Best news for me over the last ten days is the new MicroB Gecko-based browser for the Nokia internet tablets.

As it happens, I’m just finishing writing my first Firefox extension.* I’m no magician, but I can manage a satisfactory amount of prestidigitation in Javascript. Having an appropriately scaled venue at last for my talent and ambition (an extension, get it? not a whole app) gratifies me immensely.

And hopefully the overhead of implementing XUL (”zool,” rhymes with “tool”), the Mozilla-created XML UI language, will drop in future and I can use that familiarity on the tablet, too.

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* I’ll let people know when it’s officially out. It’s a dictionary extension — highlight a word and choose “look up [that word]” in the context menu. Unlike other extensions, this one returns the results in a side or bottom panel. And, um, at the moment it works only with the Khmer, Thai, Lao and Burmese dictionaries at SEAlang.net . . .