05.06.08 - 03:32pm
I last blogged in February about some inadequacies with the SafeBrowsing warning page in Firefox 3. There have been some changes since then, which I think greatly improve things.
Here’s the current warning page in Firefox 3:
Just subtle changes here. Notably, there’s now a small “Ignore this warning” link to bypass the warning and load the […]
03.31.08 - 12:56am
Testing seems to be the topic du jour this weekend… A few remarks.
I don’t think this is a discussion that should be framed as an argument between pro-test and anti-test factions. In fact, I’m not even sure the latter group really exists. Yes, some modules could be better at adding tests on a regular basis, […]
02.17.08 - 08:08pm
I’ve rarely hit the Google SafeBrowsing (malware) warning page, but last week it flagged a few sites that caught my attention. One was example.com (a reserved domain, which amusingly caused our test suite to fail :). The others were real web sites, both for popular Firefox extensions — joehewitt.com and downthemall.net.
Blocking the user when […]
02.11.08 - 12:15am
David Baron reminded me on IRC that there have been throbber design contests in the past…
There’s this Netscape page for a 1995 (?) animation contest (holy 16-color flashback, batman!), which conveniently has images for each frame for the winner and top 5 entries… APNG time!
Here’s the winner (left), and the final version that made it […]
02.10.08 - 08:01pm
As you might have heard, the theme for Firefox 3 has been undergoing a refresh. Alex Faaborg has been blogging about most of the big changes, but I thought I’d mention one little piece of remaining work — the throbber — and see what other ideas people had.
Here are the two throbbers used in Firefox […]
11.04.07 - 12:53am
Earlier today on IRC, someone mentioned a bug regarding the wording in the Breakpad crash reporting dialog… This made me realize it’s been quite a while since I’ve even *seen* that dialog pop up. So I poked around in my crash logs (~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Crash Reports/, on OS X), grabbed the timestamps, and battled with Open […]
10.21.07 - 05:20pm
A small amusement for the weekend:
I recently ran across the Whatever button extension. It’s a wry take on the way users have been conditioned to automatically click through any prompt that interrupts their workflow. Sometimes it’s just ignoring a useless popup, sometimes it’s ignoring something that has security implications.
The Whatever Button extension basically concedes defeat, […]
10.16.07 - 06:23pm
There’s a lot of work going on these days to improve Mozilla’s memory usage, and it’s a complicated issue with different facets. When discussing this with users, one thing that sometimes comes up is the difference between a process’s working set, and its total virtual memory size. To simplify grossly, the working set is often […]
08.15.07 - 05:07pm
On Monday I posted a Mozilla Labs blog entry discussing the APNG Edit extension I was releasing.
Just for fun, I thought I’d convert my favorite Firefox Flicks video to the APNG format….
The compression algorithms in APNG and AGIF are not really suited for straight conversions from video; doing so tends to result in large files […]
08.10.07 - 08:16pm
So, we’re here at Songbird’s sweet new digs, enjoying the party, when one of our interns leaned against a candle and caught on fire. Oops.
[Yes, I’m being a nerd and blogging this on my N800 from the party. Yay MicroB!]
