{"id":988,"date":"2008-06-17T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cooleysekula.net\/blogs\/steve\/taomph\/?p=988"},"modified":"2008-06-17T21:39:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T05:39:01","slug":"go-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/go-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Firefox!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 3 is officially released today (get your copy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/\">http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/<\/a>). To top it, Mozilla is going for a Guinness record on the most downloads of a single piece of software in one day. You can pledge to participate in this and then download a copy; you have until about mid-day on Jan. 18 (Pacific Time).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been holding off using this. Ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 (<em>THE FIGHTING HERON!<\/em>), I&#8217;ve held back. This was largely for the same reason that other people have done this: extensions. These little plugins for firefox, which make it powerful, also mean you have to be patient if you want your favorites to work with a new version of the browser. My &#8220;can&#8217;t live without them&#8221; favorites are Zotero (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/\">http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/<\/a>), which I use to organize and find scientific papers, and Scribefire (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribefire.com\/\">http:\/\/www.scribefire.com\/<\/a>), which is how I usually edit this blog. I refuse to use a Firefox that doesn&#8217;t have these.<\/p>\n<p>So I held off. Until today, that is. Zotero and Scribefire are fully compatible with Firefox 3, and so here I am!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to run it for a while before I can form an opinion about FF3. Tech experts claim the memory usage of the application is vastly improved, in size and speed, making the browser less of a hog and consequently much faster. We&#8217;ll see. But so long as I have my extensions, I&#8217;ll use FF3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 3 is officially released today (get your copy at http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/). To top it, Mozilla is going for a Guinness record on the most downloads of a single piece of software in one day. You can pledge to participate in this and then download a copy; you have until about mid-day on Jan. 18 (Pacific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computing","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}