Posted on April 17, 2008

Favorite Firefox 3 Extensions

One of my favorite Firefox extension writers is Josep del Rio.  He writes two of the best Firefox extensions and incidentially they are available for the nightly builds of Firefox 3.  Two of his popular extensions are Firefox Showcase and Speed Dial.

Showcase is the Firefox version of the IE Quick Tabs feature.  It allows you to view and manage all of your tabs in an easy to use interface.

Speed Dial is way to easily access all of your most visited web sites.  This is comparable to the similar feature in the Opera Web Browser.

The addition of these extensions to Firefox 3 have made my web browsing experience better and gives me more and more incentive to never use IE unless absolutely necessary.  I hope you find them useful as well.

To find more extensions that are of a higher caliber than most, check out the recommended add-ons here.

New Phenom X4 CPUs Debut

The final stepping revision (B3) of the Phenom X4 processors have been released on NewEgg.  The new processors from AMD have a xx50 model numbering scheme meaning that the dreaded TLB bug in the original Phenom CPUs is now entirely fixed.  If you have been waiting to upgrade to Phenom, now is the time.  The prices are right and the performance is perfect.  Although these processors are arguably not as fast as their comparable Intel Core 2 rivals, if you have an AMD motherboard or you are just a fan of AMD, this is your best bet for high performance computing power.  I am going to buy one right away!!

Phenom 9550 2.2Ghz

Phenom 9750 2.4 Ghz

Phenom 9850 Black Edition 2.5 Ghz

*Also a quick note, you MUST have an AM2/AM2+ socket AMD motherboard WITH a very recent BIOS upgrade from your motherboard manufacturer that officially supports Phenom CPUs.  If you do not have this BIOS upgrade for your particular motherboard, you could see strange, poor, or no performance from the chip.  Be sure to look into it on the website of your motherboard.

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