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If you’ve at all looked near the top of this blog I promote the use of FireFox (or other W3C compliant browsers).  I’ve never liked Internet Explorer and with the release of IE7 my feelings didn’t change.  It’s still not compliant and knowing Microsoft it never will be.

Well The Mozilla Foundation is putting the final touches on FireFox 3 - the highly anticipated release that FireFox users are hoping will take care of several bugs and annoyances.  I’ve been using FF3 for about two weeks now and have found it to be as stable as FF2 while being substantially faster at loading pages.  It still has some issues with plug-in support - but it’s up to the author of the plug-in to supply a properly coded plug-in.  At this point 7 of the 20 plug-ins I’ve been running on FF2 do not work with FF3.  Not a huge deal and at this point and I’ve not really missed them.

Is it me or has Google grown? I know that’s sort of a rhetorical question but I guess I get so accustomed to utilizing Google from my browser’s toolbar I never took the time to really notice what Google has been up to. And I’ve got to say, I’m rather impressed. I know there are plenty of people convinced that any company that large and with that much control is too large and has too much control. But come on - at least Google doesn’t treat their users like Microsoft (can you say Vista?) or even Apple. I found it pretty interesting that Google makes much of their code available to outside users - even for profit companies. I’d like to see Microsoft or Apple do that (without asking for an arm, leg and your next born in return).

A few things about Google that really intrigue me: