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Firefox PR1.0
September 15, 2004

Get FirefoxI hurriedly upgraded to Firefox’s new preview release 1.0 after reading about it at Gadgetopia. Perhaps I was a bit hasty. Once again, a couple of the extensions that I use extensively are not yet compatible with the new version. Still, there are some benefits to be gained.

The new version includes this crazy search bar. Instead of popping up a window when you hit Ctrl-F, a new toolbar thingie appears at the bottom of the window. The toolbar has a space to type the search term, and a couple of buttons that let you cycle through all of the instances on the page. There is also a button that will highlight the term wherever it appears. Appropriate errors appear in the bar when the search cycles back to the top of bottom, or when the term isn’t present. That’s a nice addition.

The Snot Flap
September 15, 2004

Maybe this isn’t the kind of thing that’s fit for general publication, but am I the only person this happens to?

There’s this odd effect when you’ve got a bit of mucous in your nose, and you breathe in and it kind of “flaps” back with the air. And then when you breathe out it “flaps” back outward. Sometimes this causes an unpleasant sensation in your nose, maybe ticklish. It also usually interferes with the passage of air through that nostril.