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Goodbye Opera, Hello Chrome

Well as part of saying why I made Simple Notepad I thought I should start at the beginning and say why I moved to Google Chrome. For years I had been a fan of Opera, not the music although they do have some catchy tunes, but the browser. I can't remember when I first started to use it as my main browser but it was around 2002 probably. Now I am obviously not the longest serving Opera user, nor did I use all of its features. I did appreciate however that it was the fastest browser around and that I got an inner glow for using a browser that complied with specifications. I even put up with it not working with every web page I visited and needing to fall back to IE at times. I can't pinpoint the exact release where it started to go wrong, but was either in the late 9.x versions or the early 10.x versions. So what was wrong? Occasionally I would not be able to log into my Gmail account, a bit weird and it was reported a lot with a few settings tweaks to fix it which certainly made

Simple Notepad Release 1.0

Today is a momentous day, at least for me. It's not my birthday, nor any other day similar to that, and on the grand scale of things it's not nearly as momentous as my children being born. So what happened then? Well I finished a personal software project woohoo, well when I say finished I actually mean I released the first version of my Google Chrome Extension Simple Notepad . Why did I create it? What is it for? I'll leave that and the things that I learnt whilst doing it to subsequent posts.