Eclectic Echoes

What does Firefox Say About Me

A week or so ago, Liz Lawley showed her online life as reported by her browser. I thought it was a very interesting idea, unfortunately I had just done a fresh installation of Firefox–prefering to instal the 1.0 release on a clean slate–so there was nothing my browser would report. Now however, going up to the address bar and typing in each letter of the alphabet this is what my browser says about me:

• a - Amazon
• b - Binary Bonsai
• c - CGNetworks
• d - Digital Producer
• e - Editors Bin
• f - FTP Online – Web Design: A Decade Under the Influence
• g - Gmail
• h - Heupel.com
• i - Index Tools
• j - Joel on Software
• k - The K Desktop Environment
• l - live.curry.org
• m - mamamusings
• n - Nick Bradbury
• o - OSX-E
• p - panel.dreamhost.com
• q - nothing, no q’s here…
• r - RichardGoodwin.com
• s - Apple Store
• t - Typography - Hoefler & Frere-Jones
• u - The Untergeek
• v - Newtek Forums
• w - WordPress Wiki
x - another blank, poor x and q…

• y - Redland Youth Ministries - a product of MeanDean
• z - zengarden - that’s what I usually type into the address bar, it resolves to the right place through google, even ahead of the domain, zengarden.com

I also looked at the number keys, 0–9, but there were far more blanks:

• 0 -
• 1 - came up with y internal testing server on a 192.168 network.
• 2 - 2005 Bloggies
• 3 - 37signal’s Signal vs. Noise
• 4 -
• 5 -
• 6 -
• 7 - D. Kieth Robinson’s Asterisk
• 8 -
• 9 -
Posted by Eric at January 3, 2005 05:11 PM | TrackBack