I've been a loyal Firefox user for a long time

But after 45 minutes of it locking up on me, I decided to try Google Chrome (not the for the first time; I think I tried it when it first started, but one of the IT guys at work and I were talking the other day and it's what he uses at home, mainly because the Google Toolbar, with Google's bookmarks, no longer work with Firefox, and he likes to be able to access them. So, I was considering trying it again--the problem with the freeze-up just really galvanised me to do so). One thing I notice is that this page no longer loads in the middle. Not sure what was up with that, but whenever I viewed it in Firefox, it did so, and I'd have to scroll up.

It imported a lot of my settings; I'm not sure about the passwords though. We'll see. In the meantime, my space bar just got horribly stuck. I'm not having good computer karma tonight and am considering just going on to bed rather than try to get anything else done this weekend.

Oh, speaking of computers, I am really excited that we are finally moving from Windows XP to Windows 7 at work and I'm getting my upgrade on Friday. Woo-hoo.

Gods, I am such a geek.

Anyway, hope you had a good weekend, and that the week ahead is a good one.

Okay, I really doubt this was a quality study, but it made my little Firefox-using self smile

Internet Explorer Users Are Dumber, Study Shows

Of course, it also came from Fox News. I think a similar study would find some interesting things about their viewers compared to say, the New York Times readers, but that's just my terribly liberal opinion. :)

A company called AptiQuant, a self-proclaimed "world leader in the field of online psychometric testing," published the results of an online study that tested the IQs of users and grouped the results according to which browser respondents used.

The study found that users of Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera were all slightly above average in IQ test results, but Microsoft Internet Explorer users tended to be lower on the IQ scale.

IQ testing is very problematic in person, much less online, so I don't think we can really state the results as being all that great in terms of validity. But it did give me a little wakeup laugh this morning.

PS Laugh not withstanding, my doubts as to the study were indeed confirmed, as it appears to have been a hoax.

Internet Explorer story was bogus

Fox News was just one of the first media giants to jump on the story. Even the BBC and CNN got caught in it. But it still gave me a laugh, this time for two reasons. :)

Frustration

I have spent the last two hours trying to get the settings right in Internet Explorer to watch videos on YouTube. Everything is correct according to the YouTube help files. I have the latest Flash player, javascripts are enabled, yada yada. Just one day they stopped working. I can watch embedded videos on other sites, including this one, just not on the YouTube page itself. Plus I can watch them with no trouble in both Firefox and Chrome. I even changed firewall programs since this had been an issue for a friend at one point.

Grrr.

Chrome freezes a lot, although I like it otherwise, but I've decided to just stick with Firefox. It seems to be the faster, less buggy, browser that lets me actually do what I want to.

Okay, frustration mollified somewhat.