So the heading of this blog post is both to be good and bad, good in the sense that today marked the official arrival of Firefox 3, which I did my part and downloaded 3 times today since if I'm going to be a part of this world record I might as well participate and second because apparently the Comcast DVR was updated last night. Want to guess which one I'm excited about?
I'm not one to get excited about browser updates especially when they say there's not much cosmetic change to them but today's Firefox 3 update is pretty nice. Even on my quite old laptop at work I already have seen an increase in page loading when browsing (not that I browse at work) and the smart address bar (the Awesome Bar) is pretty cool and I'm sure it will get better over time. What the update did do for me is get me to install Firefox on my Vista laptop which was the one place I wasn't using it so I'm pretty much full time on the browser now. One thing that I didn't really notice too much at home but enough at work is the resources that Firefox 2 seemed to use which with the new release they say that is vastly improved. In any case I'm happy about this.
What I'm not happy about is the update to the Comcast Scientific Atlanta DVR, first off no new features here just the old lets take away a usable menu item. In this case the ability to set volume control to Fixed or Variable. WHAT? yep someone decided that that was no longer needed, the problem is that it is. You see tonight my wife kept saying to me I can't hear the TV, well thats because the DVR volume was way down! To make things even better Comcast apparently felt that if your in the on screen guide and you enter a channel number you no longer are just attempting to see whats on that channel while in the guide you want to leave the guide all together and go directly to said channel.
WHY GOD WHY must you make such silly, stupid changes to this already crappy DVR? How about adding some good guide data and the ability to record season passes without recording repeats or something else otherwise usable? Can't the interns just get people coffee like every other company, why must they experiment on the DVR box?
Not to mention Nintendo's update today which according to them will enhance my Wii experience, but to them that means combating the Homebrew crowd, I say let them be and please don't bother me to install a "security" update firmware. Here's an idea go develop something cool, then bother us to update our firmware.
Well at least Sony seemed to make a few interesting firmware announcements this week, but then again Sony likes to announce things, they don't like to actually release and implement things! Can't wait to get that Google search button on my PSP XMB, oh the things to look forward too!
So to recap, Comcast update BAD, Nintendo update BAD, Firefox update GOOD, and Sony update I give them a GOOD on the announcement and a Whatever on the pending release!
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