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Hello world !!! and Mozilla Firefox 3.5 June 30, 2009

Hello !

Finally got around to making a personal blog. Random thoughts and opinions will be shared here.

Feedback is welcome

I’ll start of with my thoughts on Firefox  et all,  since the launch of Firefox 3.5 (codenamed Shiretoko) is a few hours away.

I’ve been using Firefox since it was very young at 1.05 in 2005. Prior to that, I was never a IE user because Netscape 7 was my browser of choice. How did that come about ? Not really sure, but nobody at home really used Internet Explorer. One experience with IE that I remember well, was when I tried to remove it from my system causing windows to conk. (Every windows user has probably had that experience, maybe even when upgrading to a newer version).

As for Opera, I have some vague memory of using an old version of Opera on my Windows 95 back in 1997

Since I became a Firefox user, I havent looked back !! Although in the past year, I have tried Opera 9.6, Safari (evil !) and Chromium (thats right, not Chrome). Been very impressed with WebKit, hence my second browser is Midori which I dropped Epiphany for, because their WebKit version had some problems on Ubuntu Hardy.

Back to Firefox ! I, like most other users have been taken in by the use of extensions in Firefox (those plug-ins which allow you to do just about anything under the sun and beyond maybe !)

Firefox has gained enormous popularity in recent years and has a 20% + share of the browsers. Unfortunately, there are still a HUGE number of people who use Internet Explorer (ouch !) and some even use the neanderthal version 6. A lot of times it is because of their ignorance, and the Redmond monster has always had an upperhand due to crazy deals like this.  There was an instant response.

But a much more entertaining ( and probably more stupid) treasure hunt was launched here. Well somebody thought they ought to rectify that, since some of those “facts” were’nt quite “facts” . The response was classic. More info

below:

• techcrunch.com link 1
• http://mitcho.com/blog/link/ten-grand-is-buried-there/
• techcrunch.com link 2

Shiretoko Shock

Finally, the last word goes to Mozilla and their community supported campaign to Spread Firefox. And for the release of “Shiretoko”, there is a  “Shiretoko Shock” campaign to spread the word about this great browser.

Shiretoko will be released at  30th June 7:00 AM PDT.

Starting from 30th June 3:50 PM  Brazil time and moving west every hour, there will be Shiretoko Shocks in every timezone as they reach 3:50 PM on their local time.

And then 24 hours later on 1st July 3:50 PM Brazil time, the world will experience the “Super Shock” as everyone will go crazy blogging, tweeting, denting, facebooking and more !

Be a part of it and enjoy the open web