I thought I oughta say something about the 100th getluky post! I’m glad that this is turning into a repository for my notes, and it’s always interesting when people tell me they like the things I link to. Hello Getluky readers!

Anyway, I just installed Firefox PR1.0, and so far it seems like it takes a little use to notice the major changes. Some are extremely smart:

• Changing the background color of the URL bar, and displaying a lock icon in the URL bar when it’s a secure site. Excellent idea, and I know it will be implemented by other browsers soon.
• Context-highlighting when doing Ctrl-F Find. Background color of find toolbar changes to red when your keyword is no longer recognized.

Others, i’m not sure if I like yet: * Find toolbar on the bottom. This was disorienting at first, but I guess the flashing yellow helped identify that this was a new feature. * RSS Subscriptions built-in: how is this supposed to work? I’m adding subscriptions to my bookmarks??? I read up on the pages, then they don’t disappear from my bookmarks? Maybe my confusion is only because of the format change, but i’ll reserve final judgement til later. * Email checking/new mail integration in the Tools menu.

Then others, I dislike: * Plugins need to be adapted to 1.0. There’s no warning of this when installing, you just kind of need to find out when you install, and your plugins are all deactivated. I need to update my code ref plugin, and i’ll post more info about this when I get it working. * When you click on Get Extensions, it doesn’t filter to only extensions that are 1.0-compatible. Clicking on the BugMeNot link just fails to install, although to be fair, it does mention why.