Tag: Firefox

• A Mid-2000s Linux Distro Made Me Wonder What Could Have Been

  

  I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I’ll gladly say it until I’m in the grave: Windows XP is still my favorite Windows of all time, period. It’s not even close. But upon thinking about it again, I started to realize something about that period of my life, which I will touch back…

  Jack Allan Hyde

  October 17, 2026

  Linux

  Anemoia, Colemak, Commercial Linux distributions, Console, Crystal XP, Customization, Discontinued distros, Firefox, Frutiger Aero, KDE 3, Lindows, Linux, OpenOffice, PC/OpenSystems, Retrospective, Skeuomorphism, Solitaire, technology, Terminal, Virtual Machine, Windows XP, Xandros Community Edition, Xandros Linux

• A Few Fast, Easy Commands to Start Using Vimium C

  

  I admit that it initially took me a while to really “get” Vim commands, to really appreciate them. That eventually changed, and I still use them in Obsidian to this day. But what if there was a way to get similar commands elsewhere, like in the browser? What if there was a way to control…

  Jack Allan Hyde

  July 10, 2025

  Linux

  Apps that support Vim shortcuts, Brave, Browser, Browser Extension, Chrome, Firefox, Getting started, How-To, Linux, Neovim, Productivity, programming, Shortcuts, technology, Tutorial, Vim, Vim shortcuts, Vimium C

• Revisiting (and Returning To) Vivaldi Browser

  

  The Mid-Aughts: Switching from Internet Explorer to Firefox I’ve used web browsers just like anybody else who’s touched a computer in the past two decades, but it was only around the mid-2000s when I started to actually pay some attention to internet browsers in general. As somebody who used Windows XP (still my favorite Windows…

  Jack Allan Hyde

  May 6, 2023

  Browsers

  Browsers, Chromium, Features, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Linux, Manifest V3, Marketshare, Skeuomorphism, Switching, Vivaldi, Vivaldi Browser, Windows, Workspaces