Even though I just criticised Digg less than a week ago, I decided to subcribe the the RSS feed recently. And now I’ve just registered on it. Maybe you can blame this on summer boredom, but I only registered so that I could bury rather than actually ‘Digg’ something. I’ve only found one or two interesting things on it. Despite Digg’s good reputation, there are a lot of turds managing to float to the top.
Archive: Firefox
I have never blocked adverts in my life. I accept that this web malarkey has to be paid for somehow, so I don’t mind websites with adverts on them.
As long as they don’t get in the way of what I’m trying to read!
Adverts are getting more and more annoying, and it’s all down to the web’s worst-ever invention — Flash. Flash is only good for Weebl and Bob. All other Flash is either annoying navigation systems or stupendously annoying adverts.
Increasingly, adverts are obscuring the site’s content, taking a massive dump on an interesting article, then making you fish around for a little X which doesn’t even work when you click it. And they want me to buy their products??
Two particular culprits are Guardian Unlimited and ITV’s F1 website.
Well I’ve decided to block all Flash from now on. There is a wonderful Firefox extension called Flashblock (via Cynical Chatter From The Underworld). Instead of playing Flash movies straight away it displays a little play button so that you can choose if you want to see the Flash file. Hopefully this is the end of annoying Flash adverts.
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No real news there, except that I’ve just found out about a nifty Firefox plugin for smelly students like me who use the Athens authentication system, via Spontaneous Monotony.
It is an official Athens toolbar which lets you log in and log out easily, which is a godsend really because there have been many times when I have been left ripping my hair off in frustration because I’ve forgotten the convoluted log in system. It also shows you a list of the resources you can access through Athens. I didn’t know we could access the Oxford English Dictionary or The Scotsman Digital Archive. And I bet there’s loads of other dead important stuff in that list that I don’t understand yet.
While we’re talking about Firefox, I may as well mention that two thirds of visitors to this blog still use Internet Explorer. And the new design of this blog probably looks like absolute gash on Internet Exploder. It doesn’t look to great in Opera either, but I suppose that’s what you get for designing the whole thing in Firefox with the assistance of the Web Developer Toolbar.
Here’s how it looks on Firefox:
The moral of the story? Use Firefox, or at least Browse Happy.
Microsoft will adopt the Firefox RSS icon for IE7. Good news. (Via)
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