Dual Browsers, Duel Browsers: Opera

(tags browser, Firefox, Opera, failure, resolved)

I totally depend on Firefox now. I haven't used Sleipnir in a long time, thanks to Tree Style Tab. However FF 2.x becomes pretty slow when I bog it down with 20+ extensions and 50+ tabs. I wanted another FF to run on my second screen (dual monitor).

I couldn't figure it out, so I tried out Opera. I like how its fast and "g search" works in the address bar just like FF. But it lacks the convenience of FF and plus Alt-Enter in the address bar doesn't work the way I want. It is stable and consistent though.

I saw FF 3.x beta was getting more beta releases out. There was number 4 and now number 5, just a day or two ago. I try them out using the Portable Apps version. I want to run FF 2.x and 3.x beta simultaneously but that was the original problem. I got smart with "Run Multiple Firefoxes? (solved)".

It won't be long now before I give Opera the boot and the uninstall. I hardly knew yeh.

It's still compiling: Gentoo "Ichigo" on VMWare

(tags Linux, Gentoo, VMWare, bug, resolved)

I'm slowly getting rid of stuff on my Project Asobi (1999) computer. One thing I'm trying to do is move a half-hearted VM built in Colinux running on Asobi into a more standard VM environment like VMWare Server. Both of them are Gentoo, and since Asobi itself is a Pentium III 500 MHz class computer, its slow going.

And I started an emerge command of 80 packages this morning, but its still not done even after about 12 hours now. None of them use X or KDE or whatever.

I tried to get DistCC going with my regular desktop but for some reason it doesn't hand off the batch jobs. I gotta figure this out for my sanity.

I did report a bug for one of the packages I like to use: "app-editors/qemacs-0.3.2_pre20070226 w/ USE=-X: install fails on copying "csstoqe"" They fixed it pretty quickly, which was nice.