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[John Barresi]

Just picked up an addon for FF, check this out...



It embeds a download menu directly into any YouTube video page, allowing me to grab any available size/format of what I'm watching.

[John Barresi]

Just added Chrome to the poll (top of this page), you should be able to delete and reassign your vote - if you want.

[--Pete]

The funny thing is that I switch between browsers on a regular basis. I'll use one browser for a while, then switch to another. I have no strong attachment to any particular browser. Frankly I really liked Lynx (text only UNIX browser) from back in the bad old days when I was cruising the web using a 1200 baud modem. It was great. It NEVER downloaded images unless I made a special effort, and then it just downloaded them to my computer, where I had to open the images with a different program. Now, a 1x1 pixel image hidden on a web page can trigger a virus from some bad-hat website to infect your computer. (grump, grump, uphill, both ways).

[Reef Runner]

Hey Pete, I can't even remember the first browser I used. It was probably something, and I didn't even know that it was a browser.........but as I mentioned earlier in this post (I think), I've been using Internet Explorer & FireFox lately. Don't really like Chrome, or Fire Fox, for that matter. I suppose I'm just hooked into IE, for now. I know, I know, Microsoft, Gates, etc, but, it is, what it is (just whatever you get use to). I guess you've really got the right idea. Just keep switching around...............

Oh, and Happy New Year !!

[--Pete]

Nick,

I have a lot of good feelings for Bill Gates, Windows, and Microsoft. I began using home computers back when it was a crap shoot (with poor odds) whether ANY piece of hardware or software would work with your computer. I have boxes and boxes of hardware and software for DOS (in all its versions) and for OSs and computers that predate the "IBM-PC", that never worked and whose makers never supported their products.

When Windows came along (with all its faults) you could look at some add-on for your computer and if it said "Certified to work with Windows", then you had a really good chance that it WOULD work, and you could operate it without reference to any manual. I'm a big fan of standards - make it to this specification, with these menus, with these features, and you can put this sticker on your product.

Windows has had its ups and downs since those days, and I'm using a Mac for most of my computing these days, but I still feel grateful to Microsoft for leading out that particular bandwagon (standards for software and hardware).

Oh, and Happy New Year to you as well. (And all the rest of the KiteLife gang.)

[Reef Runner]

Ahh Pete....................cheers !

[windofchange]

I use Firefox exclusively now days. Main reason - I can customize it for my own likes. With the personas and massive amounts of addons it has become not only a very fast browser, but a tool that I would have a hard time working and browsing without it.