we got all night

Has anyone tried any of these new browsers coming out? Opera's been around for a while, I know. And I love Opera on my phone, but the Opera 11 desktop version is not pulling me in. It seems to take forever to load. Chrome is okay, if your system handles it--my nephew uses it on his computer and it's pretty cool. But I haven't found replacements for all my Firefox add-ons yet so I can't switch over. Rockmelt looked amazing but immediately asks for my Facebook account and I just want to browse on it before I start adding permissions to all my social sites. When you click cancel to the FB question it quits the app. What.

Firefox 4 promises, like always, to be faster than the previous version. And while I like the Chrome rip-off GUI, it took away the status bar and bookmarks bar. The status part of the status bar pops up when you're looking at a link, which is cool, but most of my add-ons resided on the status bar. There's an add-ons bar that you can use, but it's basically a status bar that your add-ons go on. So why take out the status bar if I need to add something that looks exactly like it just to use my add-ons? The bookmarks bar became a button, which is cool because it adds that much more space to the browser window but it's awkward when I go to drag a link to the bookmark bar and it isn't there. Also--and this is weird to change 4 versions in--but the contextual menu switched "open in new tab" and "open in new window" and I'm used to going to the second menu line to select "open in new tab" so I ended up having a bunch of Tumblr windows open by accident. Most of the time I use command+click, but it doesn't always work everywhere, like on Tumblr. Also, it's almost slower in processing what I asked it to do. And the actual loading of pages seems the same.

P.S. On my older computer I'm using Camino, but I keep Firefox open because I need my add-ons. :(

The Guardian was good. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, Kutcher has garnered my respect and Dulé has no actual lines. :-( OMG but when they're all uh, warming up, from the ice pool in the shower? All I kept thinking was, "Good news Gus shower for ten!"

I rented The Sims 2 Pets for PS2 to assuage my desire for the EP. It didn't help much. Didn't help as in I can't stand any PS2 game post-Bustin Out. I haven't touched Urbz more than once and The Sims 2 and The Sims 2 Pets are not must-have. My nephew spent the rest of the weekend playing the game while I played my own game on the computer.

SNL this week garnered about two and a half "...the bear said "ROWRR!"s. Which is how I decide how many skits needed to be worked on a bit more or needed to be replaced. It's a Studio 60 reference for those who don't get it. And oh my god how I love MCR and their Queen-ripoff CD. I love you Gerard, even if your new haircut is all kinds of unsexy on you.

I finished last week's Desperate Housewives and already this week's is on! Oy.

Oh and I tried using Firefox for the first time. I imported all my preferences and bookmarks in, found a Safari-like theme and set it all up.... It's still slower than Safari and reminds me of Windows 95 with the button style. Also it won't let me see icon posts or sim stories correctly and doesn't load up all the images in certain sites. I really want it to work but it's not working with me. It's funny because I always hated Safari until I thought about the fact that IE is no longer updated for Mac OS X and decided to change.

Who knows what the future brings? (Geesh, who's been listening to Geri Halliwell all day?)

Lia

P.S. I need to update my icons and officially post all the ones I've done lately.