{"id":2363,"date":"2011-01-16T06:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T10:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2011-01-16T06:40:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T10:40:13","slug":"meanwhile-in-sj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2363","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile in SJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>ay back in 1998 and 1999, I<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2364\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2364\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CRW_6050-99x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Meanwhile, in SJ\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CRW_6050-99x150.jpg 99w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CRW_6050-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CRW_6050-680x1024.jpg 680w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CRW_6050.jpg 815w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/><\/a> switched to the Gecko-flavoured Phoenix web browser, which eventually was renamed into the browser you now know as Firefox. When Chrome came out, what, 2 years or so ago, I switched mainly because Firefox was becoming a hog. Looking at the current installed browsers on my main machine (Chrome 8, Opera 11 and Firefox 4 Beta), all of them seem to have taken over Chrome&#8217;s UI choices. That is, main menus have gone and tabs are now part of (in Windows lingo) the main &#8220;Window Caption&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway: Since Google recently announced that they were going to stop supporting the H264 video codec (<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/01\/14\/google-h-264-column\/\">Mashable editorial<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chromium.org\/2011\/01\/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html\">Google&#8217;s response to the announcement<\/a>), I thought it was time to look back and try the current dev\/beta of Firefox (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/beta\/\">Firefox 4 Beta<\/a>). I could start with a snark about the best new feature of &#8220;Four&#8221; (the Feedback button), but honestly, it looks like the dev-team has actually made progress. Most importantly, Firefox finally seems to startup faster than the other browsers. And at least, at this stage,\n<\/p>\n<p>So, is it time to return to the roots? Sort of: I&#8217;m not 100% convinced yet, but at least running Firefox would take care of that evil &#8216;Googletalk&#8217; plugin that pesters my system. On the other hand: Firefox does eat up a lot of memory right from the start.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> My famous 2006-ish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=922\">browser timeline<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 1998 and 1999, I switched to the Gecko-flavoured Phoenix web browser, which eventually was renamed into the browser you now know as Firefox. When Chrome came out, what, 2 years or so ago, I switched mainly because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2363\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[459,249,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}