tearing tabs.

Are you using Firefox 3.5 yet?  Ever notice that new Chrome-ish feature?  When dragging and moving tabs (and sometimes when not) and you drag it over or just below the tab bar level, it moves that tab to a new window and closes the tab from the old one?

It’s pretty annoying when it happens unintentionally, and even more so, when the tab you’ve just moved is loading, say, a form, or maybe a buffering video.  As of yet, there’s no option to turn it off — so for now, you’ll just have to settle for this nifty little addon: bug489729.

What it does after install is, it gives you the option to turn off detach tabs.

Just go to Tools > Add-ons > bug489729 > Options and put a click on the “Disable detach tab” checkbox — now you’re all set!  Enjoy!

hrudu

Two months with Chrome has been … different.  Not that it’d take you two months to realize how important some of the Firefox-only plug-ins are, or that flash video players suck the lifeforce out of your system’s resources with it — its just that you start wishing Chrome was a little more like Firefox, fast, plus the extra added fat of add-ons.

Enter Firefox Minefield — the currently-in-development browser follow-up from Mozilla.  Featuring what is said to be the fastest javascript engine in a browser, (reportedly 10% faster than Chrome!) it gives Firefox a fighting chance against Chrome adopters.  (Competition is healthy.)

The only downside is, it’s still in pre-release, so there’s none of the extra fatty add-ons that you and I hoped for.  So if you’re feeling brave (it is slightly faster than your average firefox, it is a bomb, after all) — get it here.  If you can wait just a bit, might as well look forward to Shiretoko.

Does being add-on-less make browsing faster?  Regardless of which flavor your browser is?

yahoo! open strategy presscon.

September 30, 2008 – Yahoo! Philippines organized a little introduction for Yahoo!’s Open Strategy (Y!OS) at the National Sports Grill in Greenbelt — with Jojo Anonuevo (General Manager of Yahoo! Philippines), Sau Sheong Chang (Head of Engineering for Yahoo! Southeast Asia) and Andrei Navarro (Yahoo! Open Hack Day 2008 Philippine Representative) heading the discussion.

What is Yahoo! Open Strategy? In a nutshell, Yahoo! Is letting developers see the wires behind some of their services, making APIs/SDKs available directly from them while following OpenSocial standards.

This is in keeping with their “new direction” plan from last year. (From this blog entry: “Deliver open, industry-leading platforms that attract the most publishers and developers.”)

Which is exactly the way to go — we’re now in an age where we don’t refer to sites as ‘websites’ anymore, we’re on a closer first-name basis. (I’ll Digg your YouTubes.) Now that the web is having a more direct impact on user’s lives, it has to be more personal, customizable and social than ever. (Listen to Tom Serling winging it in “August.”)

Plus, since I’ve made the reference: my cousin isn’t merely a developer — much like Josh Sterling from Landshark (search it) — he makes something where yesterday there was nothing.  (Like SOME of the fictional parts in my thesis, back in college.)

So why isn’t there a LARGE developer network here yet? (A la-Silicon Valley?) Maybe I should’ve asked that question. (The answer that excludes money and passion issues.)

As a bonus, I DID get to discuss bits of social media — well, not in front of everyone, but still, that was nice.

[Album here.]

[ABS-CBN News version]

amoebas with blogs.

As a follow-up to the first Bill Gates/Seinfeld/Microsoft ad, they came out with a new one, featuring Bill and Jerry staying over with a family — “to get in touch with the people.”  A little less bizarre than the first one — although the theme is much more solid here: Microsoft is planning on hiring “gurus” for big stores to help consumers put the “personal” in “personal computers.”

worst captcha ever, pt. 2.

The good news: Rapidshare got a facelift!

The sour news: Still the worst captcha ever!  Written in bold letters, the security question says “Only enter symbols attached to a cat.”  — You see it, I see it, Rapidshare dudes must’ve seen it.  Wait … aren’t they ALL cats, in ALL the symbols?

(Rapidshare.de still looks the same though.)

a series of unfortunate events: cleanliness.

I go OC-Monk-style when it comes to my things. So when I got home last night and noticed that the room was clean — I was going berserk. (I’m sure my lola meant well, pero …) I noticed a toy on top of the computer monitor was on the floor.

(The computer was booting Windows as I did this) I picked up the toy, it got tangled in the extension cord wires, resulting in a disco of off-and-ons for the AVR. (Whee.)

I tried starting up the computer, lo and behold, a crucial system file, hal.dll has gone missing/corrupt.

Tried looking for an installer, and while it worked, the XP installer doesn’t recognize my SATA harddrive, so I can’t repair. I could run drivers for the SATA on floppy, if only my floppy drive worked, plus, to make the said floppy, I have to be in Windows. (Who uses floppy disks nowadays?)

And that’s what you get from cleanliness. As I type, I’m running Ubuntu from a CD I found in the mess. Running the OS from the CD means running slower and running it in read-only mode, so I can’t mount my IDE drives, plus, since I need to save some files, I’m using my flash drive as HD. Go resourcefulness?

It looks like I’m not the only one having computernet woes. Moral of the story? Hide the key better, or never clean up.

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