My current personal version of Firefox is more than a little bit behindthe times, so I've been looking at upgrading to Firefox 3 (I compilemy own version with various hacks, and it's easiest to build from thebleeding edge CVS sources). As a result, I spent part of today tryingvarious of my essential extensions to see which ofthem still work.

Here's the current state of affairs:

• NoScript has beenupdated for the current Firefox 3 beta and works fine. It'

Here is a thesis:

There are two sorts of languages: languages where writing your own codeis (usually) almost as fast as using the builtin features, and languageswhere the builtins are an order of magnitude faster than doing the samework in your own code.

C is an example of the first sort of language; it is merely silly, notlaughably absurd, to reimplement your own version of strchr() . Pythonis an example of the second sort of language; it's utterly stupid towrite