I’ve been testing Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 today. To make sure it wouldn’t overwrite my existing installation of Firefox 2, I installed the portable edition which can be downloaded from here.

Firefox 3 is all that you have probably read already. It is much faster than 2.0. It has some nice new features which make it a more usable browser and it has some nice security features which should make your browsing experience safer.

The features I like the best on the new Firefox are the redesign memory management and the faster execution of JavaScript. By their nature, Web 2.0 websites relied heavily on JavaScript. So these website perform incredibly better in Firefox 3. As many of you know, I created PhotoPoints. I’m in the process of slowly recoding PhotoPoints and make it a Web 2.0 site. So I was looking forward to Firefox 3 and see how the new site will perform. It makes a huge difference.

Today I downloaded a SharePoint virtual machine from Microsoft. When I tried to import it to VMWare I got an error that said “source format was not understood”. I google the error and didn’t come with a solution to my problem. So I did the next logical thing, I open the VMC file for the Virtual Server and poked around. I found that the <absolute> attribute didn’t have any value. I changed that value to the physical location of the machine. In my case it was F:\Virtual Machines\MOSS Demo\WIN03_MOSS.vhd

When I started the import from VMWare, it worked.

The Ubuntu team has announced the release of Unbuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”. It will be release Thursday, October 18^th 2007.

The desktop highlights are:

Compiz Fusion: 3-D Desktop manager.

Printer Installation: In GNOME, printers are automatically configured for use as soon as they are connected.

Free flash support with Gnash.

Automated Firefox plug in installation.

I have an old Dell laptop in which I have tried many times to install Ubuntu. It always works fine until it comes to the point to have wireless connectivity, which has been sketchy at best. I know that most manufacturers don’t support Linux natively, but I feel that this is a huge show stopper for the adaptation of Linux.