May 23, 2002

I'm generally a Microsoft supporter, except when they do something stupid.. but today the default browser on all my machines is Mozilla. It's still a little weird-feeling, and my mouse naturally goes to the wrong place when trying to hit the Home button (for example) but there are two features in particular that made me try to switch: Tabbed Browsing, where instead of opening pages in a new window, it just adds tabs across the top of the current window.  This is excellent for sites with a lot of links that you want to check out - I also enabled a feature in the Options that causes a Ctrl-Click to open the link in a new Tab, so whenever I see a link I like I Ctrl-Click on it and it opens a new tab... The new tabs load in the background so when I'm done with this page I close it and move on to the next, which is all loaded and ready - but without clogging up my task bar and Alt-Tab list with IE windows.  Very nice. No Unwanted Popups.  This is actually an option they took OUT of Netscape 7 (which is based on Mozilla) so if you want this, you have to install Mozilla and not Netscape.  Actually, why would anyone want Netscape over Mozilla?  I'm sure Netscape and AOL will be pushing very hard to get people to use Netscape, but they've given users the ability to actually remove features they don't like.  They're probably regretting that already.   11:30:15 AM    comment []

Yeah!  FTC backs better facts for domains. "We cannot easily sue fraudsters if we cannot find them," says the Federal Trade Commission. A new plan would deny domain names to those who submit false applications. [CNET News.com] Anonymity and privacy is one thing, but it's often used as a way to avoid accountability... 11:24:14 AM    comment []