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November 24, 2004
Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 5, aka Really Fast!
Help test the extensive Mozilla changes by checking out Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 5. It is noticeably faster than Mozilla 1.7 in startup and rendering of pages. We just need to have people test their favourite websites in case we have any regressions!
Posted by doron at 6:27 PM | Comments (4)
November 21, 2004
OneStat.com - Mozilla Share is 7.35%, Most Used Mozilla Browser is Firefox 0.1
How the hell does Firefox 0.1 have so much marketshare compared to Mozilla 1.x and Firefox 1.0? More likely they mean the Preview release, called 0.10.
One day web statistics will make sense.
Posted by doron at 7:18 PM | Comments (9)
November 11, 2004
AOL - Killer Of Innovators
First Compuserve (now an ISP offered to AOL users who want to leave at a huge discount), then Netscape (now an ISP) and now Nullsoft. Ironically, Nullsoft was reminding me of Netscape - a hyped but crappy release (Winamp 3) and a last ditch jumping over a release number (Winamp 5 vs NS6).
Is Mapquest next?
Posted by doron at 6:12 AM | Comments (2)
November 9, 2004
Livemarking your GMail Inbox
Go to Bookmarks, Manage Bookmarks. Go to File -> New Live Bookmark, and for the feed url enter:
https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom
The username:password idea came from Forever Geek.
Posted by doron at 12:40 PM | Comments (6)
Shameless Plug: Bid on Rare Green Mozilla stuffed Animal (Plush)
Hopefully means I can get a raise :)
Posted by doron at 9:53 AM | Comments (3)
It Shipped! And Gmail Notifier Makes Eweek's Extensions Review Article!
Halo 2! Actually, Everquest 2! Oh wait, no, Firefox 1.0.
Hopefully the plugin finder service code will hold up. Time to nominate outstanding fixes for 1.0.x.
Firefox 1.0 has been an interesting ride. Lets see if it makes any difference. Gecko has matured quite nicely.
And Eweek reviewes ten extensions, including my Gmail Notifier.
Now for a fun day with mozilla.org down.
Posted by doron at 6:29 AM | Comments (3)
November 8, 2004
CNet - Where Facts Don't Matter
Festa's latest Mozilla article has soo many errors its not funny. Especially since its all repeating previous article's text.
Posted by doron at 7:10 PM | Comments (4)
Improved Navigation is a Benefit, Tabbed Browsing is A Feature
Rant of the day:
Stop calling tabbed browsing a benefit, rather say that Mozilla products offer improved navigation of the web - the main problem I have seen with novice users is navigating the web. Mozilla has a search button right next to the urlbar, and Firefox has its own seperate search bar. Tabbed browsing is another big navigation helper.
Or to put it simply: who other than advanced users know what "tabs" are?
Posted by doron at 4:38 PM | Comments (5)
November 3, 2004
Gnome Firefox Theme
Gnome Firefox Theme - if you always wanted Firefox to look more gnomy.
Posted by doron at 5:58 PM | Comments (2)
Bush Uses Firefox
Crackcity, November 3rd
As reported on all major networks last night, Bush used Firefox to check the latest election results. He uses several Firefox extensions, including TurdSomething, WeatherTurd, FactsBlock and TerroristStopper.
Can we please remove blog syndication from mozilla.org? It is silly to have useless political discussions linked to from the main page.
Posted by doron at 7:56 AM | Comments (12)
November 2, 2004
Douche or Turd Sandwich?
Who will win? I want IBM stock to hit 100!
Posted by doron at 6:08 AM | Comments (3)
November 1, 2004
Mozilla, Firefox Split 6% Marketshare
CNet has an article with Websidestory stats.
Websidestory is a popular web stat program, so it probably represents traffic from medium and smaller sites. According to it, Mozilla and Firefox split 6% evenly. I am guessing that most of the Mozilla marketshare is due to Netscape 7.x.
In Mozilla news, a9, Amazon's search devision, which has several ex-mozilla hackers on staff from Netscape, released a Firefox version of their toolbar. A9's advanced search features rock (search history!), and I like how their toolbar allows you to go forward/back in the search results without having to go back to the result list. And you get a pie/2 discount at amazon.com if you use a9 :)
Posted by doron at 6:00 PM | Comments (6)