[extropy-chat] Firefox 2 [was: The End of Science]

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:28:37PM +0000, Russell Wallace wrote:
> 
>    Installed Firefox 2 last night on the promise of the "restore session"
>    feature, and _very_ well worth it for that alone! No more having to

Firefox is absolutely useless without extensions, and SessionSaver/SessionManager
are an item on a pretty short list of essentials.

>    try to manually recover tens of tabs on every reboot. (If you install
>    it, make sure to set the option for restore session on regular
>    shutdown as well as crash.)
>    It's a nice example of a general point: Technological progress isn't
>    just about making things possible that weren't before; Firefox 2 can't
>    do anything earlier web browsers couldn't do in principle. It's also,
>    very much, about increasing the range of things you can _take for
>    granted_ so you don't have to worry about them anymore and you can use
>    them as building blocks.

I'm personally pretty much disgusted with Firefox. But then, all
alternatives but Safari (Saft/PithHelment) suck even more.

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