Occasionally I like to remove a bunch of cookies from a SeaMonkey profile, unfortunately at some point it appears the Great Dumbing Down is spreading even to obscure browsers such as this Netscape descendant, and the "Tools > Cookie Manager > Manage Stored Cookies" dialogue only allows you to delete cookies for individual sites (trying to mark multiple sites no longer works).

Luckily it appears there is a hidden chrome URL which still offers this functionality:

chrome://communicator/content/permissions/cookieViewer.xul

(paste into the address bar).

There's a list of similar useful chrome URLs here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Chrome_URLs

I've heard about version number jumps for marketing purposes, but this latest move by browser producer Opera, springing 81 releases, verges on the ridiculous.

The former technical news forum Slashdot, currently masquerading as a repository for duplicated posts, has adopted HTML 4.01 and CSS.

The move comes as flying porcine creatures were seen being ejected at speed accompanied by clouds of dry ice from a deep shaft signed "to Purgatory" near Andover, Massachussets, USA.

"Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs.": blogsearch.google.com

Another Google product celebrating the Decade of the Beta Web Service.

Hmm, interesting. More info from Google here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html and there's also a Google group.

Webmaster World has a thread in its Supporter's Forum.

Just when you thought it was safe to surf the Internet again - up pops another worrisome browser "feature" , this time in Mozilla-based browsers including Firefox.

This feature goes by the name of prefetch, and it's been around for several years but has never got much attention until Google announced the introduction of "Enhanced searching with Firefox".