Filed under: Mozilla, Open Source, Beta, Browsers
Experimental addon shifts Firefox's awesome bar into overdrive
If you use Firefox and want to get a taste of what might be coming in future versions, one addon worth installing is Shawn Wilsher's Asynchronous Location Bar Searches.
Mozilla's thinking is that Firefox will never be fast enough, and this addon takes aim at improving the performance of your awesome bar. I didn't include this one in my three must-haves, but it's a close fourth now that I've spent some time using it. Coupled with my search bookmarks, this has become one of my favorite browser productivity boosters.
While there was an initial glitch that cause some excessive resource use, that has been addressed in more recent builds. The addon has been working very well on my two systems running Firefox 3.5b4.
If you're the daring type and always looking for new ways to speed up Firefox, give the Async addon a try.
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, ...
