Filed under: Mozilla, Open Source
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, ...
