Just wanted to wish all visitors a happy Eid ul Fitr! May you all have lots of yummy "sawaiyyan" and get loads of "Eidee" too. I am wishing the same for myself as i am greedy for both food and money. *giggles*
May we all have a wonderful Eid! May we all be able to find the gratitude in our hearts for all the blessings Allah keeps bestowing upon us in abundance! Ameen.
Tuesday 30 August 2011
Thursday 18 August 2011
3 Annoying Things About Firefox 6
Yesterday I finally upgraded from Firefox 3 point something point something to Firefox 6. Yes I was living under a rock for so long (Sue me!) *giggles*. But I finally decided to come out o the hiding and face the music. While I am loving the overall feel of the new version of the browser, there things are driving me bonkers!
1. In the “older” version whenever I right-clicked a link, the option “Open Link in New Window” would be at the top; and “Open Link in New Tab” would come right after it. Not in the “new” version their order is revered. So now unintentionally I am opening my links in new windows (due to the habit of selecting the second link on the pop up menu) when I actually want them to open in new tabs. That’s a pain!
2. The “older” version used to consume about 200,000K of my memory in addition to the same chunk consumed by the “plugin-container.exe”; making it a grand total of 400,000K plus of memory consumed just by a browser. And I used to feel it slowed down my PC. Now in this “new” version, both the browser the plugin-container.exe consume 100,000K each more memory; bringing my total to 600,000K. Crap! Now my PC is slower than ever!
3. The “Reload” (or refresh) button used to sit nicely on the left hand side of the address bar in the “older” version. I always preferred that location for the Reload/Refresh button. I hated it when Internet Explorer moved it to a tiny spot right after the address bar. Seems Firefox also got inspired by that and has shifted this button to the same location as in IE. Now every time I need to refresh a page, I have to look for that darn button for a couple of seconds, before I can hit it. This even more annoying than the Annoying Orange!
I know I will get used to these changes too and there will come a day when I wouldn’t even remember this dilemma. But for now I am in a fix and temporarily regretting my decision to upgrade.
Firefox people, could you send me one of the cute fox cubs you used to show on the live cams to take my pain away, please! *bats eyelashes while making an angel face*
1. In the “older” version whenever I right-clicked a link, the option “Open Link in New Window” would be at the top; and “Open Link in New Tab” would come right after it. Not in the “new” version their order is revered. So now unintentionally I am opening my links in new windows (due to the habit of selecting the second link on the pop up menu) when I actually want them to open in new tabs. That’s a pain!
2. The “older” version used to consume about 200,000K of my memory in addition to the same chunk consumed by the “plugin-container.exe”; making it a grand total of 400,000K plus of memory consumed just by a browser. And I used to feel it slowed down my PC. Now in this “new” version, both the browser the plugin-container.exe consume 100,000K each more memory; bringing my total to 600,000K. Crap! Now my PC is slower than ever!
3. The “Reload” (or refresh) button used to sit nicely on the left hand side of the address bar in the “older” version. I always preferred that location for the Reload/Refresh button. I hated it when Internet Explorer moved it to a tiny spot right after the address bar. Seems Firefox also got inspired by that and has shifted this button to the same location as in IE. Now every time I need to refresh a page, I have to look for that darn button for a couple of seconds, before I can hit it. This even more annoying than the Annoying Orange!
I know I will get used to these changes too and there will come a day when I wouldn’t even remember this dilemma. But for now I am in a fix and temporarily regretting my decision to upgrade.
Firefox people, could you send me one of the cute fox cubs you used to show on the live cams to take my pain away, please! *bats eyelashes while making an angel face*
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