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Gmail and Firefox 2.0.0.14 hate each other. Latest FF has mem leaks?

Block that annoying Flash with the Firefox Flashblock addon (Firefox v1.5 or later).

grep |more of what I can do with OPML.

I installed and tested the OPML Reader extension for Firefox (supported in Firefox 1.x and 2.x).

With this add-on you can open a feed reader for any OPML auto-discovery enabled page with the option to view it with Optimal OPML Browser or Grazr. You can also download the OPML file.

After installing the extension restart Firefox. A small OPML icon is placed in the lower right corner of the browser. The icon is gray if no OPML file is found, blue if it discovers an enabled OPML file at the site you are browsing. Simply double-click on the blue icon to read OPML files in the Firefox browser. Very cool.

I enabled my site OPML outline file with the addition of the following auto-discovery tag to my header template:

<link rel=”outline” type=”text/xml+opml” title=”my OPML fileTitle” href=”http://mySite.com/myFile.opml” />

OPML, RSS, Grazr, Optimal Browser, Firefox sweetness!

Last Wednesday in a wordy post about free things you need to do for your site, I ranted a bit about slow loading issues with Feedburner links in the Firefox browser.

Yesterday, I downloaded and installed the new Firefox 2.0, Release candidate 2, and bam!

Not only is it much faster, but they have a new feed viewer option where you can elect to preview nicely formatted feeds and/or select an application like Bloglines, My Yahoo!, or Google Reader (select Tools-Options-Feeds). When set to preview the browser will display nicely formatted Atom, RSS 2.0 , RDF/RSS 1.0, and RSS 0.92 feeds. Goodbye feed reader extensions.

There is an RSS icon in the http address bar, just click to preview nicely formatted feed within the browser and then select an app if you wish to subscribe. Too cool. I have been using Firefox since v0.7, was thrilled from the start, and I am now in browsing heaven.

So, to Don L. at Feedburner, I no longer have a slow loading Feedburner link in Firefox issue. Cheers!

Tech Support Alert gives you a simple, easy way to disable Microsoft Internet Explorer on your desktop.

Comprehensive review of Internet Explorer - IE7, Beta2 by
Dan Glazman Some excerpts:

Feeds management has nothing impressive. In fact, it’s even poor compared to the first shareware aggregators available on the Web for IE6. On the contrary, the presentation of feeds in the content window is superb, and clearly suffers from the
lack of an improved feeds manager.

Overall, and if I compare Firefox 1.0 or Firefox 1.5 and IE7b2, Firefox is far ahead of IE in terms of usability, accessibility, extensibility.

This is a test post from the latest release of the Flock browser, v0.5.12. Sending the test post to a WordPress.com weblog, blog, bloggity!