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Live, Firefox, Live

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I’m not celebrating, I’m just okay with the fact that another 999,999,999 computers have Firefox installed and hopefully are using that instead of Internet Explorer.
Bill Gates is a Prick.

You’re probably like me, you have at least two browsers installed, and maybe four or five or none.

And, if you are like me, you get totally honked off at Firefox and switch to another browser just to teach it a lesson.

3.5 was a nightmare for me. Constant crashes. then 3.5.1 came out and ’tis alrighty.

Sometimes I write Die Firefox Die. But it won’t and another version is released and it’s OK for a while.

So Live, Firefox, Live.

Fun With CAPTCHA; Including the Most Difficult CAPTCHA Image In the Universe.


Google ™ loves CAPTCHA, which puzzles me because Gmail Beta ™ does a fantastic job of sorting out Spam.  I don’t understand why it won’t do as great a job on blog comments. Google(tm) runs Blogger(tm)/Blogspot(tm) which hosts a whole caboodle of blogs. But they insist ™ that before I ™ can comment, I have to decipher a mumbo-jumbo of letters and numbers.

I hate CAPTCHA and I don’t even care if they are deciphering and digitizing the Great Books of The World via CAPTCHA.

The toughest CAPTCHA is courtesy of Dvice.com.

Editor: Peter Pachal
editor@dvice.com

doesn’t respond to my complaints and therefore shouldn’t even have comments enabled because he is too busy spinning his propeller beanie. Nyeah.

What’s really odd is that if I look at his blog using FireFox, the preferred browser for propeller heads, the CSS doesn’t fully render the page. And they are giggling and saying, the dipwad has ____________ turned on/off and doesn’t even know it.
Well, Nvidia-lovers, I don’t have anything turned on/off that effects/affects (pick correct usage) any other blogs I visit. nyeah.
IE/Safari:

FireFox:

The toughest CAPTCHA in the local universe!   Note: There is NO IMAGE. Tough, tough CAPTCHA.

I also like to have Fun with CAPTCHA ™. When a CAPTCHA shows up, I like to make up words and definitions. I’ve noticed that Google ™ CAPTCHA is now more “word-like.”

Word Verifier: SWasi; n. the act of walking after visiting Tower of Terrier. eg: “When I came off the Tower of Terrier, I was all swaysi.

Turns out the joke is on the people who use CAPTCHA to prevent spam. The spammers won. Quite a while ago.

Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail’s CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes.

Die Firefox Die. Why I Am No Longer a FF Fan

I don’t care if all the cool kids are touting how wonderful Firefox 3.01 is, and how it should kill Internet Explorer. I absolutely freakin’ HATE Firefox and the way it underperforms the other two browsers: IE and Safari.

Yeah, that’s pretty extreme and probably very offensive to some folks, but right now, I’m OK with labeling Firefox the scourge of my browsing experience.

Here are the issues:

1. I HATE the way Firefox renders fonts.

Firefox:

Internet Explorer:

Safari:

Yeah, well there is TO a difference. Making a JPEG made Firefox look a LOT better than the stupid real Firefox.

2. I HATE the way Firefox and Google RSS don’t get along.

I have removed all the Firefox Add-ons. It’s as clean a version as my little pea-brain can muster. Yet when I scroll thru the RSS feeds this pops up about every tenth feed. All previous feeds are not marked as read so the next time I go back to the reader, I get the same feeds again. I don’t have a few seconds to wait. I have important things to do. I am important. I am a man, I am not an animal. STFU Reader…

3. I HATE the way Firefox won’t display the page correctly.

Here’s how I want the page to look: With the old type fonts as background. Like it shows in IE:

Don’t tell me I have to have two versions of CSS to make Firefox look like IE. That’s not my problem. That’s not my code slave’s problem. IE is still the dominant browser. If Firefox can’t replicate IE, then that is a problem for the Firefox brigade.

So I am off Firefox.

I am on Internet Explorer.

And Bill Gates is a Prick.