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.
So I was getting pissed off at how bad IE was. Earlier today I read an article on how some people who were trying to cut some slack for it ultimately couldn’t find a way to, simply put, “In All Fairness … Internet Explorer Still Stinks“. After working two whole days on sites and having to mess with IE a lot, I am now dropping all support for it and could give a rats’ how my site looks on IE. Sounds harsh? Well it’s Microsoft who doesn’t feel a need to follow web standards, so why would I feel a need to support a lame browser like that? There are many great browsers which do, my personal favorites being Firefox and Opera.
Now, whenever visitors are running IE they will see a nice little discrete message at the top of each page saying, “Browsing the web with IE is like riding the bike on a highway. Become modernized, Get Firefox.” I couldn’t come up with a better quote haha, if you know one let me know.
If you would like to see a screenshot of it, check this one out, I’m running IE7 here. I’m not going to remove it, and besides it’s not like it’s annoying or anything, it’s pretty neat. If you have some weird obsession with a lame browser like IE then I’m sure you’d be used to seeing annoying stuff anyways. I figure the main reasons many people still run IE is because they A. think IE is the Internet and/or B. they don’t know of any alternatives. Hopefully this nice little message gets them on their way.
I was trying to make it a plugin for WordPress at first, but after a while of working on it, it just wouldn’t work after viewing a post, so I gave up on it. I hacked it into my theme. My theme is so hacked up, I love it haha.
Like a user on Slashdot said:
Firefox No Extentions
Firefox With Extensions
Opera
IE
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