January 17, 2010
Mike Kroger,
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Vera Zubor - an editor
Of course Vera Zubor doesn’t know her (I assume it’s female) arse from her elbow!
The Nuclear Physics Department of the University of Stellenbosch has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert; however, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 - 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each re-organization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.
This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass.
When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
I guess it’s like global warming. Someone is bound to benefit if enough paranoia is stirred up.
For over five years I’ve been using Firefox and writing Firefox add-ons. Due to the fact that I’ve been involved with writing add-ons (Something that I have just recently rid myself of), I’ve often been forced to upgrade to beta releases to get various add-ons ready for the production release. It’s never an ideal situation to be using a beta version (Apart from for testing purposes) of any software, but in the past beta versions of Firefox have been relatively stable… Till 3.6b1!
Since the introduction of Places in Firefox 3.0, things seem to be getting worse and worse. I suspect that many of the problems are being caused by SQLite being incapable of dealing (Quickly) with the demands that Firefox is placing on it. I was hoping that 3.6 would see many of these problems being addressed, but the old problems seem firmly entrenched, with additional problems being added to the old ones.
The 1st thing I noticed with 3.6b1 was that the Facebook fan box widget wasn’t working. This is no big deal, and on its own, didn’t bother me. I also noticed that, for some weird reason, tooltip text from underlying tabs would often be displayed on the uppermost tab. Also nothing serious, apart from being a bit confusing. Little problems which I assumed would be addressed in future beta releases.
A few days ago I upgraded to 3.6b5. Lo and behold, the problems are still there - Along with many others that I have since discovered.
While using 3.6b2 or 3.6b3 I noticed that Firefox’s autofill functionality would stop working after using the browser for a few hours. Simply restarting Firefox would fix the broken autofill functionality - Kinda reminds me of a certain operating system! But most worrying of all was when I discovered, when using 3.6b4, that using an add-on that opened a dialog would cause Firefox to abend… Hmmmmmm. Nothing special in the dialog; just a simple bit of XUL with a single password textbox, and it causes Firefox to abend? I was hoping to see 3.6b5 address these funnies, but no luck 
So what does the future hold for Firefox? Apart from the bugs, another very worrying situation is security. Firefox has always sold itself as being more secure than Internet Explorer, but is it? If the truth be told, I’m sure that Firefox is currently just as insecure as Internet Explorer ever was. Just as ActiveX components were the big security hole in Internet Explorer, so too have add-ons become the big security hole in Firefox. The really worrying thing about the security holes opened by Firefox add-ons is that even those who consider themselves to be security experts (Making recommendations to other add-on authors on how to secure their add-ons), don’t seem to realize that their recommendations are not foolproof.
I’ve been using Firefox 3.6b1 for a few days. I was forced to upgrade so that I could get my add-ons ready for Firefox 3.6, which is due to be released later this month (November). Of course, knowing the Mozilla crowd the way I do, we are probably more likely to see the production release of 3.6 sometime next year, but I digress.
While I’ve been using 3.6b1 I noticed that various Facebook fan box widgets, that I have scattered around on various pages, weren’t being displayed. No big deal! Probably a Facebook bug… Right? Wrong!
Today I decided to use IE8 to take a peep at the offending pages. Hmmmmm… Fan box widgets are displayed in IE8, so what now? Must be something wrong with the fan box JavaScript in the various pages… Right?
OK! Let’s grab the JavaScript from the Facebook fan box page again (Just in case something has changed) and re-paste it into the offending pages… Ooooops!
So… Ermmmm… Where is the fan box preview?
I sense a growing dissatisfaction with Firefox. I’ve Googled around to get a feel of what people are saying, and the general feeling seems to be, since Firefox 3.0, more and more people are voicing dissatisfaction. I’ve always said that the Mozilla crowd remind me of a bunch of little boys building a tree-house. Strangely enough, 3.0 saw the introduction of Places. Hmmmmm… I wonder if there is a connection?
