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Firefox 3.5

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August 16th, 2009
 Author:
Stuart

I conceded and upgraded to Firefox 3.5.

My main concern was the new tab bar – what the + sign was all about, and how it would impact on my standard way of opening new tabs, and closing them. In fact my concerns are somewhat alleviated – although you don’t get a close x for the first tab, it appears when more tabs are opened.

Tabs in Firefox 3.5

Tabs in Firefox 3.5

I have found overall that it has improved my browsing – I can click the + for a new tab, and with the Google Toolbar providing the 9 most popular pages I have visited recently, I can bring one of those up with one additional click. This added functionality gained by installing the latest Google Toolbar mimics one of the features found in Google’s own browser, Google Chrome.

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Chrome Plated Internet

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September 3rd, 2008
 Author:
Stuart

Google Chrome is coming – today if the reports are right (US timezone though!)

What is Chrome?  Google’s answer to Internet Explorer and Firefox to put it in a nutshell.  It is pretty big news actually – too large to know the implications of this move at this stage, but the entry of a new, major internet browser is going to give a lot of IT people kittens I’m sure.

You can read more about it here, and a comic by Google about the decision, and the process they went through is available here, or as a downloadable pdf.

We’ll watch this new release with interest!

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