Kevin's Watch

Firefox 1.5 was recently made available. Here's a link to a columnist who knows a little more about the issues than I.

www.suntimes.com/output/worktech/cst-fin-andy08.html

I've downloaded it for my mac. It appears to be faster, but it will not be my browser for visiting here since it retains its old quirk. Since I search here by the "view posts since last visit" link, having the link read that my last visit was now, even though it may actually have been three days ago, doesn't help me.

I downloaded Firefox out of necessity after I started getting viruses... it's been fantastic on cutting down the pop ups and whatnot, but lately they've been getting through... A reformatting may be in store.

Try the 1.5 version. My only real complaint against it is that the scroll bar doesn't work smoothly.

And check out some of the extensions. I especially recommend the adblock updater one and the flash blocker. I can't remember the last time I saw an ad.

Love, love, love Mozilla. Extensions are so cool.

Been using it on both machines for about a week now. I'm really happy with it, except.....When I ctrl+n to open a new window, it opens my homepage, not the page I'm browsing. Any idea how to fix this?

The mouse gestures extension has a command that opens an identical window as well as one that opens an identical tabbed page.