Julian Bez

A few years ago, all these things would’ve had a different color, don’t you think?

Shiny, glamerous black is getting trendy.

(Sony PS3, Apple MacBook, Samsung TV)

I’m the kind of person that sometimes remembers having seen something somewhere and then I just want it back. But I happen to never make bookmarks to del.icio.us of these sites. Nice, huh?

So that’s why I was happy to discover a new (dunno, at least new for me) extension for Mozilla Firefox which bookmarks just about every site you visit. Now that’s great.

The extension makes use of Google Bookmarks (anybody who uses that normally?) to store and tag everything. Now I can search these bookmarks for some keywords I remember and hopefully I find the site again I was on previously.

This was just running through my mind: What is the most annoying thing (or was) with Mozilla Firefox updates? Extensions that told you they weren’t compatible. But actually there haven’t been huge changes between minor versions, just bug fixes. Still these extensions weren’t meant to function. Firefox won’t let you. I think this is a mistake.

If a user wants something, he should always be able to do it. If he wants to run extensions that aren’t meant for the most recent version, he should still be able to run them nonetheless. Display a warning, ask for permission, but never block anything so much, that you can’t use it unless you crawl deeply into configuration files or menus.