I know I’m a little behind, but I finally got to downloading the lastest version of Firefox: version 3.

It’s not bad… although it looks a lot like Safari, very chromy Apple style. Not that I don’t like that, good for unity with a lot of other Mac programs, just liked the old way better I think.

I don’t notice too much difference with it yet, speed or effeciency-wise, but I love this add-on I found. It may have been there with Firefox 2 - actually, I’m pretty sure it was but I was unaware of it. It’s called FoxyTunes and it’s actually pretty awesome. It allows you to access all the controls for your music player (be it iTunes or otherwise) through the Firefox window. It also provides a link to the song that’s now playing and it searches for all information on that particular artist and song - like a mashup.

For example: The song currently playing is Forever, by Chris Brown. I click on the link and it opens a new tab in my Firefox window, taking me to a FoxyTunes page that displays everything from videos on YouTube, lyrics from Yahoo! Lyrics, similar artists on Last.Fm, related Flickr photos, web search by Yahoo!, and links to that artist’s albums on Amazon. The only thing I would think to add to this would be a list of local concerts, if any, by the particular artist you’re currently listening to.

I swear people are finally starting to get smarter about the web. Better usability is on the rise - thank goodness. We’ve finally discovered that people want a lot of information and in about 2 clicks or less. I don’t want to visit a lyrics website, and Amazon, and YouTube, and Flickr, and this, and that - I want one place that does it all, 10x faster. This will become more and more of a trend with everything soon. We’re finally starting to roll it out across all demographics, yoot.

Until next time.

Peace.

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