Firefox 3 Usability

While I generally like Firefox, I think it's usability has suffered with the release of Firefox 3. They seem intent on making it look the same as the platform it's on. Firefox is my interface to everything, I really don't care whether I'm on windows, linux or mac. The browser is now MORE important than what platform it's on, and I think they can dictate their own look and feel. If you want a platform matching browser you can use the native one, IE, Safari, Epiphany, or Konqueror. I really want the keyhole button in my linux browser, since I move between different OS's, but now it looks inconsistent. In windows there is also an X for the Stop Loading button. I think of an X as close, and it's not clear that that means Stop Loading to me. Bring back the stop sign! I'll probably change my theme to work in these ways eventually, but it would have been nice to be better out of the box.

Moved data to blogger

I finally got around to moving my old postings into blogger, after an evening of cutting and pasting. I found out that if I post many entries to blogger in one day they start throwing captcha's at you for each entry, so that kinda slowed me down a bit. I swear they got harder and harder too, like some were instead proving that I was human by not being able to read them and had to try again, not that I was not a robot.