Wednesday, November 16
Upgraded to Firefox 1.5RC2
I kept hearing about how Firefox 1.5 was supposed to be released emminently, but now there's going to be a RC3 before the actual release. Oh well, I upgraded to 1.5RC2 anyway.
A lot of themes and extensions still don't work under 1.5. Greasemonkey has a beta that "works" under 1.5, but every freaking script I have is broken.
One has to wonder. With this much breakage, shouldn't it have been called 2.0? 1.5 sounds like most of what worked under 1.0 should still be working. I wouldn't expect everything to work. But the vast majority of extensions I had, had to be reloaded with 1.5 specific extensions. And while I really liked Greasemonkey, I may have to bid it a fond adieu, because I was having performance problems with my 1.0.7, which is why I bit the bullet and upgraded. Performance is better now than it was. But is that because I've got less extensions loaded now? Initial loading is also painfully slower as well. But opening up a new window now is pretty darn quick, versus suffering the original slowness on just trying to get a new window opened under my old 1.0.7. It didn't used to be that way. This whole system is begging to be reformatted and reinstalled. Out with the W2k Professional and hello with Windows 2003 Server. Yes, that sounds weird to be doing it, but I think that will do me good. I'll learn move about Server, which I need to do. And I'll also learn more about Windows XP, as I really can be totally clueless about that.
I mean, what the hell happened to Users and Groups under Manage?
I learned I could just go through Control Panel, but still…
My WinAmp isn't crashing either (I'm thinking an updated media controller I had under Firefox fixed that.)
WinAmp is still sucking CPU like it's going out of style, and it didn't used to. Another reason for blowing the heck out of this system.
I also want to repartition. Instead of three partitions, two, one for the system, one for the data. I've installed one package on my F: drive because I was running out of room. Although I've now got about 9 gig free on C:. <shrug>
Oh, and one more bitch. Enough with the freaking script warnings! Relevant Link Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 11/16/2005 08:38:00 PM
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