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Category Archives: Rants

Netflix: The Download Progress Bar is a Lie

Earlier this evening, I attempted to watch instant Netflix on my PS3. They been having problems lately, and on trying to watch a show, it got stuck in the middle of the download phase, clearly showing a download progress bar. I said, whatever, I’ll try back later when it’s less busy. So here I am [...]

Mutant Firefox 4/3.6 Hybrid Seen in the Wild

I wanted to be able to run both Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 4. Why? Because I’m a web developer, that’s why. In doing so, I have managed to create a mutant, Frankensteined Firefox 4/Firefox 3.6 hybrid. (See screenshot.) It has the new tab style, the larger back button, but is missing the big orange button [...]

Firefox 4, RC2 overwrites Firefox 3.6. Gee, thanks.

The Firefox betas, all 12 of them, used to nicely install alongside the production version of Firefox, version 3.6.x. When I installed Firefox 4 RC2, this is no longer the case: Firefox overwrites the old version. So far, installing Firefox 3.6.15 to its own directory (after installing FF 4) and making a shortcut by hand [...]

Census 2010 Data Site Has All the Latest in Fail

The 2010 data is finally starting to come out, and is available at the new website, American Factfinder, version 2. Problems: Using Google chrome (version 9), the ability to add a geographic filter fails silently. This is incredibly annoying. Many things (including clicking on what should be normal web pages) on the website require JavaScript.  [...]