I've decided to retire GoogleTabs, one of the very first extensions I ever wrote. GoogleTabs adds a context-menu option to open all of the Google search results on the current page in tabs.

I made this decision for several reasons:

• I don't have time to keep up with Google. Every time they change the HTML for any of their search result pages, I have to update the extension and release a new version.
• I don't use the extension. All of my other extensions came about to fill one of my browsing needs, and in a few cases, other people found the extension useful as well. Since I never really used GoogleTabs, I don't feel the same need to keep it current.
• There are better solutions. There are other extensions like Snap Links and Linky that do the same thing, but on a wider scale. It doesn't make sense to have a Google-specific version when you can have one extension that mass-opens links on all webpages.

According to Mozilla Addons, GoogleTabs was downloaded a total of 95,322 times (plus the downloads directly from my site), so it had a pretty good run. Rest in peace, GoogleTabs.

Google has added a traffic overlay to its map service, and they've miraculously included the Twin Cities metro area.

I never go anywhere, but my wife is going to love this.

Now that Google Reader is reporting the number of users subscribed to a feed, I can finally tell that there are 35 people using Google Reader to read my feed. I wouldn't have thought that 35 people *total* subscribed to my feed, but judging by what the other user-agents are reporting, about 50 people use a Web-based feed aggregator to subscribe to my blog. Neat!

Google sees me for who I really am.

I've been thinking recently that it'd be fun to see what domains are listed first in the auto-complete for my URL bar for each letter of the alphabet. Shall we?

archive.org: a digital library of Internet sites. Most recently, I checked it to get a cached copy of the RSS 0.91 DTD.

blog.netscape.com: the official blog of Netscape Communications Corporation.

calacanis.com: The blog of Jason Calacanis, Internet entrepreneur.

digg.com: User-driven social content. A great place to stay current on (mostly) tech news.

chrisfinke.com: Duh.

fark.com: It's not news, it's one of the Internet's greatest time-wasters.

gmail.google.com: The best webmail application ever.

hyperculture.typepad.com: A fairly interesting blog that covers various tech news.

imdb.com: The Internet Movie Database. I probably used it last to see what other movies the actors from The Office have been in.

jacob.chrisfinke.com: My little brother's website.

kb.mozillazine.org: Documentation for Mozilla products.

lifeintheoffice.com: A blog that covers all things Office.

meatgasm.com: A blog focusing on the wonderful world of meat.

netscape.com: Social news with editorial oversight.

opera.com: The Opera Web browser.

php.net: Documentation for the PHP programming language.

q - None. Apparently, I haven't visited a domain starting with "q" in the last month.

reddit.com: Another social news website.

slashdot.org: The place to discuss the latest tech news.

techmeme.org: The place to find the latest tech news.

userstyles.org: A repository of styles for Mozilla applications. They have some great Firefox customizations.

videos.netscape.com: The Popular Videos channel of Netscape.com.

woot.com: An online store: One Day, One Deal.

xulplanet.com: Documentation for the XUL markup language.

youtube.com: Oh, you haven't heard of it? It's this obscure unknown website where people upload videos of themselves tubing down various rivers of the world.

zefrank.com: The funniest three minutes of my day.

I think this list sums me up pretty well. I'm not sadistic enough to try to turn this into a pyramid meme, but does anyone else want to reveal the A-Z of their browser history?