blazin's Journal: I have seen the gmail, and it is good

I've finally got my gmail account, thanks to neverkevin. So far, I've received three emails. Well, two considering the first one was from gmail about gmail and was there when I signed up.

Labels sound interesting as do conversation threads. So far I have not received enough email to really use either yet, but I'm suspecting they will rock.

Combining the gmail account with the fact that my yahoo accounts just went from 6MB to 100MB of space, and it's like these companies are trying to throw storage at me. And I am catching, that's for sure.

I've also started a switch from Mozilla to Firefox at work. I'll probably update my home machines sometime soon, although I am really wanting to backup everything I want to CD and blow them all away and start over with a fresh OS install. They are starting to behave less-than-ideally.

Anyway, Firefox seems to rock quite hard, and I am loving mouse gestures for doing stuff. I wish they were in other programs. There are a few things that I don't like so far that I liked in Mozilla better.

1) In firefox, the google search box is separate from the location bar. I don't know why this is, but after getting so used to typing in my google query in the location bar, hitting "down" and enter, and getting my search, I find I am trying to do that and then I end up having to copy the query into the little tiny google box and trying again. I don't know of any reason they need to be separate. Maybe someone knows how to make this behavior how I am used to it?

2) Open typed url in new tabs. In mozilla I would hit ctrl-enter after I typed in a url or a google search and the results would open up in a new tab. In Firefox it seems I cannot do this and I have to first open a new tab manually, then type the url in the new location bar. Anyone know how to make it work like mozilla?

So that's the Firefox stuff. I am going to start writing more stuff in here (I have probably said this before). I don't know if anyone reads this stuff or cares, but I'm thinking I will try to start writing about the games I am playing, or have recently played. This would include Xbox and PC, both old and new games. Since I got xbox live recently, I've been spending a little more time playing games than watching TV. Maybe I'll throw some TV reviews in there too, who knows.

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Re:That bugged me about firefox, too

[blazin]

Thank you for putting me on your gmail invite queue. I really appreciate that.

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[blazin]

Well I do appreciate it anyway. Seeing as I am mainly a lurker in the whole FK circle thing and nobody in there really knows me, I wouldn't expect to be considered on anyone's list. So thanks.

Re:That bugged me about firefox, too

[KshGoddess]

You've been more vocal nowadays.

I'm mostly a lurker, too -- and of course, I rant, but that's in my own JE'. ;)

I do read all of my 'friends'' je's, but most of the time, I don't comment, because I don't know what to add to the conversation. For all my words sometimes I just draw a blank.

Or it's already been said 12h earlier. (sigh)

Re:That bugged me about firefox, too

[blazin]

Most of my vocality (is that a word?) seems to be replying to you :)

I don't comment that much either since I also do not know what, if anything, to add to the conversation. So I figure if I can come up with something I like then I'll be able to write my own JEs about it and if people want to comment on that, they can. Or they can ignore me. Doesn't really make a difference to me. People replying are the only way I know if anyone is actually reading the stuff I write anyway.