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Captive Advertising is not okay
3 October 2007As I settled into my airplane seat early Monday morning I began to catch up on my sleep - that is until I was awakened to the blaring ads for the US Airways credit card, Hilton Hotels, Sheraton resort, etc. on the overhead speakers. I’m ok with my tray table and newspapers having ads. [...]
Expanding our developer presence in Europe
23 August 2007Every time I visit Europe I’m amazed at the enthusiasm for Mozilla and the strength of the technical talent. I heard loud and clear at the Paris developer day that everyone wants a strong base of support for developers in Europe..
Towards that end I’m visiting Copenhagen, Denmark and Bergen, Norway next week to explore [...]
Paris Developer Day
24 June 2007Congratulations to Tristan, Anne-Julie, and Mike Shaver for putting on an absolutely fantastic Developer Day here in Paris. The venue held about 80 people and it was filled to capacity for most of the day. Shaver kicked us off with his usual good humor. Neil Deakin followed-up with [...]
Heading back from China
31 May 2007Tuesday Li Gong and I spent most of the day catching up on Mozilla and brainstorming about the future of Mozilla China. Li’s clearly great and we are rather fortunate to have him at Mozilla. Afterwards I made it to Tiananmen Square just in time to see the flag lowering ceremony [...]
In Beijing this week
28 May 2007Today I’m spending the day catching up with Li Gong . Tomorrow Johnny joins us to spend the day at Sun China. On Thursday I’ll be speaking at the Google Worldwide Developer Day. If you are in the area please be sure to come by and say hi!
The importance of updates
18 May 2007Secunia just released an interesting study on the update rates of various applications. When it came to browsers they said:
“Comparing browsers and looking at Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer, we found out that Firefox 2 is the least vulnerable, as only 5.19% of all Firefox 2 installations miss security updates, whereas 11.96% of all [...]
Mozilla Platform
16 May 2007There has been a great discussion going on with lots of thoughts and clarification about XULRunner and the “Mozilla Platform.”
I believe part of the confusion here is a lack of a clear definition of “Mozilla Platform” and shared understanding what’s being worked on. We got together a good bunch of the platform [...]
Heading of to Microsoft Mix07 next week
27 April 2007I’m part of a panel discussion on Open Source, the Web, Interoperability and Microsoft. I’d link directly to the session, but amusingly the Mix07 website doesn’t seem to want to use anchors. Oh well.
So - here’s the question for you - as part of the Mozilla community what would you like discussed here?
More developer videos coming
17 April 2007We started taping 1 hour architecture overviews from Mozilla developers late last year. You can look at the first two here.
The schedule for upcoming recordings is here. Add your name if you would like to do one or add a comment if there are others you’d like to see!
Oldest Bug Fixed in FF2
25 March 2007In my presentation at FOSDEM I claimed that bug 21344 was the oldest fixed. Robert Sayre informed me that in fact bug 15090 was the oldest fixed. I missed it because it was duped and I was excluding dupes in my search. The original bug was > 7 years old when [...]