01.04.09 - 04:20pm
Gerv just posted about the number of random Wikipedia pages in his browser history. Hmm, sounds like a meme in the making!
Back in November, Mardak posted some code to pull data out of Places… I’ve modified it to create a list of 10 random Wikipedia links from your history (along with the total). Looks like [...]
09.23.08 - 10:22pm
Wow. Somehow I missed this funky little beat back from the FF3 release.
Who knew people were making music about Firefox?
And then I learned about:robots, about about:robots
About:robots (the one with the colon in between)
About:robots, about about:robots
About:robots
07.24.08 - 05:47pm
I set up a Maemo build environment not too long ago, so that I could follow along with the Fennec work. I was curious to see what other Mozilla stuff I could get working for my N810…
That’s the current trunk version of Thunderbird (aka Shredder). I had to jump through a few hoops to build [...]
05.21.08 - 08:51pm
Short and sweet: Firebug 1.2 Beta 1 is now available. Go get it! (Yes, now! Go go go!)
There have been a ton of changes under the hood, and it would be very helpful if folks could give it a spin with Firefox 3 RC1. Feedback to the Firebug discussion group and bug tracker would be [...]
05.19.08 - 08:03am
This is a nice and simple twist on the usual tagcloud: show people a popular brand/logo, and let them tag it. I bet there are market research companies that sell such data for $lots, now it’s something anyone can build (if you’re clever enough to think of it).
Here’s one of the results for Firefox:
awesome
Heh. Am [...]
05.16.08 - 11:17pm
Today we launched the first Release Candidate of Firefox 3 (yay!). 7 days from now, NASA will be landing a spacecraft on Mars. I thought it might be interesting to compare the two…
The browser
The spacecraft
Original name:
Phoenix
Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander
Current name:
Firefox
Phoenix
Mission:
Make kick-ass software, promote the open web
Study water, soil, weather at northern polar region of Mars
Cost:
Free!
$420 [...]
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 [...]
