Apreche's Journal: Morning Routine

On Monday strongbad answered an e-mail about his morning routine. Aplplarently it involves lots of eggs. My morning routine, like most of yours I wager, involves many webbs ites.

I have Mozilla + IE. I use Mozilla for browsing since it blocks the pop-ups, but my daily routine doesn't involve any of those since I just read a bunch of news and webcomics. So I use IE, which is a little faster and I go through the favorites 1 by 1.

Today I discovered something amazing. I knew about tabbed browsing before, but I didn't realize you could bookmark a set of tabs. So I opened every site I visit on a daily basis in a tab and bookmarked the whole set. As a result the time it takes me to check all of those sites is significantly reduced! Of course, this is after 1 day. It might take longer other days when there is more stuff to read.

I'm thinking about using pheonix because I've heard you can now set a set of tabs as the home page. And I've heard that it is lighter and faster than mozilla. But what features does Moz have that are missing from phoenix? There must be something missing that makes it faster and smaller.

There is one issue that arises from this. Because of being able to bookmark a set of tabs this leaves me with more time in the morning before class. I can use this time to sleep more, but it will only be on the order of 15 minutes to a half-hour. Today I only saved enough time in order to write this journal entry. I'm not sure how to spend this extra time! I could write journal entries every day, I could sleep, I could read more webcomics, I don't know! Until I'm sure exactly how much time I'm saving I don't think sleep is a good idea. Being late != good. And I doubt I can write something moderately interesting every single morning, when nothing new has happened yet. Which leaves me with webcomics.

I started reading exactly 1 new webcomic yesterday bringing me up to 7 (not counting BBoCS, which is a long story). The comic is called men in hats, I think you can guess the URL. It's pretty funny. It's the kind of webcomic I like, no plot, just a single joke per strip, original, and consistently humourous. This is why penny arcade is the king of webcomics. It makes me laugh 3 times a week, every week. If anyone happens to know comics that fit this bill speak up. The more often they update the better. I have yet to find a comic that updates 7 days a week, but I also have yet to try very hard. Actually I think bob and george does, I'm not sure.

Only seven?

[Lumpish Scholar]

I have a script that loads each of the forty (!) of the web comics I read every morning. It loads one, waits fifteen seconds, loads the next, etc. It's often just enough time to read them (and I have tricks when I need more time); it's certainly enough time to make the browser aware of each URL, so I can start it, shower, and then read them all by starting at the last and hitting the BACK button.

A bookmarked page of tabbed pages sounds cool, though!

Phoenix vs Mozilla

[rickymoz]

Phoenix is not only lightweight, it also has a lot of cool themes [mozdev.org] Mozilla doesn't have. If your looking just for a browser, then your choice is Phoenix.

Mozilla, on the other hand, is much more than a browser. I use it as e-mail, it recognizes my junk e-mail with a smart bayesian filter [mozilla.org], it's a developpment tool, the DOM-Inspector [mozilla.org] just plain rocks, the JavaScript debugger Venkman [mozilla.org] is a dream that has become true, and a lot more.

Anyways, it's great to have a choice, don't you think? so make yours! Anyways, IE hasn't anything to offer to me than Mozilla or Phoenix. It's rather the opposite. There are 101 things Mozilla can but IE can't [xulplanet.com]. Except viruses and security holes, but I can live without them. :-)

Re:Phoenix vs Mozilla

[Apreche]

Thanks dude. I just downloaded Pheonix and started using it now. If Mozilla is the bigger non-lite version why does it not have the open in tabs function in the bookmark menu? It's the best! And thanks for pointing out the themese, the default one sucks. And the google box in the top left is equally awesome.

In with the firey bird out with the dinosaur.

Now to find more webcomics.

Re:Phoenix vs Mozilla

[rickymoz]

You're welcome! About the "Open in tabs" bookmark menu: Mozilla has 2 different bookmarks: normal bookmarks and "Groupmarks", which store a group of bookmarks to be opened in several tabs. So the functionality is basically the same. The Phoenix developpers however decided not to make an either/or choice and now let any bookmark to be at the same time a boomark and a "groupmark". However you have to click twice (open the bookmark folder, click on "open in tabs"), versus one single click (just click the groupmark) in Mozilla.

Since you appreciate the search box with google, I didn't want to miss the little advertisment for this other project: Mycroft [mozdev.org] is providing an impressive number of other search plugins (google groups, freshmeat etc...) which you can add with just one click.