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Information week has posted the comments/ problems grouped from FF 1.5 users. For me I see memory usage as a big issue.

• Firefox’s use of physical and virtual memory is exceptionally high.
• CPU usage spikes to 100 percent (usually while loading a Web page).
• The browser freezes up for seconds, minutes, or permanently.
• The browser won’t launch until they remove an errant “firefox.exe” process in Task Manager.
• The browser crashes suddenly (usually while loading a Web page).
• The browser has trouble loading specific pages, but there’s no commonality among users as to which pages won’t load.
• The initial launch of Firefox loads slower.
• Third-party application hyperlinks (such as a link in an
  e-mail message) take a long time to open a new Firefox tab or to launch
  the browser.

  Read more at Informationweek

Google released  Year End Zeitgeist in three categories. Google search, Google News and Froogle. Read more: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2005.html

A study by technology company AdTech says that the popularity of the
open-source browser has grown by 40 percent over the last six months.
This is cool because they study usage, and not just what people are
using. Read more http://www.abcmoney.co.uk/news/1920051566.htm

Father of the web is blogging. There are 384 comments for a single post.:-)

It has two parts, first part is Google has released something which is good
from evil called phishing or spoofing. The other part is Google is taking all
the private/ personal data from us via this extension.

Check the extension here.

Check the evil how Google is doing that.

Now you decide if you want to have it or not for your Firefox.

Yes,
that is true, if your mobile supports internet/web, you can check your emails
in text format. Another interesting feature could be is “Call to
reply” which enables users to call the emailed contact if his phone number
is already in contacts list. Check here.

Vaction responder is enabled in GMail, so here is how you can set it. It is cool feature to have Right?. If they can start sending emails to my mobile that is fine for me. (though it is old and already exists in other providers)

Two new things before I wrap up for today

Google
has released its Homepage API where you can design Google homepage for
yourself. Here is the link for, where you can learn more about this.

Microsoft
and MTV networks team up for digital music service which is due in 2006. This
service is called Urge which will be integrated into the new version of
MS Windows media player. Here is the full story

Microsoft
BhashaIndia sponsors “Indic Blogger Awards”. This will constitute 11 Indian
languages and more details yet to come. Get more info from here.

Last
week Bill has visited India had praise to the
Indian developers and their quality. He announced a context which begins Jan
and lasts for eight months to bring out the talent in the developers. The final
winner will join to work with Gates. Let’s see and wait for next eight months
to see who could be that. More form News.com