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Twitter has suspended its new retweet function.

Now, this takes me back.

When I started writing about technology this stuff was commonplace. A software company would announce a new version or a new package, its target date would come and go and then it would be released as buggy as anything.

Windows itself didn't get it right until version 3.1 (3.0 caught the imagination of the market, 3.1 worked a load better).

FireFox 3.5 is due out by the end of June and includes some pretty interesting new features--and not a moment too soon.

Some of these new features include the ability to play videos in the browser without the need to download and install a third-party plugin.

It also includes TraceMonkey, which is a JavaScript Engine that is much faster (And hopefully less buggy) than the one in previous FireFox versions.

This is all good news but you realize that with every bit of good news there's something dark and mysterious waiting to be brought into the light: Plugins.

I hate plugins. Hate them. They...