Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time

So I installed Firefox 3 on two computers today. The first is my main Vista desktop. It had one crash after the first launch, but then ran fine the rest of the day. The second is my XP laptop, which I am writing on now. I have had 5 crashes in the last hour and so far am not a happy camper.

Not to focus on the negative, but here are a list of things I don’t like at first glance:

1. All the crashing. Can I have some stability please?

2. The address bar, or whatever they are calling now the magic bar or something. Why can’t it just bring up a list of previously entered websites like before. Don’t try to outsmart me and guess what I might want. So far it has always been wrong.

3. I miss the yellow address bar when on an https secure site. It was a nice visual clue. I know I can hack it to get it back, but that shouldn’t be necesarry.

I’m sure there will be good things I like about Firefox 3 and I will run it awhile longer to give it a chance. But at first glance it is enough to make me go back to Internet Explorer 7 or try another browser. I haven’t used Opera in forever, maybe it’s time to check it out again. Or Flock, which although it’s based on Firefox, is significantly different. I’ll report back my decision. Maybe I will be converted and love version 3, who knows?

Since I couldn’t (and still can’t) find my sandals my Crocs have become my main summer footwear. I wore them all vacation and they are still amazingly comfortable! Another nice benefit compared to my sandals is that they don’t get all funky when they get wet so I can wear them rain or shine or even to the beach in the water. They clean up super easy too, when they got all covered in sand I just stuck them under the faucet and set them out to dry. I am also loving the clog style and may have to get a pair of Birkenstock clogs for those times that Crocs aren’t appropriate.

It was crazy, on vacation it seemed every store had a huge display of Crocs. Even at the supermarket you could buy moc-Crocs called Dawgs. The selection was enormous as well, and maybe because of the competition the prices were a few dollars below normal. It was one of the only things that was cheaper interestingly enough.