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I have been using Firefox 4 since the second beta version and I have been impressed with the new look and speed, but I have run into many problems with the beta.  There are many sites that do not work properly and many of those sites fail mainly because of the Javascript on the site.  One nice thing about the Firefox 4 beta is that I can report back to Mozilla quickly and easily when something does not work and I have taken the time to report the problems back to Mozilla.  I am hoping they are listening and fixing the problems that I have reported.

I decided several weeks ago that I was going with VMware Fusion for virtualizing my office environment.  I really wanted to stay with Parallels as it performed much better, but I ended up going with VMware Fusion because of all the VMware images that I needed to run related to my job.

My favorite editor for a while has been jEdit.  It is Java based and would run on any platform, because of Java, but one day when I needed to run jEdit, it just would not run on my Windows machine.  I ended up removing jEdit, re-installing Java, and then re-installing jEdit before everything started working again.

In my last blog entry, I was complaining that VMware Fusion was noticeably slower than Parallels.  I also found that somebody pointed out, thanks Pat, that there is a beta version of VMware Fusion 3.1 and the release notes indicated speed improvements, especially with the graphics, which is the biggest problem that I had with VMware Fusion.  I have since downloaded the beta software and I had to say that I am pleasantly surprised that all my issues with the per

I fired up VMware Fusion on my Mac last night and converted my Parallels images into Fusion.  The conversion went very smoothly and I was up and running in Fusion as easy as the conversion from VirtualBox to Parallels.  Like Parallels, Fusion supports Windows 7 Aero, but Fusion does not seem to perform as cleanly as Parallels.  In Parallels, Windows opening, and minimizing were quick and snappy.  I find in Fusion they are just a bit slower, sometimes like