Folks in Europe who have so far been plagued with the lack of browser options in Windows during setup can breathe a sigh of relief today, for the much talked about “browser ballot” will officially go live next week. But today, we get to actually look at it. The ballot isn’t anything special — just a random ordering of the five top browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera, and Safari) with two basic options: “Install” or “More...

Oh FireFox. Have you ever looked at that little cute fox character wrapped around the globe and thought someone should turn him into a gold covered chain? If so, today is your lucky day because someone has done just that. No more is Franky (I named the Firefox squirrel Franky by the way…) a cute little squirrel but a gold encrusted street warrior complete with sharp edges that could slice through diamonds themselves. Ok, so maybe they won’t cut through the...

Say it isn’t so?! FireFox Mobile (or Fennec as some prefer) could be out as early as February according to Camp-firefox.de. I don’t have too many bones to pick with the stock web-kit browser other than it’s lack of multi-touch out of the box as well as it’s less than smooth scrolling. But as far as rendering and speed goes, it’s isn’t too bad. So why the excitement for another browser? More options is always a plus. Not to mention,...

I’m not going to sit here and lecture you about the so called “legality” of torrents. While most big name labels and other big media organizations would like you to believe that any use of torrents/file sharing is bad and illegal, the opposite is actually true. But such things are best reserved for another post. I use torrents quite a bit. While I am plenty happy with Transmission on my Mac, I’m always open to new programs and services. If...

I thought the holidays were supposed to be happy times? If you’re a Mozilla/Firefox, this certainly won’t be the case as Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 have gotten fresh “delayed” stickers slapped across their faces. Bugs and other under the hood hoopala is no doubt the root cause. (What else would it be?) Unfortunately, a late 2009 release for 3.6 has now become “Q1 2010″ with Firefox 4 looking even more disappointing — “late...