Aethec

I think the Statiform add-on for FF4 is excellent - it's an add-on that works like a theme. Windows only, however. Stratiform 3.0

Unless you use Java based apps, don't install Java - period. JavaScript was named JavaScript because Java was very popular at the time (actually, the "true" name of the language is ECMAScript - JavaScript is Mozilla's name for it, JScript is Microsoft's...) Flash is used very widely on the internet (Youtube, for example), it is a necessary evil (and modern browsers, a.k.a IE and Chrome, sandbox it). To give you an idea of how badly Java is written...Java 1.6 has received 23 updates each fixing tens of vulnerabilities, e.g. the 22th fixed 28 remotely exploitable vulnerabilities (in layman's terms : you don't need to do anything at all to be infected). In comparison, Microsoft's .NET Framework, in its two latest versions (3.x and 4) had only 10 vulnerabilities. Some time ago, Java was very popular on "applets" on the web (small programs embedded in a webpage), but hardly anyone uses them now. And the language in itself is pretty weak when compared to C# anyway.

Yeah! Then maybe we'll see a Piriform OS! Followed by Piriform smartphones. Seriously...maintaining an antivirus requires much, much, much, much more work than maintaining utilities like Defraggler or CCleaner.

Don't use a Registry cleaner unless you have serious problems - period.

Yet another reason not to use Java... [troll] and it's a terrible language anyway [/troll]

cacls should not be used on Win7. Its replacement is icacls (as the help text from cacls says), which is a bit more complicated but more powerful. But as Alan said, don't use it. Seriously. There's a high probability of messing everything up. Integrity levels were introduced in Vista/7 - they exists on all objects (files, processes, registry keys, folders, ...). The concept is quite simple : a process can only acces objects which are of the same integrity level or lower. A file's integrity level can be low, medium, or high. IE uses integrity levels to prevent potentially hijacked tabs from harming the system, IIRC.

On my system, dragging a tab in FF 3.6 restarts the video

If you are using Vista or 7, they might be using file integrity levels. Those can be set using icacls and its /setintegritylevel parameter. The only account in Vista and 7 which has all permissions on everything is TrustedInstaller - it's used by Windows Update.

WU doesn't show IE9 yet - it's planned for March 21.

Try dragging a YouTube tab with a video currently playing in Firefox...

Yeah, but adblocking lists need to be updated regularly. The x86 useragent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1;Trident/5.0) The x86 on x64 one is the same, with "WOW64;" after the NT version number. No other things are added (yes, .NET Framework, I'm looking at you).

I'm trying to use it as a default browser now, but ad blocking is not easy (TPLs block too much, Simple AdBlock is paid now, other ad blockers are waaay to old...). And fonts are still blurry

NoScript is waaaay to annoying when going to unknown websites IMHO. I tried it, but after two or three "can I use your computer for a while? ...wait, why isn't this website working? what's that yellow bar at the bottom?" I stopped using it.

Thanks (again!)

I'm getting a 403 Forbidden again...(and half the proxies don't work here...) My IP is 188.155.65.177. I'm not a spambot, I swear

I think the Stack Exchange network 404 pages are worth mentioning: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/$ http://stackoverflow.com/$ (this one's geek-y) http://superuser.com/$ http://serverfault.com/$

The Belgium one is epic

What's the theme name?

Yes, but the Android marketplace is a mess. Anyone can add anything.

I think the best would be an "official" Marketplace with approved apps, *and* sideloading any app on the device at your own risk.

Wait, wait, wait...."Screaming Sexy Japanese Girls". There are people who actually download that kind of thing on their phone? On a more serious note, that's what happen when there is no quality control on apps...Apple and MS might have closed platforms, but at least their markets should be safe.

That's FF 3.6.14, not 4 There's still a RC (or more?) scheduled before FF4 goes public.

I prefer a GUI than a 1-second quicker boot

What a sad thing to hear I wish you well....I really don't know what to say here.

What they need is some basic spam filter...