The MacAlba

A few months ago I reported on four Firefox browser extensions that I found invaluable. Today, an update.

Firefox v1.5 was released a little while ago. Some of the extensions I had been using hadn’t been upgraded, at that time, to work with Firefox v1.5. Rather than stay with the then superceded version of Firefox, I upgraded to v1.5 and revised the list of extensions I used.

Instead of the four previously used, I now use only two:

• I replaced the Google Toolbar with Googlebar Lite
• I replaced the the functionality provided by Tabbrowser Preferences and SessionSaver with Tab Mix Plus

I don’t bother now with a Bookmarks Synchronizer. For the time being I manually save the bookmarks.html file from Firefox’s internal bookmarks manager.

I bought this CD, “Snafu”, after discovering that the tracks had been remastered, and the CD re-issued. The group, “East of Eden” and the album, “Snafu”, date back to the early 1970’s.

The music is of sentimental value to me in that a couple of the tracks, “Jig-a-Jig” and “Marcus Junior”, were amongst the very first vinyl singles I purchased as a youth. I still have that the vinyl, but, given that such things aren’t as conveniently played as ripped CDs, I haven’t touched it for years.

Some of the other tracks on the CD were new to me. Some are somewhat “strange”, perhaps “psychedelic”, and most certainly belong in the ’70s.

The band has been classified as 70’s rock but to me there are also elements of jazz, blues and electric folk.