Category Archives: Firefox

World’s Cutest Animal

Today the Houston Zoo is debuting the “World’s Cutest Animal“. It’s a red panda, also known as a Firefox. Everybody say “awwwwww!”

Posted in Firefox, Fuzzy Friends, PlanetMozilla | 4 Comments

Is the tree green, mobile edition.

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, … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, PlanetMozilla | 3 Comments

Delicious Personas

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla Labs, PlanetMozilla | 3 Comments

Is the tree green?

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, PlanetMozilla | 12 Comments

Infoholicismeme

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, PlanetMozilla | 5 Comments

About about:robots

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

Posted in Firefox, PlanetMozilla | 2 Comments

Thunderbird on Maemo

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, PlanetMozilla | 11 Comments

Firebug for Firefox 3

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, PlanetMozilla | Comments Off

AWESOME

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, PlanetMozilla | 1 Comment

Launching and landing

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, PlanetMozilla, Technology | 4 Comments