Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE

Article gleaned from Slashdot over the weekend:

A recent CNet article suggests that Mozilla should pipe a lite version of Firefox into older PCs to further attack IE's dominance: 'Firefox supporters, take note. A bare-bones Firefox will get the browser into more houses, increasing the Fox's market share and keeps it in novice users' eyes for when they get a new PC ... a truly great super-lightweight browser would have the security of Firefox, without the add-ons, without the tabs, yes, even without favourites, history lists and customisability. The Firefox name is synonymous with security and Web-browsing vigilance. Why not give this to the processing lightweights of the PC world?'

Encrypt and Sign Gmail messages with FireGPG

Linux.com (Same owners as Slashdot) has a story up about FireGPG:

Gmail may be an excellent Web-based email application, but there is no easy way to use it with privacy tools like GnuPG. The FireGPG extension for Firefox is designed to solve this problem. It integrates nicely into Gmail's interface and allows you to sign and encrypt not only email messages but also text snippets from any Web page.

Looks like another fun extension to play with... I haven't used GPG in awhile, I'd have to dig up my keys from wherever I stored them...

20 must-have Firefox extensions

Computerworld is running a story on the 20 must have Firefox extensions. I do use many of these, some I have no need for but others, especially the web developer ones, I've been meaning to try out.