Ah, first loves. Remember Cyberdog, Apple’s modular OpenDoc web-swiss army knife? It was great - you could activate modules like chat and mail for more functionality or leave things be and run sleek and fast.
Well, Cyberdog my be long gone, but the idea lives on. Where? Firefox. The Mozilla browser is lean and fast - but also supports add-on functionality through extensions.
Now from within my browser I can monitor my Gmail account, watch for updates from my Bloglines feeds, read and edit my iCal calendars and spell check and save my blog entries. I don’t have to leave my browser and I don’t have to give up valuable processor time to features I don’t want. Brilliant!
It is nice to see innovation return to the browser. It’s like a faint bark from the past: music to my ears.
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