PolicyGuy

Friday, November 19, 2004


I Love Firefox. I hate Firefox.
For the last two months or so, I have been using the Firefox browser; Internet Explorer resides on the computer, but I don't launch it unless I have to.

Here's what is great about Firefox. It opens quicker than MSIE. The search function within a web page is fantastic. (It's hard to explain, so I won't try. Let's say it beats MSIE by a mile). The thing that people like most about it, though, is the ability to do "tabbed browsing." Think of it as browsing windows within a window. Very nice. (No more icon after icon lined up on the Windows task bar.)

Here's what I have grown to hate about Firefox lately: it doesn't play well with Adobe Acrobat 6. Note I said Acrobat (the full-fledged program that lets you create and mark up PDF files), not Acrobat Reader.

After I upgraded (you know where this is going, don't you?) from 1.0PR (pre-release) to 1.0, Firefox hung whenever I launched Acrobat.

So I did some googling, and decided that installing Acrobat READER 6.0 would do the trick. (In other words, reserve the full Acrobat program until I needed to actually mark up documents, which usually isn't the case if I am just web browsing.)

I still get a system hang-up whenever I "accidentally" click on a link that requires an Adobe product.

What to do?

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

Home
BlogMatrix