All Narfed Up photography and words by Bryan Villarin

Memory issues seem to have been drastically reduced in Firefox 3 Beta 3. If you’d like to try it out, the Portable Edition kicks! An added bonus is that it won’t touch your current Firefox setup. (see PortableApps.com)

I’m annoyed with all those Facebook applications. I barely have any in my profile because I’ve been ignoring all requests by hand. Not anymore.

Option 1: Ignore All Facebook Requests bookmarklet (Internet Explorer/Firefox)

Option 2: Block ALL Facebook Application (Greasemonkey Script for Firefox)

It’s still a toss up for me. I’m trying to figure out if I should keep my Facebook account. (Well, if it can truly be deleted is another issue.) For now, I will.

If you already have a default folder setup, the dialog always defaults to “Save As”, this’ll save time:

Alt + Left-click

Before? Right-click download link > Save Link As > Save

(via Lifehacker commenter)

Ever since updating to Spybot S&D 1.5 and immunizing my system, pages take a few seconds longer to load. I didn’t realize that it was due to Spybot S&D for at least a week. Brutal, huh?

Solution: Undo Spybot S&D immunization for Firefox. (Here’s the explanation that was too much for me to read.)

For now, SpywareBlaster will have to hold the fort down. I don’t browse questionable sites, so it’s not really a problem anyway.

The less data (files) I have to worry about my computers, the better. Amazon S3 + JungleDisk work nightly, backing up the more crucial folders. Almost weekly, I synchronize everything to an external hard drive.

Bookmarks are a different story.

When it comes to saving awesome sites/pages on the internets, I use the following:

• del.icio.us
• Google Browser Sync
• AM-DeadLink

With del.icio.us, I currently have 568 items bookmarked, some of which aren’t being shared because I want to read them at a future date. (That’s a separate post, though.) However, the majority of them are reference items.

I use three different computers: home desktop, laptop, and work computer. To keep Firefox bookmarks synchronized between all of them, I’ve been using Google Browser Sync.

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.

If you don’t like being tied to Google, Foxmarks simply does bookmarks.

For those of you who keep a lot of bookmarks in Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Opera, do you know which ones still work?

AM-DeadLink takes the guessing out of that. Plus, it’s freeware - how cool is that?

So, why do you save all your bookmarks on your hard drive? Keep the ones you use most frequently in your toolbar, then save the rest to the web.

I tried ScribeFire because I saw it at the bottom of a few posts in Rev. Jon Swanson’s blog, Levite Chronicles. I’m dropping it because it doesn’t seem to code in XHTML. That’s all.

Dave Seah linked to a SXSW panel (via Twitter), discussing “How to make your lame podcast listenable“. Problem? It goes directly to an MP3 file, so you can only listen to it within the browser and QuickTime. Not quite.

Solution: [Firefox] Go to File > Save Page As. Save that file wherever you’d like, and you’re done! For me, IE 6 doesn’t seem to allow saving that MP3 file from the browser window.

Note: I wasn’t sure how to title this. Sorry!

Update: I didn’t know of the SXSW podcasts page, which link to the MP3 above, as well as a bunch of others. I think I’ll be downloading a bunch of these tonight for later listening.

Michael (Binary Bonsai) found Firefox 2.0 Final. Score. A day early.

Update: Apparently I wasn’t right in doing this. Okay, I guess for future reference, only get Firefox from GetFirefox.com. Oh well, whatever.

On a side note, writing this in FF 2.0 and Wordpress 2.0.4, I can’t use quicktags with keyboard shortcuts. (Alt+A: create link from selected text, Alt+B: make the selected text bold, etc.) I’ll make sure I download the real final version of Firefox tomorrow.

Update 2: It is really out now. [via Paul Stamatiou] Also, see the “Recommended Add-ons” page.

Last week, I clean installed Windows XP for someone’s home computer. It wasn’t a top-of-the-line computer, but it wasn’t old either. I made sure it was updated, then installed Firefox, OpenOffice, AVG Anti-virus Free, and SpywareBlaster.

She came in today asking for the website address for Firefox, because she was extremely pleased with how much faster Firefox felt compared to Internet Explorer. She even told a friend about it!

I’m pretty sure part of it had to do with the fact that the system was fresh, but I felt I had to share this - Firefox just isn’t mainstream.

The only purpose bookmarks have for me in Firefox is for frequent sites I regularly visit. I usually keep these in the bookmarks toolbar, below the address bar. I also have some keywords assigned so I don’t have to type the whole URL or click on the bookmark itself.

A few days ago, I figured I should just get a del.icio.us account and store my bookmarks there. If I didn’t feel like typing a full blog post about some new program or cool article, I could just tag it on del.icio.us.

Wow, what a relief! The del.icio.us extension works perfectly, so it’s easy to add new pages. Wicked!

I’m not sure if I’ll put a list of the latest links on the side, especially since I’m still weeding through my bookmarks and choosing which ones should be archived. (I did add a widget at Bryan Off Topic, though.)

Just visit my AllNarfedUp del.icio.us page and subscribe there! Some of the links might be old, but I’ll mix in some new ones, too. Bear with me while I convert to this new system. Enjoy!