Well I recently decided to go ahead and upgrade to the latest version even though it is not a Long Term Support (LTS) version. The upgrade itself took me about 3 hours since my internet connection isn't that great and I ran in to a few problems once it booted into the new version.

So I've been using FF3.1b1 and have loved it. The speed improvements and cool new alt+tab style tab switcher have really been incredible. GMail has never loaded so quickly for me. The only thing I couldn't get working right away was Flash. So I dug around a bit and realized it was a matter of copying a file into the plugins folder of my beta installation.

I was boarding a plane from EWR (Newark, NJ) to PHX (Phoenix Skyharbor) and came accross this on one of the information screens:

It was an error for one of their VBScripts. I'm not sure what exactly the script does or was supposed to do but it did create an eyesore while waiting for my plane to board.

Firefox has just released it's newest beta. In this beta is their new javascript engine called TraceMonkey which is, however, disabled by default. It's easy to enable though by toggling a simple option in about:config. Look for "javascript.options.jit.content" and set it to true.

Ah, this is something I've been meaning to address just haven't got around to it. Today I decided I'd look into fixing problems with dark themes and Firefox. Basically, if you're using a dark theme with Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 a lot of websites will show up with black or dark input boxes and black font inside those. Even some buttons will show up black with black font. This is a huge hassle when it comes to productivity.

In order to switch from one operating system to another it does take some time and effort. Over the passed roughly 6 months I've used Ubuntu as my primary OS. This is not as simple of a switch as you may think especially if you've been using Windows all your life. In the passed Linux was not very end-user friendly and sort of difficult to get into. Today, Ubuntu makes switching over extremely easy. By default it comes with almost all the software you really need in order to be productive. Getting things like music, videos, and other media to play doesn't take much effort either.

I'd like to share with you what Ubuntu Linux can look like with some tweaking. This shows that Linux doesn't have to look so boring as many people assume.

Pretty sweet way of switching between desktops is with CompizFusion