Hijacking the broswer

AOL has made a few “whoops” moves in the past week or so, ranging from shoving AIM bots into the top of everyone’s buddy lists to adding ad banners to unsuspecting AOLJournal users, and they’ve recieved a bit of a “bruhaha” (as Jason Calacanis puts it) in the blogosphere in the past couple of days. Personally, I’d add something to the matter but Clacanis has basically covered all the important things on his own blog, so why repeat?

But what gets me is that the other day I updated to the newer version of Wizz RSS for my newsreading fun in the hope that they’d added a feature I made up (you know, since they’re telepathic and all): that double-clicking on any of the RSS feed headers would take me to the feed’s respective home page. That would be sweet.

Unfortunatley, the only noticeable change is that Wizz now hijacks my broswer and sets my start page to the Wizz Computing homepage, regardless of how I configure Firefox. This is phenominally uncool.

So I’ve sent a little feedback note / question to “Andrew,” the guy who runs things there, and we’ll see if I can clear this up. If not, I guess I’ll go searching for an older and less intrusive version of the plugin.

UPDATE: I did hear back from them, quite quickly, and it turns out that I just had to re-install the plugin because there must have been some glitch in the install file I was using — regardless, it’s all fine and dandy now. I should go ahead and suggest the feature I thought of ;)