Weekly Rehash »

Here are a few of our more popular posts for this past week:

• Technorati Love
• Speed Up Firefox and Internet Explorer
• Undesirable “feature” in Microsoft Vista
• Use Skype and get paid
• Microsoft Vista vulnerability
• Mozilla patches Firefox

Wow, what a week. I hope you saw something in there that helped you or gave you something to think about. If so, please consider subscribing to our RSS feed (the big orange button in the right hand column). It’s free for you and will help us out too

First Visit From Sweden »

Just wanted to jump in here for a minute and hoot about our first Google Search visit from Sweden.

Woo hoo! The searcher was looking for a way to speed up Firefox and arrived at our blog post on…well… how to speed up Firefox. Its nice to be loved .

Maybe other sites get tons of visits from Sweden, but this is a first for us so, naturally, I have to make a big deal about it. Now, on to the rest of the world!

Mozilla Fixed Eight Bugs In Firefox »

If you use Firefox, you will be glad to know that Mozilla is on-task: Firefox 2.0 has gotten its first update.

Prior to this update, there were eight vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser. Some of them (five of the eight) were pretty nasty and were rated as “critical” by Mozilla. According to Mozilla’s website, critical is defined as:

Vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.

Yikes, these needed to be addressed. Two of the eight were rated “high” which is defined as:

Vulnerability can be used to gather sensitive data from sites in other windows or inject data or code into those sites, requiring no more than normal browsing actions.

So, seven of the eight put you at a significant risk anytime you browsed the Internet as usual 8o. I am glad they patched these holes because I really do not want to have to start using IE .

As an aside, you may remember a post we did on Firefox running slow. Well, these patches will also repair some memory leaks that could have caused Firefox to “hog up a bunch of extra memory” (no that is not the technical term). So maybe the patches will fix the problem that I was experiencing with Firefox speed (although, I am blazing along since doing some sweet Firefox tweaking). Nice.

If you want to make sure you are updated, follow these steps:

• Open Firefox
• Select “Help”
• Select “Check for Updates”

That will manually check Mozilla’s site and grab the latest updates for Firefox. I prefer to do that rather than wait for the automatic update to begin.

Speed Up Firefox and IE »

As if Firefox wasn’t fast enough , Serge at webspeaker found a cool video that shows how to speed it up even more. If you use Firefox and want even faster browsing then this is for you. The video will walk you through the process step-by-step and to its credit, yes, it does work.

Even if you (cough) use IE, you can speed up too. After walking you through the Firefox part, the video shows a step-by-step for doing the same thing in IE. Warning – to change IE you will have to go into the registry of your computer. Do not do that if you are not comfortable lurking around in there. One can really cause some damage if not careful .

After you are through, you will blazing new trail all over the Internet. Nice find Serge! (and the crowd goes wild)

Firefox is Running Slow »

I have noticed that Firefox seems to be running slow for me lately, painfully slow in some cases. The only thing that I have done differently (that comes to mind, anyway) is that I started using Google Reader.

I really like Google Reader but I hope that it is not the culprit. Previous to Google Reader, I used Sharp Reader. That was a very nice little standalone program and I (gulp) may have to switch back.