A few interesting blogs on Mozilla recently:
Call for Mozilla Switch and Part 2 cover 10 great reasons to switch to Mozilla. "It's not about Open Source, not better web standard support, Mozilla is just simply better."
Jason Lefkowitz at Just Well Mixed agrees with Oscar Merida at Oscarm.org and thinks that "stealth switching" is going to become more and more common.
Chris Curtis at Lethargic Ramblings likes the idea of a huge marketing campaign and thinks that something like Dave's "Luxury Web Experience" suggestion at mezzoblue could work.
79 Decibels sees a pretty serious spike in non-IE user agents and it looks like the Joel Spolsky's Firebird comments have had a pretty good ripple effect:
Trader Mike
RasterWe b
Jon Udell's weblog
Gregory Blake
Scripting News
Marcus Ramberg
FS Consulting's Weblog
Dave Seidel
Tom Pierce
Critical Section
DrunkAndRetired
Tim Aiello
StandBlog (google translation)
Heiko Hebig
Jack Baty
Jeff hume
KiYun Roe
e-mike's weblog
myfreakinname
zlog
Edward Bilodeau's weblog
Words of Waldman v2.0
Evil Fenius Chronicles
jra's thoughts
Micah Alpern
(and there were a dozen or so additional blogs that I bumpted into that linked or excerpted Joel but didn't add commentary.)
There are also a a half-dozen or so blog posts I've run across in the last couple of days discussing people trying out (and liking) Firebird. Maybe more ripple from Joel?
Temperantia R3
Kevin Donahue
Fazal Majid's low-intensity weblog
Synthetic Morpheme
Groc's bloggette
Considering...
Firebird even gets a mention at Dog News: weird, inspiring dog tales :-)
update: If you're looking for more on Mozilla Firebird then don't miss don't miss David Tenser's amazing Firebird Help site, Ben Goodger's great Reasons to switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser doc and Minh Truong's 10 incredible Mozilla Firebird features (and how to use them) page.
Posted by asa at June 3, 2003 06:49 PMWell, soon enough Firebird will be Mozilla Browser and then mass media can write about it.
Posted by: alanjstr on June 3, 2003 07:04 PMYou keep fishing those links out for me Asa; this is about the 3rd post I've ran through *all* of your links and linked to extensions and workarounds for any negative thoughts a blogger might have had.
On one hand, I'm being a good comunity member by promoting the software that I like. On the other, I feel like such a huge fanboy. =(
Posted by: Mike Goodspeed on June 3, 2003 08:21 PMYeah, I feel like such a zealot whenever I tell my friends to use Firebird :s I got so annoyed at how IE stupidly treats my perfectly valid XHTML and CSS that I eventually just gave up on writing hacks and workarounds. Does that make me a bad person?
Posted by: Jules on June 3, 2003 09:18 PMSee also the separate discussion board at Scot Finnie's forums
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/forums/index.php?s=aa647108867a282f64a84d647691f30a&act=SF&f=4
Excellent news, the buzz about Firebird is clearly spreading. However it raises an interesting point - if user numbers rise before Moz Devs move to Firebird thenwe are going to see a lot of complaints about the one or two silly problems that still exist in FB (autocomplete bug for example).
That's going to be very bad for the Browser's reputation.
Posted by: Colin Ramsay on June 4, 2003 02:36 AMI can't believe someone found my blog one month into it's existence even if my last name is a little mangled. This is a great list of Firebird related links to use to spread the buzz. Looks like its time to "upgrade" dad's computer again.
Posted by: Oscar Merida on June 4, 2003 07:44 AMAny chance I can convince you to add an ID="asa" to your body tag so that I can be more specific when I override your css?
Posted by: alanjstr on June 4, 2003 08:19 AMAnybody know of a fix for the Rich Text Editor problem? I've noticed that the buttons (bold, italicize...) don't appear in Yahoo Mail's editor, nor in Movable Type's 'enter new post' text editor.
Posted by: Michael Seneadza on June 4, 2003 09:08 AMWhat would be really nice is if Google had a link on its front page recommending Firebird/Mozilla e.g. "Using a web browser (like Internet Explorer) that doesn't conform to the latest standards? Upgrade to a browser like Mozilla", it would drive up downloads a lot more than Joel's blog but alas, is almost infinitely less likely.
Posted by: Jon on June 4, 2003 09:14 AM"Anybody know of a fix for the Rich Text Editor problem? I've noticed that the buttons (bold, italicize...) don't appear in Yahoo Mail's editor, nor in Movable Type's 'enter new post' text editor."
Rich Text Editing in Movable Type
http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/rich_text_editing_in_movable_type.html
P.S. This is the kind of thing I go around to other blogs and do.
Posted by: Mike Goodspeed on June 4, 2003 09:51 AMThanks Mike, I'll try that out. Hopefully they'll get this kind of thing built in. The average user won't want to do this kind of tweaking.
Posted by: Michael Seneadza on June 4, 2003 10:37 AMOscar, sorry about the typo in your name. It should be fixed now, unless I messed it up in some new and different way ;-)
--Asa
Posted by: Asa on June 4, 2003 12:22 PMI'm not ready to replace my current version of Mozilla with Firebird yet, but I can see that it has potential. The Mac OS X version definately is nowhere near the beta stage (IMO). I couldn't use the bookmarks buttons. =(
Posted by: Ryan on June 4, 2003 04:07 PMI downloaded Firebird two days ago and will install asap... using Opera, IE6, Slimbrowser. I'm hoping Firebird is as good as everyone says it is. (Opera is good but it's also driving me nuts... sigh)
but then, I'm a dog walker, not a programmer.
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