considering switching from Konqueror, and making Firefox my primary browser. That probably doesn’t mean very much to anyone, unless you know how much I like Konqueror, which is a lot.
Okay, I have to go do real work now, so have a great weekend, everybody.

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  2. MS would not discontinue support for all OS’s previous to longhorn in 2006. It makes no sense considering the majority of their customers wait awhile to upgrade – plus, that is assuming longhorn comes out on time which is just a laughable concept. Not providing critical support (like security patches) would cause so many problems…that’s why Service Pack 2 is available even to those with pirated copies. =D (I have windows on my desktop, but linux on my laptop.) ME has got to be the worst version of windows a person could run (other than the first edition of 98)…you could probably find 2000 at a fairly reasonable price.
    I adore Firefox. I have been using it for awhile now…It’s so great to have multiple homepages, so I can wake up, run firefox, and check out news and blogs without having to do much of anything. It’s so standards compliant, it rocks hardcore – I don’t read websites that don’t display correctly on firefox since I figure if they’re that badly mangled, they have nothing important to say. (And whoever it was that said Wil should update his HTML is looney. If this was one of those flashy-showy type of blogs, it would take away so much from the raw honesty and emotion that are behind some of his best entries.)

  3. As a Security Manager I have nothing but good things to say about Firefox. I usually deal with a minimum of 2 IDTenT’s a week (including my lovely wife) who’ve gotten scumware from using Internet Exploder.
    I even requested a firefox polo shirt on my birthday wishlist as I approach the end of my 31’s.

  5. I’ve been using Firefox as my default browser for years now – and am even using the current release.
    However, I look at WWDN in IE because the comments window doesn’t render correctly in Firefox. Anyone else having this problem? Could be an extension I have installed.

  7. Well, FireFox++, but bugmenot–. I agree with their aims in general, but the way they have implemented it is not so great. While there are some sites out there deliberately requiring registration in order to harvest data, there are some which use registrations for other (technical!) reasons. That’s where bugmenot fails badly.

  8. Ignatz: good point about the real work thing, however, my guess is that Wil meant that he enjoys messing around with his weblog so much that it doesn’t feel like real work?
    another thought: real work. Hm. Wil, what is real work? Writing? Developing a website. Doing v/o’s for other companies… marketing yourself as a product in any way… ? Food for thought.
    Who am I to question? A customer. I buy into the product of Wil Wheaton.
    I’ll shut up now. not sure what my point is. 😉

  9. I’ve been using Firefox for about 2 months now and I think it is awesome! I’ve stopped getting those annoying pop-ups and adware trojan horses, plus it performs much faster under SSL-encrypted pages on the e-commerce sites!

  10. “Real Work” is work where someone else (like an editor) is relying on me to turn something in (like a column or manuscript.)
    “Real Work” is how I provide for my family.

  11. Nice of you to join the rest of us converts. After using IE for the majority of time I’ve been surfing the net from home for the past few years, Firefox is a breath of fresh air. It’s definitely and amazing piece of software. Get used to and enjoy the mouse gestures and you’ll find yourself in other programs wishing they had them.

  12. I’ve always used whatever came with the computers that I’ve purchased. Cookie cutter browsers like IE,…etc.
    I’m worried that I’m missing out on some really great aspects by sticking with the norm, but I’m also worried that my inexperience and or inexpert knowledge of the way things work will leave me bogged down in a realm I only vaguely understand.
    I’ve checked it out and will continue to mull this one over.
    I think I’m ready for a change.

  14. I’ve been using Firefox since it was Firebird and I love it. The newest version is great. It is the first one that passes my ESPN test. On older versions ESPN didn’t view very well and a lot of the special features — like any media content — out right did not work. In version 1.0; I’m listening to ESPN Radio with no problems. I am glad to see that it is finally catching on.

  15. Ya, I am now using FireFox 1.0 as we speak. It is indeed fast and efficent. My only complaint-it does a terrible job rendering borders. I guess it’s the one thing IE seems to have a leg up on. However, the spead and ease of FF more then compensates.

  17. Just watched SBM for the 12 time and, in tune with the end of the movie, wanted to know how life really did work out.
    Thank God you survived child stardom and can now enjoy the true reality of life, love and children.
    You are successful beyond your dreams of childhood.
    I don’t know anything about computers. I do believe that being able to use something you don’t understand, and do it well is funnier than shit!
    My adventures in life are not limited by what I understand of technology, because there is always someone who knows enough to prod me into pushing the proper button at more or less the right time or sequence. I am, therefore, a huge suceess at being a failure. It is not pretty but I get by.
    I am sure those who understand the need for “Firefox” or whatever, do not yet appreciate the humour of the failures of whatever it is replacing. How many really good laughs have been had due to really bad programing? Millions have enjoyed the subtle giggles as screens freeze or go blank (like their operators?).
    Things don,t have to work perfectly all the time, they just need to work long enough for you to develop trust, then fail. Anticipation is knowing that it is going to happen, the humour is always in the instant delight at what has been destroyed.
    I live in Ottawa, Canada (why I spell weird) and having a program screw up is much like going outside, at night, in the winter. The air is cold, dark and it bites.
    I do hope that the new system has enough failures (and it will) to keep the humour in the computer.
    Cheers, Larry Nicholls

  18. Firefox is indeed a great browser, although it does still have a few annoying bugs to be worked out and its CSS support, while overall better than that of IE, is still lacking in some ways (inline-block support, for example).
    I am running Windows at the moment, although I have tried Firefox under Linux. The Options interface might be missing some options, but you should–through the Options interface, configuration files, or modifier keys–be able to have tabs work just the way you like. On my Windows system, I can hold to open a tab in the background or and together to open it in the foreground. You can right-click on any tab for a menu that lets you close other tabs or even reload them. Firefox offers a lot of flexibility with its tabs by default; just dig around and you should be able to find what you need and if you can’t there may be an extension that offers the functionality you would like.

  19. This is an update to my previous post since Wil’s comment system seems to be either unable or not configured to print the historically-favored angle-bracketed key notation. The sentence with the missing words should have been something like the following:
    On my Windows system, I can hold [Ctrl] to open a tab in the background or [Shift] and [Ctrl] together to open it in the foreground.

  21. i am still stuck with glacially slow dial-up service…and firefox has made a big difference for me since i switched over 7 months ago…it gets me around faster…and that makes me very happy.

  23. As a long time user and advocate of firefox/firebird etc. I been overall very pleased. This latest version 1PR however is spontaneously quitting on my mac os x. Anyone else have this problem? Seems to be when I have heavy flash on the page (or maybe even java).

  24. Wil! Thank you for reccomending Firefox. Within one minute of installing and running it, it happily and kindly downloaded and installed plugins that I’ve NEVER been able to get running in Mandrake on my own. Love it, I do.

  25. I picked it about about a month ago or so… my boss IMed me about it. No popups, moves faster, it’s clean and easy, and I’m loving it. A few things don’t work with it, so I run my launch.com on IE, but everything else is nice.

  27. gotta love a browser that has an extension to let you play interactive fiction. that’s what sold me on it a while ago. if anyone misses zork and planetfall and all those goodies, look for the “gnusto” extension and then go to http://www.ifarchive.org for all the interactive fiction you could ever desire =)

  29. I don’t know if anybody has mentioned this yet, but IE for XP Service Pack 2 has pop-up blocking built-in and enabled by default. It just pops down a little toolbar-type thing when it blocks a pop-up, so that you can choose to view it or not.
    I encourage anyone with a legal version of XP to upgrade to service pack 2… I was a bit wary, but surprisingly had few problems. If you just turn off the firewall, it’s essentially the same, but much more resistant to infection.

  30. Yeah, Firefox is sweet, love the mouse gestures a la Black and White. The mozilla Email program, Thunderbird is also incredible, great for anyone who has more than one account to keep track of.

  31. Bruce, where you recommend people download and install sp2, I do not. I am glad you have had good experiences with it, but the vast majority of people I know have had many problems with it. Some were unresolvable, and required a wipe clean and reinstall. It all depends what you are running of course, and just what is compatible. If you are willing to risk being down for an extended period, go ahead and install it. If you are running a critical application you can’t do without, well, proceed with caution. If security is your major concern, I recommend using non microsoft methods of securing your computer. Do things like use firefox, thunderbird, get your OWN firewall, and of course install virus protection etc. And a nice router isn’t such a bad thing to have either, even if you only have a single computer connected to your always on internet connection.
    You may now return to your regularly scheduled Wheaton.

  32. Firefox is so cool I could pee my pants. I’ve been at it for a month or so now. Most of the really big sites, especially ones frequented by geeks, have fixed any compatibility errors they have with it (gmail loads properly now, when apparantly it didn’t before, and Livejournal actually loads BETTER– I hear tale IE users are having issues with the comment window being larger than the screen).
    Extentions you should look at:
    Firesomething: frivolous but funny. Every time you open a new browser window, it gives it a new randomly generated name– like right now I’m on WWdN with Mozilla Webdog, and yesterday I was reading my mail with Firesheep. It mocks the fact that Firefox had to change it’s name several times because of copyright issues.
    Bugmenot: owns. Doesn’t work on really high-end websites, like New York Times, but there’s nothing quite like surfing SparkNotes without registering at all.
    Nuke Anything: I like this one even better than bugmenot: right-click on ANY element of a page, be it an annoying banner ad, or garish .gif, and you get an option to remove it. Poof! gone. Want it back? just hit refresh.
    MiniT: allows you to re-arrange tabs by dragging and dropping.
    AdBlock: filters out a lot of ads and gives you the option to remove flash-animated ads, thus filling in Nuke Anything’s one major failing.
    Mouse Gestures: fairly frivolous if you know the keyboard shortcuts, but amusing anyway.
    And for those WWdN readers who haven’t switched yet, you should. Come support the open-source endevour and stick it to the man who tried to palm Windows ME off on the general populace.
    Plus: our cult has cookies.

  33. Annalee: Ultimately it was the cookies that swayed me. But seriously, thank you for pointing out some of the more fun extensions…
    Nothing like posting from a window called MadChinchilla Hyperoctopus…

  35. I had been using Konqueror too and still have it, but a month ago started using Firefox as my #1 browser. In combination with KDE on top of Gentoo Linux, I’m a happy camper now.

  36. At the moment (3 pm monday hoosier time) the http://www.spreadfirefox.com page doesn’t open. as someone running ie/win98 on an antique p133 i’m in pop-up hell; the google and yahoo pop-up blockers no longer work; running adaware and spybot often isn’t doing the trick. monster.com is the worst offender; it’s turned into a .. monster. so i’m ready to jump.. but i fear change. like when i let a guy try to upgrade my p2 he broke it and it won’t talk to the net any more.. and i suffer when i can’t get online. the 80’s were rough in that respect. i remember when wil was saying “dump windows linux is cool” and then weeks of “it doesn’t work yet.” i am a technophobe; my geekiness is in other areas, and i am currently out of tech support guys, so it scares me to contemplate making this change without help and no backup system handy. i am, or used to be, an elections lawyer, and it’s almost fun right now watching election officials panic as they realize they scrapped the old systems before testing the fancy new electronic ones.
    i may try the site again later, or may look for other sites to get firefox from… but it seems like a risk of wuffie to say “this is cool, run get it” and then point to a dead link. maybe i’m the only one with the problem with the link – i’ve been wrong before once or twice. and use too many words to do it in. but, on to another subject: real work –
    this site apparently pays for itself via the tip jar, and the annual charity thing is non-trivial, but is it fair to say the site, through ads and affiliate programs and store revenue, doesn’t make enough to live on, even by 3rd world standards? because if your site, one of the more popular and cool, can’t generate revenue, most of the rest of us should not even bother trying.
    i understand that partly “generating revenue” is not the first or second or third objective of the site. i say these things not to be critical, but as someone who probably needs to get off the damn computer and get a real job.. but not today, not right now, just real soon now.
    cordially, the arbitrary aardvark

  37. answering my own question, mozilla says firefox won’t run on my antique. this won’t be a problem for 99% of your viewers, but it would be nice to see open source programs that did support older machines. half the country, and most of the world, is still offline, while working machines get thrown away because they are no longer the latest thing. minor quibble, and one more reason to upgrade. living in the hood, i hesitate to get a nice box and reward a crackhead. one more reason to move.

  39. Thanks Wil. I have no successfully dumped Internet Exploiter as my browser. Firefox is faster and better and that cool development bar has made work easier.

  41. IE is still playing catchup with Firefox. They’ve had stuff like tab browsing, and an extensible plugin structure to spur innovation. Bravo!

  42. Hi Wil
    Two things……
    1. What do you think of the whole Scott Peterson thing?
    2. Have you considered turning your weblong into a sitcom type show? I envision you narrating your thoughts over the things that happen in your diaries. If it gets picked up will you remember me?;)

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