Slashdot | Google Tells Users To Drop IE6

Finally!! It’s since IE 6 came out I was dreaming this day would finally arrive!!

Kelly writes “Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 IE6 in favor of Firefox or Chrome. Google recently removed Firefox from the Google Pack bundle, replaced it with Chrome, then added a direct download link for Chrome on Google and YouTube. Google’s decision to list IE6 as an unsupported Gmail browser does not affect just consumers: Tens of thousands of small- and mid-sized businesses that run Google Apps hosted services may dump IE6 as well. What’s especially interesting is the fact that Mozilla is picking up two out of three browser users that Microsoft surrenders.”

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Safari – Restore Session Plugin

Glims is a really nice do-it-all plugin for Safari. I was looking for a way to automatically save and restore the last session in Safari. I didn’t like the idea to install SafariStand as it need SIMBL support and I don’t like to mess with the InputManagers in Leopard. Then I found glims (thanks to pimpmysafari.com) which comes in a nice and tidy package installer and its free. Here’s its features straight from the website:

Current features list:

• Adds thumbnails to Google.com search results
• Adds thumbnails to Yahoo.com search results
• Adds search engines to the default Google search tab
• Adds full-screen browsing capability
• Adds Favicons to tab labels
• Adds keyword search from address bar
• Undo “Close Tab” (cmd-z)
• Re-opens last session when Safari starts
• Auto-Closes download window
• Focus last selected tab
• Always open links in a new tab
• Type-ahead support (auto cmd-f)
• Sets the focus on the search field when opening a new window
• Adds Amazon’s information banner on Google.com search results
• Adds Amazon’s information banner on Yahoo.com search results
• Adds a “Max Window Size” menu item to resize the Safari window
• Forms autocomplete always on
• Dated download folders
• Localized to Japanese, French, Greek, and German
• Tested with WebKit lastest build ( http://www.webkit.org )

Enjoy!

dArio

Google Chrome

Finally released… erhm, not yet, but close to!
Take a look at the geekiest application presentation ever: an entire comic book!!

And the question is, do we need another browser? Firefox 3 is pretty cool by itself, and Safari 4 with the new javascript engine and newly released CSS and HTML 5 standard support will probably be even better… ok, ok even IE 8 seems promising. What can I say? Every time a competitor release a new version the bar goes higher and higher, hopefully Google will help making all of this improvements even faster! Now if somebody would take some time to make javascript less ugly … wait, they are!!

The only thing it’s a little shady about Chrome is the testing part: Google says they are using their infrastructure to test their release on significant parts of the WWW. Does it mean they will adapt support of the “web standards” to fix non-compliant sites?? Hope not, otherwise what is a “standard” for!

Almost forgot, did I say Google Chrome is free and completely Open Source?? Well…

dArio

[ source: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html ]

[ UPDATE: here you can download the beta http://www.google.com/chrome and here is the open source project chromium http://code.google.com/chromium/ ]

[ UPDATE: info about upcoming MAC version http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-priorities.html ]