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Add-on overload - Installing 200 Firefox extensions at once
If nothing else, we humans are good at pushing the limits of common sense just to see what will happen. Installing a ridiculous number of add-ons (and taking pictures, of course) has long been a tradition for Internet Explorer, uh, "enthusiasts," and now the Firefox fans are carrying the torch: Inspired by a 100-extension test back in February, the fine folks at CyberNotes doubled their pleasure and installed 200 add-ons in Firefox 2. The result? Well, it isn't pretty. Predictably, the screen is almost totally overwhelmed by toolbars, leaving but a few square inches for actually navigating the web. Perhaps more impressive is the Tools menu which takes up almost two full screen heights. What's impressive, though, is even after two hundred add-ons are installed, CyberNotes finds that Firefox still, essentially, works, and takes up a hefty but not outlandish 200MB of RAM.[Thanks, TJ!]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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RP said 12:07PM on 12-06-2006
That's insane!
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enzo said 12:16PM on 12-06-2006
Reminds me of the picture of iexplorer on the Wikipedia Entry for spyware.
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Freezer said 12:09AM on 12-07-2006
Damn... I thought my 24 extensions was pushing things!
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Aalaap said 11:41PM on 12-06-2006
I don't have the courage to install so many extensions on my PC (I keep everything clean and stock as much as possible), but I wonder if you could do so and then use the pretty AutoHide extension (http://www.lifehacker.com/software/fullscreen/download-of-the-day-autohide-firefox-217327.php) to swipe this entire toolbar orgy right out of the screen...
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s1pacrat said 12:44AM on 12-07-2006
Hey, is that running in vista?
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Asten said 10:04AM on 12-07-2006
200 meg... for now! Wait until you keep it running for 12 hours. Firefox with merely the google toolbar has leaked its way to over 700 meg inside a day on my machine.
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Tom said 12:50PM on 12-07-2006
@enzo: you mean the screenshot linked to in the post? See the words "a tradition" in the second sentence.
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Eleventeen said 11:02AM on 12-08-2006
You forgot Poland.
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