TheWeeJenny.net

Firefox 3 RC1 + Nightly Tester Tools plugin (makes most of my incompatible plugins work again). There is an about:config hack that sort of does the same thing but for some reason that didn’t work for me at all on Windows (the browser would crash without even launching). Sounds crazy, but I’m also using the Flash 10 beta with it, and everything is smooth and speedy.

Your own mileage may vary, but so far it’s greatly improved my online experience. Our connection to the net tends to be a little tenuous and sluggish in nature (for a broadband connection that’s supposed to be 3mb down but can dip well below the 1mb mark at times), but you’d hardly know it now. It’s at least as fast as Safari, and I haven’t been crashing like usual on either my Leaopard or Windows XP installations.

I was very happy to learn that Flash 10 is (and will be) available on ALL platforms simultaneously. I remember waiting for some usable version of flash 9 to be released for Linux back when I first experimented with Ubuntu a couple years ago, it was incredibly frustrating. I’m a bit of an OS bigamist, so multiplatform support is kinda a big deal to me.

The big test will be when I watch this weeks Coronation Street episodes on the CBC website. Usually, I try to start the forth or fifth ep and the browser just crashes, despite my efforts to clear the cache after each one. Wish me luck!

Update: It still crashes after watching 4 of 5 episodes, oh well. Probably something to do with the website itself eh?