Michael's Weblog

I just saw a post somewhere advocating the FireBug extension for Firefox, so I decided to go and install it to see what it's like. I clicked the link, but since I'm running Firefox 2, things were a bit different - instead of saying it will be installed when I restart, it said "Restart Now". When I clicked that, it warned me all my tabs would close, so I let it do that. Then, it restarted, and came back up with the same contents in all the tabs - including a Bloglines window, complete with posts being displayed, that wouldn't have appeared properly if it had only used the URL and not pulled it from cache. That was very cool. It's a minor thing, but very nice to have.

Incidentally, Firefox 2 seems to be a lot faster than 1.5, and looks a bit nicer too - again, nothing major, but minor improvements all over the place. I think the new tab bar (with close buttons on every tab) is cool, though since I remembered to start using middle-click all the time, I use it less than I would have done before. Highly recommended.