Diary: September 2008
I have only swapped one of my machines to Firefox 3 because I rely on the net tab of Firebug for quite a bit of my work, and I've noticed problems with it in Firefox 3: downloads of files that were included on the page weren't showing up. It only seemed to happen when frames were involved, but as I do quite a bit of work with frames, that's a big deal for me. So I've been waiting patiently for the Firebug team to fix it, while I do my testing on my Firefox 2 machine ...
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I'm going to be controversial and go ahead and say I'm not at all impressed by Google's new browser.
Yes yes, I know, I'm sure that the dev team are sobbing as they read this. But they should have tried harder, even if this is a beta. Take their security model, for example. I'm very wary about installing firefox add-ons - it's potentially worse than installing a keylogger, or having my router compromised. What I want to see in my browser is a better security model for third party add-ons, and a proper sandbox that ...
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Today, our glorious leader Mr Brown announced measures to help people on low incomes who are struggling to pay their energy bills, and discounted insulation for the rest. That's nice.
However, I bring you an exclusive - my source inside the government has passed me this discarded early draft of his statement:
The taxpayer will pay for energy for the poor! What, you have a job? Already have insulation? Struggling to pay your rising mortgage, food bills and your own energy bills? Don't care - sell your house, downsize and give us the profit! You what, it's a market ...
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