Matisyahu's Blog

Firefox 128.0.2 has been released (link) – a minor update that fixed some annoying bugs. I haven’t noticed anything major, it’s as reliable as always. The one thing I did notice which I like is how when using Google Chat the icon on the tab has a red dot when someone has replied back to you which for strange some reason it doesn’t occur on Safari. I’m also enjoying the super content blocking experience that uBlock Origin affords due to Firefox maintaining MV2 API compatibility. Although Firefox doesn’t run natively on the iPhone the truth be known is that I do most of my ‘web surfing’ on my laptop or desktop where as with my mobile I’m primarily using apps such as the Reddit app or the RNZ app etc.

There are rumours of Google launching the Pixel 9, Pixel Watch 3, Pixel buds pro 2 along with a replacement for the Chromecast with Google TV with the rumoured ‘Google TV Streamer (link) – let’s hope that they don’t do something stupid like launch the product in only one country the act surprised their sales aren’t good then convince themselves that it is the price not the lack of availability being the cause of the poor sales. It reminds me of what a former programmer who worked for Microsoft said about the rise of Microsoft Office – the competition was fragmented and made a series of bad decisions rather than Microsoft Office being the outstanding technological superior product. I can’t help but get the feeling that in the technology space the winners end up getting there because the organisations offering alternatives are so dysfunctional resulting in many companies being their own worse enemy.