photo credit: Blog StoryHey guys! Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 has been release! You can get it here. This is great news because now you shouldn’t have an excuse not to try it out! I’ve been running it since beta 3 I think and it’s been great every step of the way. This new release seems to have fixed many bugs and has a lot of UI changes all for the better. If you havne’t tried Firefox 3, you’re really missing out. The new address bar changes how we interact with bookmarks forever. You can type in some words and it’ll intelligently look for bookmarks related to that or pages you’ve visited (You’re history). It’s definitely worth a try if not a switch! If Firefox 2 has been giving you problems like it did for me, you have no excuse to not try this.
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Yes I know this is old news, but man…Firefox 3 is looking so frickin sexy. I was looking at a review of Firefox 3 beta 3, and man it looks great. I still don’t want to install it though because I want to wait until it’s stable. However, lately Firefox 2 has been bothering me like crazy, crashing, lagging, not to mention the frickin infamous memory leaks…so that might change. I might take it up once the release candidates start rolling in which should be soon.
Yesterday I barely found out about a Firefox Extension made by Google: Google Browser Sync. This is pretty crazy, it’s what I’ve been looking for for a while and I didn’t even know Google, my favorite company, had already made it haha. Basically it stores all your information from your browser like Bookmarks, Cookies, Tabs/Windows Open, etc. and syncs it to their servers on your account. So you can install this on another computer say at work/school, and it’ll automatically synchronize both computers. So if you bookmark something at home, and you go to your school computer which is also running this extension, you’ll have the bookmark over there too.
Right now I’m not using it for that purpose but rather for backup, just in case anything happens. It’d be better if Google somehow let you view or manage these things it stores, but as far as I know that’s not possible. Either way, this is a great extension so far.
If you ever get into a situation where you have all these tabs open and you have to leave and can’t leave the browser on, some people like me force kill the process (Using CTRL+ALD+DEL) so that the next time I start up Firefox it allows me to open up those same tabs (Lame I know haha), instead with this extension you can close the browser regularly (Just don’t close the tabs themselves), and the next time you start it up the discrete little Google Browser Sync extension will ask you which of those you would like to go back to. Really neat.
One day you just click on the Live Messenger Icon and it won’t start up, what the heck? You check the task manager and you see it’s still running, in fact if you click on it various times it runs as many instances. What the heck is going on here? You think it might be a virus. You re-install, scan your computer for viruses/spyware, nothing.
After a while of searching, I found it has to do with your router. Live Messenger fails to load due to firewall exception errors with your router. Most people who had this problem had D-Link routers. Some solved it by simply reseting their router, but for some that didn’t work. Instead they discovered that they also had to turn off UPnP Settings. Turning this off consequently resets the router as well. Once it’s back up, you’ll be glad to know that Live Messenger now works fine.
Source: MSDN Forums
