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Ubiquiti has released Unifi OS upgrade from 4.0.21 to 4.1.13 and the Unifi Network Application to 9.0.108 – so far everything has been rock solid and reliable which will be great when I head back to work on Wednesday where I’ll be working from home.

Firefox 134 is going to be released this week and hopefully uBlock Origin 1.62.0 which has been released on the project’s github website will appear on the Firefox addon website so it can be installed. I’ll continue using Chrome but I’ll see what is happening in the world of Firefox because I’m hoping that as Interop 2024 finishes and Interop 2025 is announced that the days of websites not working with particular browsers will come to an end and instead users will have the joy of being able to choose the browser they wish to use rather than the website they visit making that choice for them.

There is currently a flag in Chrome on Android where it will be possible to put the address bar at the bottom of the screen and as noted in a prior blog post how there are the beginnings of extensions for Chrome on Android. Extensions on Android lines up with the larger rumour that Google is working to replace ChromeOS with Android – one operating system that rules them all with a UI that is able to adapt to the form factor it is being used on. I’ve tried Android apps on ChromeOS but the experience has never been smooth and in many cases developers are required to update their application so if the future means Android from top to bottom and can make use of the huge library of apps that Google has then new opportunities will open.

The Pixel 9 Pro XL is going great, went for a walk to post a parcel and if anyone is wondering, it is fully working on the Skinny/Spark network including 5G support along with 4G and VoLTE so if you do plan to buy it then you’ll find that it’ll keep working after Spark turns off their 3G network in 2025 (link) where the Huawei equipment will be removed (if I remember correctly Spark has been using Nokia for their 4G and 5G roll outs in conjunction with a few other vendors) and I’d say that the 3G frequencies of 850MHz and 2100MHz will be reused for 5G where 4G will be fall back and 5G will be where all the ‘action’ will take place in much the same way that 3G was the fall back and 4G was where all the ‘action’ takes place. One of the benefits Spark inherited is the lack of legacy – Spark went from analogue to CDMA2000 then to 3G UTMS meaning they were ‘all in transitions’ vs 2 Degrees and One NZ that could do a gradual transition.