Firefox

During the Holiday Season I downloaded Firefox to my laptop; and it was perhaps the only gift I didn't have to pay for. A lot of people had mentioned it to me and its advantages over the iExplorer, and it seemed that I was the only one who wasn't using it. So I had to do it. And now that I've done it, I'm gona blog it.

The iExplorer has been good to me in the past, I do have to say it, and I don't have any complaints about it. Even though the word on the street is that MSoft is the "Evil Empire" and w'all should try to undermine it using open source software, the truth is that the iExplorer and I have had a long and stable relationship throughout the years. But I'm also aware that is hard to tell how good it has been to me because I've had only one choice, the iExplorer, so how can I compare different products and come up with a real and thoroughly answer? That's the main reason why I got the Firefox: to see if I've been living in a mirage, in a complete lie, perhaps in a world that resembles the Matrix and Firefox is the white rabbit [follow the white rabbit Neo. . .] that once installed and running I'll be able to witness a whole new world out there!

Well, I have it now and that Brave New World doesn't refresh as often as the iExplorer does. Complain número uno.

I've been using both browsers randomly for the last couple of weeks: I'll check a blog with one while reading the news with the other, or one day I'll use only one, etc; random shit at its best. And I've noticed that Firefox doesn't refresh pages as often [or as good?] as the iExplorer does. I checked some blogs one day, and when I came back a couple days later I saw that the posts I had read were gone, and some old ones were in place. So I did what a regular non-computer human being would do to see WTF was going on: hit the refresh button and voilá the missing posts were there! The same happened after posting a comment and going back to the page to see that there's zero comments [have to hit refresh again] and so on.

I thought for a moment that I'd done something wrong when installing it, but if to carefully follow all the steps in the installation wizard means that I fucked it up, then all this open source software bullshit is not for me after all: long life to the Evil Empire! But I came to the conclusion that it just doesn't reload that often. . . not big deal really.

I also had a complain número dos, but I've forgotten what it was. Maybe it wasn't a big deal. Oh, I remember, and it wasn't actually a complain, just a comentario. My geek friends told me that Firefox was faster than the iExplorer, and I'm sure they're right, but to my naked eye there's just no difference whatsoever when it comes to speed. Maybe the difference is almost a 100%, being Firefox twice as fast than its rival loading web pages, but a difference between 0.5 and 0.8 seconds is for me the same shit.

So I got it, I used it, and I blog it [veni, vidi, vinci]; and now is time to get under my blanket and my brand new bed sheets 'cause tomorrow is gona be un día muy largo para mí­.