Hugh's Worthless Blog

I was pretty excited that Firefox 4 was released yesterday since I had been testing it out quite a bit during pre-release, and I have found that it runs the Zynga games on Facebook (Farmville, Frontierville, Cityville) much faster than Chrome 10 had on the 2.8GHz Pentium 4 Dell desktop I was using. That alone should make it worth switching! But since it was released I decided to see how many hits we had received using Firefox 4 on our university's very popular meteorites website ( meteorites.wustl.edu ), so I thought I would get some general statistics on browser usage there. I broke the statistics down by the browsers and their versions since I was curious on the version breakdown, especially of the just released (Chrome 10, Firefox 4) and beta versions (IE 9) of browsers. Chrome 8 0.19% Chrome 9 4.29% Chrome 10 2.68% 7.16%    Firefox 2.X 0.19% Firefox 3.0 0.59% Firefox 3.5 ...

I haven't written up a more techie relating posting in a while so I thought I would speak what has been on my mind lately. I was reading in eWeek and online about how Oracle has been stalling further development of OpenOffice.org and how Linux distributions like Ubuntu are therefore switching to the fully open LibreOffice variation of the free office suite (Ubuntu 11.04, the "Natty Narwal", will ship with LibreOffice 3.3.1). Therefore I decided to uninstall OpenOffice.org from my Ubuntu desktop and switch over to LibreOffice since it was a pretty easy procedure to do using apt-get. I have used both Writer and Calc and it pretty much feels the same to me as OpenOffice.org. They have posted the latest fixes and features in version 3.3.1 which sound nice but I have never really needed to use them. It is more about future enhancements and support by an open source community as opposed to the current differences between the two projects. If Red Hat, Canonical and Novell...