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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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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've spent a few hours playing with IE8 b2, and although there are a lot of improvements, they all just seem to fall a little bit short of my expectations:
- InPrivacy: like putting up a "Beware of the dog" sign on your gate, but not buying a dog. Took me less than half an hour to get my cookies to persist across an InPrivacy session. It was so easy I can't help thinking it was by design - after all, Microsoft's ads need to track people too.
- IE8 in IE7 mode is not IE7. It might be close ...
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It has been 2 and a half weeks since LAAFF, so it must be time for a report! The Friday evening saw Tristan, Mark and Meri arrive, followed shortly after by Peter and Charlene, who brought Rock Band. I cooked pizzas and sausage rolls until everyone was full, then I cooked some more just in case. Rock band was played into the night, and resumed in the morning while Laura, Natalie and Simon arrived. We then ate more food, played Mario Kart, and watched the excellent "Ninja Dragon" (which clearly wasn't two unrelated films randomly spliced together) before going ...
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This weekend is the 117th LAAFF: Annual Atrocious Film Festival, and is being held in Cheltenham. The organisers are expecting better attendance than the previous 114 film festivals - which consisted of me slowly working my way through my DVD ollection.
I'm now expecting 8 friends from uni to arrive at my flat at some point today or tomorrow. This is sadly down from 10 as two had to drop out, but the up side is that 8 people are more likely to fit in my flat than 10. Especially as they will be sleeping on the floor.
I am ...
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