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October 24, 2006 6:00 PM

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So after what was apparently hundreds of days I turned my Xbox back on and tried a few of them newfangled games out. The past few months I've been enjoying a few PC games but I figured it was time to diversify or something. NBA Live 07 eats balls but 2K7 isnt bad.

- The Mars aliens are hiding from us
- YouTube will give you up to the feds
- Netflix still hot, so is Amazon
- Russian mafia getting in on stem cell scams
- We need two earths

Lastly, hey girls FireFox 2 has been released!

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indosauros

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October 24, 2006 6:00 PM

<3 Firefox 2 <3
- rudds
  
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  October 24, 2006 6:02 PM
  
  Seriously, I am loving this thing. It brought my entire profile over perfectly and after about three quick tweaks I made it look exactly like I wanted it to (just like 1.5).
  
  Not to mention it's noticeably faster and it uses far less memory. Word.
- aeg1x
  
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  October 24, 2006 6:03 PM
  
  I have to say it's pretty sweet. Spellchecking ftw. D: I misspelt spell checking.
- theamazingrand0
  
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  October 24, 2006 6:06 PM
  
  I'm gonna give it a few weeks. I can't be without my extenstions, otherwise I'd just use Opera
- kainen1
  
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  October 24, 2006 6:07 PM
  
  I need to D/L this. I love mozilla period.
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    October 24, 2006 6:19 PM
    
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      October 24, 2006 6:20 PM
      
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      - slickdoody
        
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        October 24, 2006 6:21 PM
        
        lay off the barnyard party sites, eh?
- electroly
  
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  October 24, 2006 6:07 PM
  
  I want to like Firefox 2, but the new theme looks terrible on Mac OS X :( It looks like it was plucked straight from the Windows theme with no thought to how Mac applications are supposed to look. The previous theme fit into OSX very well :(
  - Goncyn
    
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    October 24, 2006 6:13 PM
    
    http://kmgerich.com/2006/08/05/firefox-1x-classic-themes-available/
    - electroly
      
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      October 24, 2006 6:14 PM
      
      Noted. FF2 also makes the Yahoo! Toolbar get all fucked up and huge, which wouldn't be fixed by that :( I'll just have to wait until they update the Y! toolbar.
      - glio1337
        
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        October 24, 2006 6:15 PM
        
        Get Google toolbar, its bettar =P
        
        electroly
        
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        October 24, 2006 6:18 PM
        
        The Google toolbar doesn't do the one thing I use the Yahoo! toolbar for, which is bookmarks. Google Sync does, but I didn't really like GS's approach at all, and Y! toolbar is already 100% bulletproof.
    - Zero|DPX
      
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      October 24, 2006 6:23 PM
      
      Even better: http://kmgerich.com/2006/09/27/pinstripe-for-firefox-now-with-20-more-macintosh/
      
      The new version of Pinstripe rox0rs my sox0rs.
      - electroly
        
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        October 24, 2006 6:26 PM
        
        I'm amused by the order of the Next and Previous buttons.
      - gokart.
        
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        October 24, 2006 7:46 PM
        
        this theme borked my FF2 :(
        
        i have no menu bar, and the safemode command isn't the same in FF2 apparently.
        
        gokart.
        
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        October 24, 2006 7:50 PM
        
        nm im retarded.
      - maddy
        
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        October 24, 2006 10:05 PM
        
        Yeah, I like this theme, too. Looks very slick. I have to admit that, Firefox fan though I may be, I still mostly use Safari on my Mac... but FF2 with that theme may get me to be all-Firefox on every OS (which I'm trying to avoid).
  - glio1337
    
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    October 24, 2006 6:14 PM
    
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1323/
  - mr brown
    
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    October 24, 2006 6:20 PM
    
    I just want to get rid of the gray tabs
  - Conan
    
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    October 24, 2006 6:42 PM
    
    I think it's okay, but I wish they'd do better Gnome integration - as is, dark themes often have the wrong text color on menus.
- GameBrink
  
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  October 24, 2006 6:16 PM
  
  INLINE SPELLCHECK OMFG I LOVE YOU FIREFOX 2
  - fluke
    
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    October 24, 2006 6:59 PM
    
    tis pretty nice feature.
  - boring gegtik
    
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    October 24, 2006 7:07 PM
    
    even works with gchat in gmail.. so cool
- kelerian
  
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  October 24, 2006 6:17 PM
  
  Yeah, previously I always end up back with IE because little things annoy me when they don't work right, but I think this time I will actually stick with it! Seems great now.
- jrock
  
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  October 24, 2006 6:44 PM
  
  just tell me that all my 1.5 extensions will work fine and i will doubleclick the exe
  - RikiTiki2
    
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    October 24, 2006 6:47 PM
    
    mine seem to work
  - Gauss
    
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    October 24, 2006 6:47 PM
    
    nope, several of mine don't, and I'm back to using 1.5
    - jrock
      
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      October 24, 2006 6:50 PM
      
      Here's what I use:
      
      e-Quake, Linkification, Fasterfox, PDF Download, Web Developer, Adblock Plus, Flashblock, and I have Greasemonkey for the Shack PRL Timer and Post Preview add-ins.
      - Githyanki
        
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        October 24, 2006 7:49 PM
        
        You may have to disable plugin version checking. I had to for greasemonkey. It works, but is not enabled if you dont change the config.
        http://mozdev.org/pipermail/greasemonkey/2006-October/009404.html
        
        dirtboxer
        
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        October 24, 2006 10:59 PM
        
        http://greaseblog.blogspot.com/ It's been updated for 2.
  - CrazyPants
    
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    October 24, 2006 6:49 PM
    
    8/10 of mine worked, and one of them is now a standard feature in firefox. Even the Pimpzilla theme works (after I found the update).
  - abrasion
    
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    October 24, 2006 6:52 PM
    
    Not all of them - but more than most upgrades surprisingly.
- moogle
  
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  October 24, 2006 7:06 PM
  
  Tabmixplus needs to work :(
  - sanchez
    
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    October 24, 2006 7:07 PM
    
    ^^went back to 1.5 because I need it
    - moogle
      
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      October 24, 2006 7:17 PM
      
      I am struggling without it :(
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        sgtsanity
        
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        October 24, 2006 7:45 PM
        
        Hahahaha
        
        The FAQ is currently down. Please come back at a later time.
        
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- Nitrium
  
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  October 24, 2006 7:48 PM
  
  Now we just need a Quick Find extension that fixes the new one when just typing text to find something. The new one is dumb, it should work like 1.5. I hate pressing CTRL+F5 to find text :(
- vault 03
  
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  October 24, 2006 7:53 PM
  
  I thought it was supposed to open links in new tabs now? Am I missing a new setting? I even checked it in the tabs options under tools.
  - vault 03
    
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    October 24, 2006 7:54 PM
    
    By this I mean I want it to open a link I click on the Shack into a new tab instead of replacing the current tab, for example.
    - Zero|DPX
      
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      October 24, 2006 9:22 PM
      
      None of the options in the prefs window let you do that. I don't know if some hidden setting somewhere else does.
      
      I suppose you could always just middle-click everything.
      - rosewood
        
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        October 24, 2006 10:37 PM
        
        That is what I've been doing for a few years now. really bugs the shit out of me when websites use elements that don't let me do that.
        
        FushigiDenki
        
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        October 24, 2006 10:40 PM
        
        Flash sucks.
- Nixx2004
  
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  October 24, 2006 8:40 PM
  
  2 is less than 3, correct.
- smax
  
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  October 24, 2006 9:51 PM
  
  if you haven't done it yet you might want to enable "Use a master password" in the security options.
  
  That way you need to enter a password to use the "Show Passwords..." button. A useful feature, but just a little bit scary :O
  - Zero|DPX
    
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    October 24, 2006 10:35 PM
    
    If someone ,alicious can sit down at my machine and hit that button, I have a lot more to worry about than them getting my website passwords.
    
    I'll take the convenience.
    - Zero|DPX
      
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      October 24, 2006 11:36 PM
      
      You generally wouldn't.
      
      It's an accessibility feature more than anything else, a way of jumping to a particular link on a page (try starting it with ' instead of /) and then following that link with <enter>. There's historical reasons. The whole thing is retarded but I can't convince the Firefox owner of that :)
      - Zero|DPX
        
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        October 24, 2006 11:37 PM
        
        Dammit, that was meant for #1768
- sketchuout
  
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  October 24, 2006 10:54 PM
  
  I don't understand Quick Find... why would I use this over Ctrl-F?
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  October 24, 2006 11:36 PM
  
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