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New from Google… another BETA… yes now they have a new version. Along with bug fixes and those mundane things you can now…

• Put panels ANYWHERE!
• Sidebar Games!
• Chat in the sidebar
• Send stuff to another’s sidbar
• Password your Desktop Search
• More advanced search features
• Cleaned up the preferences page… YEAH FINALLY!
• And last but not least, Upload your desktop index to Google so you can search from anywhere.  Hmmm privacy anyone?

The last featureis disabled on my computer and will remain so.  But in light of how Google has been a privacy issue (search data) but protective of it.  But frankly I don’t need the feature… But take a look at the new version

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This site has a bunch of info on the recent cartoon capers!

I am simply disgusted by the entire Moslem community.  The fact is they are literally KILLING THEMSELVES because someone drew something they don’t like.  I believe that there are honest, intellegent and good Moslems around the world who are appalled byt this.  But their leadership is showing that they are antagonistic and hateful of all non Moslems.  All these people are showing is that they do NOT want to be a part of the global community.  The US has to be literally BOMBED and thousands dead before we go into a declared sanctioned war.  But communities can be destroyed, people killed, embassies razed (which IMHO is an act of war) because of a PICTURE.  I wish that they could see how bad they look to the rest of the world.  The concept of Freedom and Open thought is foreign to these people.  Granted the US is comming in with Democracy where the people decide.  But in these situations the people are not allowed to think, create or live outside of a narrow set of rules and if they do they are killed.  On no arab TV station will you see people saying that their goverment is STUPID or should be KILLED or they have LIED.  But in the US you can see it every night. 

I’m reminded of the movie “The Princess Bride” in which Inigo Montoya says “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” These rioter are saying “You drew a cartoon. Prepare to die.”

AT NO TIME has such violence and anger sprung up over the killing of people in the name of Allah or Mohammed.  These actions are adding fuel to the hatred of Moslems.  And showing that the ‘extremest’ ‘terrorist’ Moslems are in reality Not the extreme but the norm. 

I applaud the danish goverment for their stance of staying with free speech.  I appeal to the leaders of the Moslem community and world to put a stop to this.  It helps NOTHING.   It is harming EVERYTHING.

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Ok I’ve been running IE7 for a bit now… not just starting it up and going ooo it runs but having it as my default browser.  Yes DEFAULT.  Some really good things happened and some not so good and some I said some words my kids didn’t need to hear.  I’ll try not to slam IE or Firefox and rather than whine try and put a solution.  I do know that IE7 is BETA….

• Fast Fast Fast.. Yes it’s fast… MUCH BETTER THAN FIREFOX with less memory… And YES I’ve tried the compiles of Firefox for my system.  DON’T START ABOUT THE “Well some of the stuff IE uses is hidden within the system memory” Because I don’t think 200MB is hidden when the system is using 400MB of ram and Firefox is using 200MB.  I do feel that because the Firefox codebase is multiplatform, specific windows api calls that would enable a LOT less memory and processor usage are unable to be used.  It’s kinda like legos. You have some knock offs which have a lot of the standard pieces.  But to build a Millenium Falcon you can try and piece it together with stadard pieces or get some of the special Lego brand pieces. The only resolution is to fork the Firefox code and put in these types of optimizations but this would increase the update lifecycle and cause a NIGHTMARE with extension builders.  Not that it cannot be done just really really tough to coordinate.
• Tabs WHO DOESN’T LIKE EM? They even close with a middle click!  But there are some issues with how IE uses them you’ll see later on…
• Popups Pretty much ok on the popup blocker. 
• ActiveX Security I get the warnings.  VERY NICE! This resolves almost all of the “Well it uses ActiveX So it’s BAD”.  At this point it’s USER EDUCATION.  I’ve been on a LOT of websites.  MOST do not install ActiveX CRAP.  The ones that do are USUALLY in 2 categorys.  Porn or Hacking.  I’m not going to touch on the porn but if you’re not an intermediate or advanced computer user DON’T GO TO THESE SITES!  To go and install these things is to each chewing gum from the bottom of a table in a seedy bar.
• Roboform - Yeah it works!
• Definatly Doable - I can use it as my browser on a daily basis.   I would be BLOWN AWAY if I never had used Firefox.  But it’s a sizeable feature upgrade (albiet 2 years late) to IE. 

Ok now for the bad stuff

• Rendering - Popfile looks like CRAP in this browser.  Worked FINE in IE6, IE 5, Opera, Netscape, Firefox.  But now there are things WRONG.  A few other sites just DON’T LOOK RIGHT
• ACID2 - Did MS people say WE DON’T NEED NO STANDARDS?  Granted it renders most sights fine but have to seen this?  Firefox at least gets a circle somewhat together.  This looks like the smilie face was run over by a steam roller.  
• Tabs - give them a sticker for effort.  Yes the work.  Not enough features.  In Firefox I can have only 1 browser and if a link is opened from another program it sucks it in. IE opens a NEW browser.  No this is NOT popups this is opening from Google Desktop Sidebar, Email, Start menu.  There’s a total of  5 checkboxes and 3 radio buttons for configuration.  With Firefox I have Tabbrowser Extensions.  which has like 200 options.  The open new tab button is blank on my  system except when moused over… This is something that they can resolve with a few patches.  NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO FIX….
• Missing Extensions - This is just whiny.   But I LOVE the Performancing Blogging Extension and a bunch of other development extensions.

Ok so I’ve been using it for about a week now… and I like no LOVE the speed.  Browser windows POP.  It reminds me of the trick of changing the menu display speed for Windows.  It just feels FASTER.  Less memory all this makes it GREAT tabs are a step in the right direction.  Will I throw out my Firefox HELL NO!  But I’m curious to see how MS goes with this.