Filed under: Productivity, Mozilla, Search, Browsers
Firefox's new tab page adds a bit of RSS
Built-in start pages are all the rage in the latest browsers. Chrome and Safari each show slick-looking selection of your most visited pages when you open a new tab, and now Firefox is getting into the game with its own new tab page for version 3.5 (formerly known as version 3.1). The Firefox About:Tab page isn't as flashy as the other two, but it might be a bit more practical, now that it features a little bit of RSS. Firefox's new tab screen-- previously covered on Download Squad -- now shows an unobtrusive list of your top sites down the side of the page, instead of the full-page graphical layouts other browsers use. It also shows a button to Google search or Google Map whatever's in your clipboard with one click. The real advantage of the list format over the graphical version wasn't obvious to me until the latest version of About:Tab, though: the list is ideal for displaying a few RSS items from your top sites, so you know if they've been updated before you click through. This new RSS feature works automatically, and -- for me, anyway -- it gives Firefox the edge over Chrome or Safari's start pages.
Start pages and portals have become all the rage these days, with everyone from Netvibes, AOL (our parent company) and Facebook getting in on the action. Word on the street is that search is a pretty hot market as well, and we can understand if Google and Yahoo!'s tried and true approach doesn't quite cut it for those who demand more out of search. Offering an unassuming, slick and simple UI, 
A few years ago trying to browse the web on a PDA or mobile phone was an exercise in futility. Not only was rendering web pages too much work for slow mobile processors, but many mobile devices had anemic screen resolutions of 160 x 160 pixels. 
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, ...
