I found VirtualBox back in March and it’s been just awesome. Version 3.0.10 has been released; I was notified via the automatic updater [yea! I love those things].

If your an IT Administrator/Consultant or just a ‘Curious Jobe’, your going to find yourself loving virtual box. It’s like playing the house with firecrackers, but the house is made of [well] everything fireproof.

I mean seriously, who likes living not knowing how everything works and what it takes to get to this, or that point- not me.

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I keep checking on the latest versions of Firefox ‘Minefield’ and in some respects that’s what it is a minefield.

Firefox is no doubt well established and has a wide array of plug-ins that make it super adaptable to just about anything and everything you need to do with your web browser. And all these functions and nifty features are based on people that were nice enough to donate their time and code to making it that great.

But there’s a problem, Minefield is having to put these same open source loving people back to work to revise or recode their extensions to handle a 64-bit world. Firefox is the most popular browser in Europe and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 has shown poor acceptance since it’s release; even with Microsoft pushing it as a ‘CRITICAL UPDATE’ for the Windows Operating System.

It’s no lie, 64-bit is here to stay and by no means is it on it’s heels. No; it’s got it’s running shoes and and it’s digging in for a nice long run if the 32-bit era has any example to throw to this. We won’t see 128-bit systems for a very long time.

The thing I love about Minefield it’s fast and it’s Firefox; and faster than Chrome. While it’s wrong to simply come out and cry foul cause there’s not all the popular plug-ins for Minefield, there are some coming in slowly. And you’re not going to get me to switch to Google’s Chrome. Even on my site, I only have 1% of the traffic coming to my site using Google’s Chrome; it still has a long way to go.

The market is steadily being flowed with 64-bit systems and while some systems run fine, running 32-bit apps in a 64-bit Operating System, other have disruptive problems and it’s usually the squeaky wheel that gets the grease, but not before.

I’ll keep watching…

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Enjoy. 

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