Two

Posted on Wednesday, November 1, 2006

I know I’m a little behind the times here. I was aware of this about five minutes after it happened, but I haven’t had time to blog about it until tonight. Firefox 2 was officially released over a week ago.

To be honest, I’m a bit disappointed with this release. Sure, it has a slick new look and some new bells and whistles (e.g., in-line spell check, session restore, and anti-phishing), but it’s lacking in one area that makes all the difference for me: XML feed support. To be fair, it’s got better support for feeds than Firefox 1.5, but this is one area where I’m sad to say Internet Explorer 7 is winning.

Lifehacker already voiced a few of my complaints about Firefox 2’s feed support (or lack thereof), but one thing they failed to mention is that Firefox 2 has poor support for third-party feed readers. I use Mozilla Thunderbird to manage my feeds, and, paradoxically, Firefox can’t add feed subscriptions to Thunderbird. This bug really should’ve been a version 2 release blocker, but somehow it sailed right through without being noticed. Hopefully they’ll fix this bug in a 2.0.1 release or something soon.

Other than that (and a minor unsettledness about the new look), I do love the browser and recommend that everyone download it as soon as possible. Happy browsing!

Tech Recap

Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004Wednesday, December 29, 2004

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, and many important things have happened in the tech world.

First off, “Thunderbird 1.0”:http://www.getthunderbird.com has been released. I haven’t noticed much in the way of new features since 0.7, but it seems to be extremely stable and sports a stylish new default theme (although that may have debuted in version 0.9, which I somehow completely skipped over).

Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3

Posted on Thursday, August 5, 2004Wednesday, July 27, 2005

I haven’t made mention of any of the Firefox releases lately, because they’ve all been pretty trivial, but I suppose it’s worth mentioning that “Firefox 0.9.3”:http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox and “Thunderbird 0.7.3”:http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird have been released.

Get ’em while they’re hot, folks.

Bayesian Email Filtering

Posted on Monday, December 8, 2003Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Ever since I read Jim Daniel’s article on SitePoint regarding Bayesian spam filtering, I’ve been wanting to get my hands on it. The article concerns a product called Spamnix, which is currently only available for Qualcomm Eudora. He listed a few suggestions for Outlook (and/or Outlook Express) users, but nothing that looked too promising.