I gave it a bit of a try earlier. As many others have said, the lack of an ad blocker in particular and add-ons in general are reason enough for me to stay with Firefox. Chrome was fast to start and load pages and does seem to have good features, and I know it's an early beta, but it's just not good enough to…

I would note that while it's true you can apparently try to get this deal with just a .edu address, the terms and conditions for eligibility also state that you have to be enrolled in at least 0.5 course credit and be able to provide proof of enrollment upon request. If you can't, you're going to have to pay the…

This is interesting, and could be useful, but I think it may be slightly confusing. The entry for "Published after 2002" has the requirements "created before 1979 and author died more than 70 years ago", so you can't "go nuts" on everything after 2002. Publications made "After March 1, 1989" with or without a…

I saw this yesterday, but didn't manually run an update because of issues noted here in the comments. I wasn't having major problems before though, either. At work today, I was notified that an update was available, and it offered to show me what add-ons were incompatible with the update. It was only Tab Mix Plus,…

It looks like the comment I tried to enter earlier wasn't accepted. I didn't have any real problems getting this tip to work. I went to manage styles, then write, pasted in the copied text, and saved it. I'm not sure what would cause problems installing it. *shrug*

I just installed v3, and it seems OK. As others have noted, it looks like the add-ons web site is getting pounded, too, because I'm having trouble trying to search for v3 compatible updates to my add-ons. The most important ones have updated themselves and appear to work fine. A bunch don't work though, and they…

I have to admit, I expected it to be available this morning when I got to work, but it wasn't. It actually made me wonder if I had the right date. When I saw this article, I realized that Mozilla was basing it's starting time on Pacific time (where they're based) — 3 hours behind my time on the east coast. Oh well.…

Yes and no. I think I could get work to pay for some items, but then they would belong to my employer. Purchasing through official channels and getting reimbursed can be a bit slow or complicated sometimes, too. It's generally easier to just buy my own stuff.

As far as I know, most of my co-workers don't check e-mail from a mobile device, so I usually I write normally. That tends to the long side, but mainly because I often explain points in the message. I do know one person in my company who's often on a mobile device though. When he's one of the people I'm writing to,…

It sounds like this is only for HTML signatures. Since I normally write e-mails in plain text, I'd like to see one of these multiple signature programs/scripts do the same thing for plain text signatures. As it is now, I have one signature that includes only part of my information; I manually type in the rest…

I haven't decided exactly what I want to do with it. Chances are I'll do what I usually do with my annual tax refunds — spend part of it and save part of it. I don't usually spend a lot on myself, so when I get some extra money like this, I do like to use some of it. The rest stays in my checking account for future…

Yes, I use browser bookmarks, but I don't see a poll choice that really fits for me. I generally only use two computers — one at home and one at work. I add bookmarks to the browser (Firefox) at both places. However, I don't attempt to synchronize them or make one set accessible to the other, because I *want* them…

I agree with the others here that this seems like something that should be handled by the system. I was wondering why I can't set my time zone and see post times in my local time. Most web boards and such that I've seen let users set their time zone and then adjust the times of posts automatically. Is there a…

This article comes at a perfect time for me. In a few weeks, I'm going to China to present a paper at a conference, and I was wondering about how to handle the electronic devices I intend to bring. Thanks for posting this. I'll look at it in more detail later.

VOTE: Vim (or gvim)

I've pretty much always coded HTML by hand. I don't have a real problem with WYSIWYG tools and such, though I've never used them myself. People should use whatever is easiest for them to get the job done. The only time tools annoy me is when they add junk to the code that I end up editing/maintaining by hand. From…

I had the download error last night from home, and fixed it as others said — by downloading the file to my computer and opening it in Firefox. This morning at work, I tried getting the update and it worked without having to do that. Thanks, Gina. It looks like you fixed the problem, and this is a useful add-on to…

@thelouisguy: I got the same message when I tried forwarding my Hotmail account to my Gmail account. It wouldn't let me do it. That's a little annoying, but since the Hotmail forward set-up page also says that they will delete accounts after 120 days of inactivity, it may not be such a bad thing to be forced to go…

This is an interesting idea to help create a quick and easy way to spot quality comments/contributions. Initially giving the stars to people with many followers makes some sense, but as already noted popularity does not necessarily equate to good comments. Outside of that, the rule seems to be to "often contribute…

There are a ton of comments here, and I don't have time to read them all. Here are a few of my thoughts on IM clients (I haven't voted in the poll though).