I’ve been a huge fan of the online Google Reader ever since they launched the much needed redesign almost a year ago. Since then I think they’ve taken feed reading to a whole new level, and have drawn many users away from Bloglines.

Today Ask, who acquired Bloglines back in 2005, announced that

I’ve come across quite a few places that let you submit thumbnail images of your own site (such as MyBlogLog), but creating the thumbnail is never as easy as it should be. If you take a screenshot yourself you probably sit there messing with the dimensions and cropping the image until it is just right.

Thumbalizr is here to save the day! All you have to do is punch

Another vulnerability has been found in Firefox, and this one makes it possible for a hacker to retrieve the settings and variables used in extensions. The person who discovered the flaw was able to steal a dynamically generated password created by the Fire Encrypter extension.

So how serious is this? Read for yourself:

It basically means that everyone can probe all

Firefox is known for having its inline spell checker that underlines misspelled words as you type them. I truly believe that this feature in Firefox has helped the Internet as a whole become more readable by reducing the number of misspellings in even the simplest things, like comments.

Mozilla does provide multiple languages for their dictionaries, but Opera also gets some of its own Ajaxy goodness with a script that

This is actually "old" news, but worth pointing out.  Back in December, Google added their first bit of Ajax to their search.  Although it's been around for a couple of months, it took Read/Write Web pointing it out before I even noticed it.  Sometimes these new features blend right in, and it takes pointing it out before you notice it.

You'll find this new addition if a search result has an