gumbald’s blog!

Release Candidate 1 is now available (from here), the point at which I generally upgrade, so I installed it yesterday. It’s nice. Very nice. Much quicker than Firefox 2 and appears to hog less memory after a full day’s use. Extensions generally work, but most still aren’t registered as compatible and will be disabled by default. To get around this, enter about:config in the address bar and agree to the warning. Then, search for the key:

extensions.checkCompatibility

Change the value to false by double clicking it. If it doesn’t already exist as it didn’t on mine, you can right click and add a key of type boolean with the above name and value set to false. A restart of Firefox will then get most of your extensions working again! If you’re really bothered about potentially not having to reinstall Firefox, then either disable all your extensions until you can verify they work definitely, or don’t do this step…

I’ve now just got to find a way to get my Smart Bookmarks back again after overwriting them using Foxmarks -  the key that needs changing is again missing on my system. Incidentally, you need a beta version of Foxmarks to be compatible with Firefox 3, available with discussion from here for which you’ll need to login to participate. A direct link to the area can be found here.

If you’re a Bonnie Tyler fan, don’t watch. If you like music, don’t watch. I thought people who mimed songs were meant to know the words?

I much prefer B*Witched.

I wanted notifications on my MacBook for new mail arriving, like I get on Windows and Linux, so went searching for something that would fit the task. As I’ve already got Growl running and providing notifications for everything else, it made sense to use:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4634

This is stated as compatible with Firefox and Thunderbird. You can see it in action with a screenshot of it telling me I’d completed a download of something in Firefox. One grumble I’ve got is that the Thunderbird notifications aren’t very descriptive, only showing the subject rather than the sender too. Perhaps they can fix that in a newer version?! Current version is 1.0.2, don’t get the older version of 0.3 or such as I made the mistake of at first, it appeared first in the Google results.

Let me know if you get it working!

I don’t get it…

Stunning capture I think you’ll agree.

I give to you… tree-cam. Watch the leafy wonder develop and gradually cover my car in a sticky sap-like substance. Gripping.

Left: 27th April, right: 8th May.

See also: night edition!

Yes, they are.

Me, the Ronster and Tehab are communicating by the power of illiteracy.

It rocks lol bbz.

Allez toute droite, et tourné dans mon bouche, avec le chateaux! Les haricots!

I missed this earlier, thank goodness for YouTube…

EDIT: It’s gone! Bah.