Paul O'Flaherty

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everybody! I hope that 2006 will be an excellent year for everybody!

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WordPress 2.0 released!

WordPress 2.0 has been officially released. Time to update all my blogs!

Click here to go to the WordPress 2.0 download page.

WordPress 2.0 RC3

WordPress 2.0 RC3 has been released. This should be the final release candidate before the full release of 2.0.

Firefox 1.5 just not stable

I know it’s been a while since I posted anything here, work and a new company have kept me away form many of the things that I consider a normal part of my life, such as blogging, developing my projects, shooting pool and partying. I was talking with Alex Morganis yesterday and I mentioned that I wouldn’t be back to full time blogging until the beginning of January, however, recent events have prompted me to write this one mini-rant.

Why, oh why, is version 1.5 of Firefox considered to be a stable release? It’s quite simply not, and as a long time user, it pains me to say that this is perhaps the most unstable release I’ve yet tried on my system. In the space of 6 hours working today I’ve had about 15 crashes or hangs with Firefox 1.5. I could accept that level crashes in an early beta of a product, but 1.5 is supposed to be a mature stable release. to be honest, I’ve had better performance with beta versions of 1.5 than I’m currently having.

I always try to ensure that I’ve made sure whether the fault lies with my system before blaming an application for crashing, but a it appears that I’m not alone in my criticism of this release.

I won’t be moving back to IE anytime soon, but I would like to see a patch for 1.5 soon, as these stability issues have to be addressed. Unfortunately I haven’t seen or heard any mention of one on the horizon, although the Firefox developers are usually quite fast at sorting things out.