Friday, October 27, 2006

Ubuntu Edgy Eft and Firefox2

The developer community seem to be on drugs. Last week Ubuntu Edgy Eft, Firefox 2 and Fedora 6 were released. Apple have also given hints of Touch screen iPod and iPhone. Last but not the least Microsoft have released IE7 after 5 years.
Am not an apple user so might not use those products. I am not going to even try getting IE7... i cant browse on anything except firefox. Fedora 6...ummm .. only if I am forced too, not interested, life is too bland without apt-get.

However I did upgrade to Ubuntu Edgy Eft. The user experience in Ubuntu never stops to amaze me. I find it so much easier to use than Windows. If you have ever upgraded Windows, you know the process...
  • Pop in the CD..
  • Navigate through ugly menus, expect the user using Windows to play solitaire to know how to partition, which partition to load on...
  • Take 30-50 minutes to install.
  • Take another 1 hour to install the drivers.
  • Take another few days to get all the applications running.
I was running Ubuntu Dapper before... i just did gksu "update-manager -c" .. This took care of everything. It downloaded all the upgrades, installed it... thats the level of abstraction that creates a cult user following. As an added surprise it upgraded my Firefox (although I was running firefox2 on dapper). The only hitch was the some unwanted services that were running at startup. I killed them using sysv-rc-conf (Fedora users think chkconfig)... I think I am in love with Ubuntu :P

Firefox2 deserves a mention too. It has integrated several function provided earlier by extensions. One of the feature is the snap back tab feature earlier provided by SessionSaver. Just press Ctrl+Shift+T to get back a tab you closed by mistake. I am also a sucker for its inbuilt spell checker. Blogging and writing mails is so much fun now that I don't have to use the bloated spell checking web app.
I know that I am addicted to computers, Linux and internet... but am too smug to care.

3 comments:

  1. yeah i agree mozilla is on marijuana ,dats y dey created such a bugggyyy firefox dis time ...8 hours of using it and i have already end-tasked it 8 times and restarted my system once due to a hang ..and yeah all dis on windows xp prof ...

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  2. oh.. I dont find any prob with firefox on winXP prof either. There has been nothing on the user groups too.
    Maybe something wrong with your installation.

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  3. oh there have been similar reports on some forums like mozillazine etc but not in a big way ...

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