It’s been a while since I last used IE. As a front-end guy I use IE Tester, a simple app that has multiple versions of IE bundled together. So if you need IE 6 you add a new tab with IE 6 running in it. Awesome!

So the last time I really used IE was the last time I reinstalled Windows and needed to download Firefox. But as Firefox 3.6 came out yesterday (2 days ago really, I upgraded yesterday) the only game I play stopped working.

The reason why I started running IE again is that Battlefield Heroes is not compatible with Firefox 3.6 (yet).

The Battlefield Heroes developers already confirmed the bug and said a fix is on the way. Unfortunately, nobody seems to understand why they didn’t test the game when FF 3.6 was in beta (there were more then one beta versions).

In case you’re wondering, Battlefield Heroes is a free online shooter game. You install on your computer but in order to run it you need to go to the official website, log in and the game launches via a browser addon. At the moment only Firefox and Internet Explorer are supported, and as FF doesn’t work, I went back to using IE to start the game.

Now the fine print: I still use FF for all my day-to-day activities. I use IE only to run the game.

Microsoft has announced it’s annual Dream.Build.Play! contest for 2010 and it’s going to be lenendary! If you’re interested in videogames and earining fame and fortune in the process then this is just the competition for you.

All you need to do is build a video game that’s 40% fun, 30% innovative and polished up like a gold plate and you might be a $40.000 grand prize winner. You also need to be over 16.

There are 3 more prizes to be won, $20.000, $10.000 and $5.000 (I’m aiming for the $20.000 one, so make sure you don’t make anything better then me!)

Also to make things more interesting, Old Spice is throwing away an extra $60.000 in a separate DBP contest to celebrate their 4 new deodorant fragrances (Matterhorn, Fiji, Denali, Cyprus). You can compete in both the standard and OS contests with the same game!

The circus starts on Jan 19th and ends on March 3rd 2010, so start working.

BTW, before you get your hopes up, here’s a video of the last years winner (it’s awesome).