Yesterday I finally bit the bullet and updated Windows XP to Service Pack 3 on one of my machines. I’m still trying to find out what extra features it may have added apart from security patches and bugfixes. Microsoft just seems to lead you in circles on their website. I did make sure the machine I updated had a Pentium processor, as I had heard that Windows XP SP3 caused problems on machines with AMD processors. Of course Microsoft may have fixed that by now, but I wasn’t taking any chances.

Firefox 3 is a different story. After only using the portable edition for several weeks, I finally installed Firefox 3 onto all but one machine, which is actually the machine I’m writing this particular blog entry on. I’m having to jump through a few well-documented hoops to have Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 running on the same machine (but obviously not at the same time). The main reason is because a large number of my favorite Firefox 2 add-ons have not yet been upgraded for Firefox 3. Eventually I guess I may have to do without Tab Mix Plus.

Posted on August 19th, 2008 by mervyn