10.13.09 - 05:24pm
The Mozilla Plugin Check page was released today, so I loaded it up to see the latest changes. “Looks good,” I thought, and skimmed the list of plugins it displayed for me. Quicktime, Silverlight, Flash, and… Woah, wait.
Silverlight?
On my OS X box? How the fuck did that get there? I sure don’t remember installing [...]
10.08.09 - 11:09pm
If you’re running nightly builds of trunk or Firefox 3.6, you may notice a smoother progress bar while installing the nightly updates…
The old progress bar behavior had always seemed a bit odd to me — it would do nothing for a bit, move to about 15% point, and then suddenly finish. I didn’t get around [...]
10.08.09 - 02:13pm
While sheriffing yesterday, I was a bit confused when dbaron asked if I was looking into all the orange. The tree (http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/Firefox/) looked mostly green, except for a handful of earlier Talos oranges. So, yadda yadda, it turns out that most of the test boxes report to a separate tinderbox tree now — http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/Firefox-Unittest/. There [...]
10.04.09 - 08:17pm
I got a new Windows desktop last week, and was curious if enabling disk compression would have any effect on build times… The theory being that source code compresses well (binaries too, to a lesser degree), so less disk IO should result. The price is more CPU usage, but this is a Core i7 box, [...]
08.24.09 - 12:21am
Doug just posted about the device orientation support he recently landed. Sitting here with my MacBook Pro, I just had to play with it — resulting in this little demo. Orientation + CSS Transforms FTW!
06.04.09 - 04:45pm
In the past, figuring out how to build Firefox from source tended to be really confusing. The documentation explained too much about how the build system worked, how multiple projects were built, presented too many choices, and generally had lots of details not relevant to most people.
A couple weeks ago, someone on IRC pointed out [...]
03.28.09 - 01:58pm
Today the Houston Zoo is debuting the “World’s Cutest Animal“. It’s a red panda, also known as a Firefox.
Everybody say “awwwwww!”
02.13.09 - 01:49pm
I finally found a use for my N800 (which has been been sitting unused for some time). It’s now perched on my desk, under my monitor, giving me instant, up-to-the-minute status of the tree… Yep, that’s Fennec and http://isthetreegreen.com.
Sadly, the main observation from this is that the tree is almost never green these days. :-(
02.09.09 - 02:28pm
Personas, for those not familiar with it, is a Firefox add-on from Mozilla Labs that allows you to easily reskin the browser. Sort of like a theme, but different.
This weekend I decided to make a bacon persona. It was really easy to do; I just made a couple of JPEGs and submitted them to the [...]
01.25.09 - 03:32pm
The internets are serious business. When you’ve got questions, they’ve got answers… Is Lost on TV? Is it a rerun? What year is it? 2009? 2010? Has the LHC destroyed the world yet? Is Abe Vigoda still alive? Is it MFBT?
Which brings us to the question frequently asked by Mozilla developers. Is the tree green? [...]
