Quick Access to Yahoo Finance or Google Finance via Firefox’s Search Bar

Speaking of Yahoo and Google’s finance pages (in the previous post), I’ve been meaning to post about a quick way to search either site. Firefox’s search bar has long been one of my most used features. I added a few search engines to the default list back in the day but I hadn’t kept up [...]

Yeah Bloomberg.com Does Suck, but So Does Internet Explorer

Barry at The Big Picture has had it with Bloomberg.com: That’s it — I quit. Throwin’ in the towel, given’ up, jest not worth it. I am talking about the Bloomberg’s website. (I wont even link to it, I am so sick of it sucking so badly). Between the incessant pop-ups, the taking over Explorer, [...]

Tips on Reading Weblogs and More Efficient Web Surfing

No, I’m not flashing back to the days of R.I.F. and SchoolHouse Rock. As a follow up of sorts to yesterday’s tips for bloggers, I thought I’d offer some tips for weblog readers. Actually, much, if not all, of what I’m about to say will apply to anybody that does a lot of web surfing.

Try Mozilla FireFox 0.9

I’m now begging all of you Internet Explorer users to try Mozilla FireFox, a far superior browser.

Browser Wars

I was just about to post a little something about the Mozilla FireBird/IE browser battle, when I noticed this: Microsoft to Quit Web Browsers for Mac. All I can say is “wow”. First Microsoft decides not to provide anymore upgrades to IE without a whole OS upgrade, and now this. Sup with that? Seems to [...]