This feature already gaining a lot of attention, and I believe that once it shows up, and people really start extending it, it will be one of the Killer Features that Firefox will have to offer. Something that is really needed for Firefox to start biting back some market share from Chrome.

An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Regular Generate & Copy public SSH keys

$ ssh-keygen; ssh-copy-id user@host; ssh user@host

Just change the user@host and you’re on your way.

Custom Port

If your host has a different SSH access port, then it get’s a little trickier, but still works:

$ ssh-keygen; ssh-copy-id ‘-p XXXX -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub username@host’; ssh user@host

Note that the ssh-copy-id call is a little different, and execute in quotes (if you copy & paste, the single-quotes can cause error, so replace them with normal single-quotes).

Source: Simple, Custom Port

This could mean a lot, and perhaps explain why some places cannot manage simpler tasks they did manage before bringing in some heavy duty expert.

Quote from the article:

Another light in which it might be informative to view this study is with respect to research into what’s called “stereotype threat.” This is a well-known effect in which stigmatized groups — such as African-Americans or women — perform worse when prompted to focus on negative stereotypes about their group. Thus, African-Americans taking the SAT, if asked to check a box listing their race before the test, will perform worse than if they were not promoted to do so. Conversely, Asian students asked to mark their race tend to perform better, because of positive stereotypes about academic achievement.

Or, take the case of a female, Asian student — prompted to think about her Asian identity, she is likely to perform better; prompted to think about her female identity, she is likely to do worse.

I want to build me one of those…

Back then, when I had a lot more time on my hands and reddit didn’t exist, a new version of an uprising browser named Firefox was releasing in late November, that was Firefox 1.5, codenamed Deerpark.

A few months before the release, an alpha was released, and immedietly I started playing with it, although it was barely usable, the new features and improvements that came with 1.5 were awesome. I felt the same kind of rush that you feel when you know you’re getting a present that you really want.

With the new release of Firefox 4, I feel exactly the same, after almost 5 years of not having that feeling. I’m waiting for a browser to be released in it’s final version.

Daily Use

I’ve stopped using Firefox as my main browser a while ago, at least 6 months now. I’m using using Firefox at work, where I need the powerful and very comfortable Firebug, but for browsing and web apps, I can’t work with anything but Chrome.

The main two features that keep me from using Firefox as my personal browser is speed, and the ability to detach tabs & create Application Shurtcuts.

Chromes Application Shortcuts combined with a few neat global keyboard hotkeys released me from most of the desktop apps

I have a setup that allow me to launch Gmail using Win Key+G, and it loads instantly, I don’t mean it loads in under 10 seconds, it’s ready the second the window decorations are ready and the window is fully opened (Win 7 has a small animation of a window fading in).

Although I still have lots of desktop application, most of my work on the computer is done using web apps, from project management to music, I got so used to Gmail that I can barely stand using Outlook while at work. Today I’m practically addicted to Chrome. I’ve tried other browsers, but Chrome usually gets me back after a very short time.

Chrome is blazing fast, and it’s always there, no matter how long the window was open, or what runs on it and almost never crashes. It has a few advantages, but those advantages should be picked up by browser vendors pretty quickly. Opera is pretty neat, and Webkit is nice also, but Firefox, with it’s huge repository of extensions and the almost never ending way of customization is lagging behind, and I don’t care what the hypesters will say.

Firefox is laggy & slow, a memory hog, Yes, I have extensions, and don’t tell me to uninstall a few, and it’s not the fault of Firefox, because it is, it should be able to manage the extensions it allows you to install instead of blaming poor performance on the extension. Firefox’s Extensions are it’s power, and that what made it famous, and made us all use it in the first place.

Hopes and Dreams

I really hope that Firefox 4 will be all that it’s promised to be, I have a lot more dreams I would like to implement natively in Firefox, but the two main features I’m waiting for are Real speed improvement, and the ability to drag tabs out of the window and creating a new window without killing the page or refreshing it and creating application shortcuts. Without those two I can’t really live at the moment.

But if you allow me to really dream for a moment, these features I really hope that will be implemented and will be actually working: Plugin memory management, Ability to customize bookmarks toolbar, a few improvements to the awesome-bar with better searching (again, related to bookmarks).

As it looks at the moment, Firefox is still in beta, and I’m not stating the obvious, because for Firefox 1.5, 2, and 3, beta versions were pretty stable releases, and were practically usable, but with the current beta version, it feels like the only thing was changed is the UI, and that sucks somehow, because I was expecting to see the fireworks, but nothing really works, or wasn’t implemented yet.

I really hope that Firefox 4 will be at least as good as Chrome, it really can, just make sure you don’t go into a stagnation due to your size, make bold steps, Firefox, please go back to Making the Web better.

Chris Coyier did a nice research explaining what are the most fast and efficient selectors in CSS,  and I’ll summarize his findings here.

• Right to Left — Browsers read you selectors from right-to-left, i.e. if you have a selector as such: ul > li a[title="home"] the browser will first look for an element a with the attribute title equal to home and only then check if it’s a descendant of an li tag.
• ID’s are the most efficient selectors, universal selectors are the least efficient.
• Tag qualifying (ul#navigation) is very inefficient, don’t use them.
• Descendant selectors (html body ul li a) are efficiency disaster as Chris puts it.

To read the rest of the article I suggest you visit css-tricks.com, worth the read.

/e.s

Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.

Created by Rober Penner

In 1994, in St. James Infirmary bar, with a 10 meter tall statute of wonder woman, Lou Montulli, one of the developers who founded Netscape, with some of the other engineers too a break at the bar, while there Lou joked about that the Lynx browser would not be able to display HTML with all its richness, and could only probably be able to show blinking text.

I won’t ruin Lou’s story, so keep on reading on his page…

Download: Here.