My rectangle isn't empty; I don't use it to preview links, I use it to monitor the status of my plugins. It's the status bar, not the link preview bar.

You speak as if the purpose of the status bar is to show where links go. That's not what I use it for.

I need the status bar, because it tells me (a) which proxy I'm using, (b) which set of cookies I'm using (easier account switching), and (c) gives easy access to firebug and greasemonkey.

I don't really use it that often to see where a link is going; but the problem with Chrome's hover-only status bar is that it *truncates* the URL (snips a bit out of the middle) and you have to wait several seconds to see the whole thing. It's actively anti-expert-user.

Frankly, most of my addons already exist for Chrome, save perhaps a FoxyProxy equivalent.

The more it copies Chrome, the less reason there is to use it, and more motivation to switch to Chrome instead.

I don't even use tabs at the top; I use tree-style tabs. Hopefully they'll still work.

In other news, I do like the status bar being visible. The primary reasons I don't use Chrome are the missing menu and status bars.

No, you use Control + Mouse Wheel to change the size of icons in Windows.

You don't need piracy, not even the "piracy" of format conversion from inconvenient disc collections, to fill 1TB disks with ease. Just buy a couple of cameras: a DSLR shooting RAW and a HD camcorder, and you'll very quickly find out how little space 1TB is.

And oddly enough, it turns out that jaywalking is safer than crossing at intersections.

That is, proportionally more people are killed at controlled pedestrian crossings than those people who take responsibility for safe crossing themselves.

The US has a large advantage in that it is an affluent, monolingual and fairly culturally homogeneous single market. Capital costs of innovation can be amortized faster in the US than anywhere else.

Japan has about 127 million people. Has the US increased to 12.7 billion some time recently?

On error resume next didn't exist in MS Basic for microcomputers, of which the author of the article speaks. It wasn't anything goes in terms of variants either - variables had types, indicated by suffix (!, % or $).

It was more like programming in type-safe assembly language, but without an argument stack.

Why would you get a 920 and not overclock it? I run mine at 3.6GHz with ease, no voltage adjustments, no special cooling arrangements.

UKIP are isolationist reactionaries, better suited to the early 20th century. Imperial measures? Closer ties to the commonwealth? What do they think they have, an Empire? Lower inheritance taxes? Flat income taxes???

It reads like an imperial / aristocratic daydreamer wishlist.

Eh? You needed a controller to play them - mouse view was locked when inside a vehicle. I'd rate them around 3/10 for control playability compared to GTA4.

If you're talking about x64, the primary 64-bit consumer desktop / laptop CPU architecture, has it occurred to you that code running in the CPU's 32-bit mode also benefits from the doubled cache? It's not like the 32-bit code only uses half the cache, with 64-bit code using the full cache.