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In my opinion, one of the coolest features of Firefox 3 is full page zoom.  From the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the [...]

What have I (we) been doing lately?
We tried to streamline the discovery/review process a bit.  With the new evangelism team, I will be working very closely with colleagues like Asa, Mike Shaver, mfinkle, jresig, sheppy, and dria.  (What an honor!)  And, as a part of this new team, I am able to triage requests and [...]

My Mozilla 24 Wrap

Returned from Tokyo yesterday after a whirlwind tour… Alex Polvi and I pulled some “almost-all-nighters” working on fun projects and participating in Mozilla 24.
To see all the moving parts of Mozilla 24 happening at once, and to witness the amazing teams in Japan, Thailand, Paris, and Stanford all working tirelessly to pull off this [...]

Have you checked it out? In a prior post, I blogged about Mozilla 24 and all the things you can do to participate. For my part of the conference, I’ve helped plan an hour-and-a-half session about accessibility efforts at Mozilla. Here is the short description:

A discussion on new accessibility features in Firefox [...]

In the past two weeks, I haven’t blogged a thing. It’s been a time for a slight realignment of teams, and I now am a part of the newly-formed Mozilla Evangelism team. I’ll bringing all that I have been doing with Community Giving to a great team where we all will work on [...]

Chofmann and I made our last stop in Mumbai, arriving on Friday, July 20, and leaving yesterday at 12:20 AM (India time, July 23.)
Several contributors from the ILUG-BOM group assembled for the final event of our Indian Tour. It was held at the Homi Bhabha center, TIFR and many thanks to Dr. Nagarjuna G. [...]

Ken Saunders (see A Few All-stars) and Michael Buckley redesigned the Access Firefox site.  Have a look.  Great work, guys!

Access Firefox

Access Firefox is another great community project started by Ken Saunders. The project presents and showcases the accessibility tools and features that are available for Firefox. Ken is creating a great resource for internet users who are legally blind or suffer from other disabilities. We decided to help support Ken by [...]