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!]
07.19.07 - 03:03pm
Almost two months ago, the QA folks put out a call to help reduce the unwieldy number of “unconfirmed” bugs reported against Firefox. I was curious about how things are going, and was stunned to see the progress to date:
Roughly 2000 fewer bugs, and that’s in addition to however many have been filed since then. [...]
07.18.07 - 12:10pm
Yesterday at GUADEC, Nokia announced and released a Mozilla-based web browser for the N800. Combined with the Flash 9 update in the most recent firmware, this makes for a very capable handheld device. Yay!
Initial Impressions:
Considering that this is a pre-beta application built on the pre-beta Mozilla 1.9 trunk (where Firefox 3 work is also ongoing), [...]
06.22.07 - 03:05pm
(@ Google Video)
I’ve had this video bookmarked for a long time, and finally decided to post it after seeing Grey’s post from earlier today. Baby red pandas! [Also known as the "Fire Fox"] Everyone go “Awwww!” in 3… 2… 1… Awwww!
The video comes from the Chiba Zoological Park, and has some subtitles in Japanese. But [...]
06.13.07 - 03:38pm
Long long ago, when I was first learning how to compile Mozilla from source, through some magical process I ended up with a .mozconfig file which worked. Maybe I copied it from DevMo, or maybe someone gave me their copy. I really don’t remember!
Anyway, now that the build process is ever-so-slightly more familiar to me, [...]
06.11.07 - 04:24pm
A few months ago I noticed that the video presentations on DevMo were rather unwieldy to watch… A 280 MB Quicktime download doesn’t exactly offer immediate gratification! So, I uploaded all the videos on that page to video.google.com, and today *finally* got around to editing the DevMo page to link to them. Share and [...]
06.06.07 - 04:03pm
I read Gerv’s post from earlier today (”Choice considered harmful”), as well as the predictable replies to it. It’s a rich topic to debate, but one thought that particularly strikes me is that with computers running billions of instruction per seconds (and increasing), software (un?)naturally grows in size and complexity to keep those CPUs warm [...]
