Great, so IE7 finally launched and it doesn’t work with work’s Exchange 2003 OWA setup. I try to send email and it crashes. Let me just restate that:

If you try to use Microsoft’s flagship browser with the current version of their web-based email application, the program will crash.

I know two people who have tried this — me and another guy. Both of us saw the exact same issue. Is it just me or are these people on the ropes? I mean, damn…the new browser doesn’t work with OWA? How can you miss that? Is that considered minor by any stretch of the imagination?

So I’m left using Firefox (a free program) with OWA because if I use Microsoft’s own brand-new browser (with a vulnerability released on the same day it launched) it doesn’t work.

In. Sane. The best programmers in the world and billions of dollars, and I have to use a free product to get mail from OWA. The fall of Microsoft is upon us.

So far in the year 2006 Firefox has utterly dominated Internet Explorer for browser most used to visit my site.

That’s a solid 64% of all people coming to my site in 2006 thus far. IE got only 21%.

Go Firefox.

Just thought I’d pass on a little shortcut for looking up Bugtraq IDs:

** Firefox only

1. Go to google.com and right click in the search field
2. Select “Add a Keyword For This Search…”
3. In the name field type, “Bugtraq Vulnerability Quicksearch” (or whatever)
4. In the keyword field, enter “bid” or “vuln” — again, up to you. This is your shortcut.
5. Save the bookmark and then go to Bookmarks –> Organize Bookmarks and edit the properties of the bookmark you just made.
6. In the properties field, replace what’s there with the following URL: http://search.securityfocus.com/swsearch?query=bid%20%s&sbm=bid&metaname =alldoc&sort=swishrank (all one line)
7. Save your bookmark again and prepare to be impressed.

Now, just go to your address bar (cmd/ctrl-L) and type bid 1499 , like so:

The results are beautiful:

Very nice. Very nice indeed. I’ve been using beta 1 since it came out and this is a considerable improvement.

They’ve done some work on the look (icons and such), and it seems to be a bit faster as well. Definitely check it out if you’re into the beta thing.

OMFG.

I am currently using the Firefox 2.0 Beta and something just happened to me that just changed my life. I misspelled something while writing my Boston post below, and it put a red line under it.

I optimistically right-clicked the text and it gave me the correct spelling — just like Word does. So brutal. I have so been craving this feature and I didn’t even know we were getting it with Firefox 2.0.

If you misspell like I do, write a lot online, and are a Firefox user — you may want to look into getting in on the beta. It’s wicked cool.

I don’t have any idea why I didn’t know this before, but in Firefox you can search within a given web page by pressing the "/" key (that’s a forward slash). For those that are *nix-literate, you’ll recognize this as the way to search within vi.