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 [...]
01.16.08 - 01:18am
These are great!
The travelling salesman visits Donald E. Knuth first.
Donald E. Knuth writes his books in constant time. The constant is very big.
(…more…)
First Chuck, then Bruce, and now Don? Who’s next? :-)
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 [...]
10.15.07 - 04:51pm
Solaris has recently gained some attention from Mozilla developers, largely due to the availability of DTrace. Rob Sayre, in particular, has recently been putting it to good use tackling performance and memory problems.
I just reinstalled the latest release, Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07, and helped update the Solaris Build Prerequisites page on DevMo. I’ve used [...]
09.28.07 - 07:59pm
I don’t even remember the last time I managed to install a unix and *not* have some sort of X problem. Well… A few years ago I painlessly installed Solaris on a Sun desktop with a Sun video card and a Sun monitor, but I suppose that doesn’t really count.
Usually the X install just fails [...]
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 [...]
