alex.moskalyuk

I installed Service Pack 2 and upgraded to Firefox 1.0 Preview at the same time. Deciding that it was well worth it to revamp the entire browser look, I downloaded and installed Noia 2.0 eXtreme, which is more than nice looks. The buttons in the links toolbar are now as small as possible and don’t require any whitespace at the top and bottom, leaving more screen real estate for the Web page itself.

There are few other nuances - when connecting to a secure Web site, your address bar now gets pale yellow color, hinting that it’s not the normal browser mode, and when you’re back to white background, it’s good old Internet once again. The RSS auto-discovery feature is nice. TechInterviews.com, as any other site built on WordPress, features 3 XML feeds (two RSS in different formats and one Atom). It looks like after you hit the Bookmark… button, what’s getting bookmarked is the entries in the feed themselves, not the RSS file. Firefox does have an RSS and Atom reader extension, but it’s limited functionally, although it does produce a nice on-the-fly page from a single RSS feed.

The popups are managed in a nicer way, you get a warning below the Links bar, and from there a single click either puts the site on a whitelist or tells the browser to block the popups forever. The installation went pretty clean, which was surprising considering the previous versions of Firefox always told you to uninstall the ones you had before, and then the new install inevitably would botch the bookmarks and links toolbar. The 1.0 Preview installer actually went ahead and checked the updates for the available extensions, instead of leaving the exercise to the user. Nice.