Gary

Ah!

Spring Break is almost here. w00t!!

I’m going to spend more of my time just catching up on ignored things such as TMP, theme fixing in my computer as well as cleanup. Maybe even get some time to myself to watch a couple of unwatched movies.

Can’t wait.

TMP went from being in the third page of most popular to the first in the second page.

Now its in the first page of most popular aka TOP 10. Its great news. No time did I think we would get more than 50k downloads a week.

We now even beat TBP. Hopefully more will use it and it will remain there for quite some time. Were at number 7, can we get 6? Perhaps. Watch out IE TAB

I feel happy today. This week has been great and next week, I won’t have to work much. Hope it continues

I don’t know how to feel right now. Too many things coming together and not mixing well. I want to rest for a while.

I can not wait for weekend. It is almost here. Weekends are all that I have to wait for. It is the time only time that I can truly spend time with my girlfriend Valerie and spend time working on the extensions. Its weird how I put those 2 together but I do. Its only 3 days but its three days that give me freedom to do whatever I want. It seems that the entire weekdays are going fast but I’m not complaining.

As you can see, I have redesigned my website. Not only externally but also internally.

I am now going to focus on redesigning the Tab Mix Plus homepage. I want something more professional. If possible I’ll try to implement it in php since I like that language as well.

One thing though is that I can’t be visually creative for the life of me. If any of you could provide any ideas as to what content should go there, it would be awesome. We are already going to be converting the help file into html or something more easier.

From InformationWeek

Tab Mix Plus sounds like a brand of cat food — but believe me, your cat should have it this good

I didn’t realize at first but after it was explained to me, there was a cat named “Tabby”, and there is a cat food named “Meow Mix”

So TMP is Meow Mix for tabby cats

I don’t know how I’ve been feeling lately, but I have gotten some negative feedback from some users. I have no problem with it, its just how some come about it. Anyways I have been having this on my mind and wanted to point it out.

A developer takes a great risk by developing an extension for tabs. Why you ask? We’ll because tabs are broad and users want more control of it. This is what I and onemen tried to do. However as we add more functionality that people requested, we get more that complain about it. Because of this, we turn stuff off and add options for it. Guess what? This isn’t good enough, as it is seen as bloat. Bloat is a very hurtful word to developer, well at least me.

I try to please as many people as I can. This is getting to a conflict. We have users that like simplicity and are very afraid of option. Most of these are the same that don’t take time to look over the whole extension or the documentation provided. Who else offers great(at least I think so) support and documentation. Anyways, they request features that have always been there. For example, at first people didn’t recognize that the close button was provided. I had it off by default but I now turned it on so that they could see that it is available. I don’t think I should do this should I?

The second type of people are the ones that like more customization. I try to please these as well because sometimes I might want the same feature. However, as time goes by, the features they want are getting overdone. Implementing them would increase the size and also cause some problems. Some of their problems are with a minor annoyance such as shortcut keys. I honestly don’t think I should implement ability to change because of another extension. Why can’t the other extension do it or why cant the user take the initiative to do it themselves?

As you can see I try to please 2 kinds of people. Can you see how they may conflict with each others from time to time. I am not sure what the future for the extension is but I just don’t understand the overall opinion of the extension. I guess that is a problem faced by everyone.

For everyone that doesn’t belong in any of the groups, I thank you. There are many that stay with the decisions I make. The extension wouldn’t be it without you.

Every user has different surfing habits and extensions should try to adapt to it. I just don’t see the position my extension.