29 Jan 2008

Browser Usage

I’ve long thought that the percentage of visits going to Firefox in my site statistics were oddly high. It turns out it’s pretty much in line with numbers put out by both Bob Sutor and Joe Gregorio

tomayko.com   09:02

22 Jan 2008

IE8 To Make Tender Chickens

“The MIT guy did not like this solution because it was not the right thing.”

tomayko.com   14:31

05 Mar 2005

Netscape 8 - Setting the browser back two years

How to not understand the value of a web browser.

tomayko.com   02:37

22 Nov 2004

The factors that led them to choose IE..

Microsoft is so completely out of touch with reality it hurts.

tomayko.com   23:09

11 Nov 2003

tomayko.com   19:14

09 Nov 2003

tomayko.com   17:33

08 Nov 2003

tomayko.com   23:32

03 Aug 2008

Why Ogg Matters

Interesting. This is the first time I’ve seen mention of Firefox shipping with Ogg Vorbis and Theora built-in. That could definitely change the horrible pace of adoption we’ve seen thus for.

weblogs.mozillazine.org   16:55

22 Jun 2008

beatnikpad.com   17:51

08 Mar 2008

Mozilla Bug 417302 – about:robots

“In the spirit of the Firefox 3 firstrun pages, I would like to permanently commemorate the noble deeds of the robot community in their fight for an open web.”

bugzilla.mozilla.org   23:09

20 Feb 2008

Firefox 3 nightly builds shipping w/ FreeBSD's malloc(3) implementation

“The reason we are integrating our own allocator is that we’ve found jemalloc to be better than all the default allocators of our three main platforms (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux)”

ventnorsblog.blogspot.com   05:30

11 Feb 2008

Tab Control

Lightweight Firefox extension that causes new tabs to open to the right of the current tab. Works with Firefox 3.0 betas and nightlies with extension compatibility checking disabled.

addons.mozilla.org   16:39

02 Feb 2008

Modern Firefox Theme That Looks Like Netscape 3.0 Running On Windows 3.1

This is pretty funny. Even the options dialogs are themed.

addons.mozilla.org   17:15

16 Dec 2007

moz-snapshooter.rb

Like khtml2png but using the gtkmozembed Ruby extension library (which I haven’t been able to build yet).

mirko.lilik.it   18:16

25 Oct 2007

Prism

Mozilla Labs finally puts some lipstick on WebRunner. This is extremely important to me.

labs.mozilla.com   14:43

05 Oct 2007

NoSquint: Firefox Extension

NoSquint remembers your text zoom level per site, so you will only need to adjust text size once for each site that uses text that is too small for your eyes.

urandom.ca   04:36

21 Jul 2007

bugzilla.mozilla.org   01:46

01 Feb 2007

Implement getElementsByClassName [bugzilla.mozilla.org]

Awesome. Robert Sayre just checked in his document.getElementsByClassName implementation to mozilla trunk.

bugzilla.mozilla.org   06:08

28 Feb 2006

kb.mozillazine.org   11:54

14 Apr 2005

Greasemonkey FUD

Hi, we’re Forrester Research, a division of Microsoft. — I really didn’t expect Firefox to get this much FUD thrown at it.

simon.incutio.com   01:56

06 Apr 2005

kb.mozillazine.org   08:04

27 Mar 2005

Conkeror - Emacs mode for Firefox

Make firefox act like Emacs. How cool is that?

conkeror.mozdev.org   05:42

04 Mar 2005

NS8, part 1: I need closure

Blake Ross tearing into Netscape/AOL on Netscape 8. Can’t wait for part 2.

blakeross.com   20:34

11 Feb 2005

Gartner urges caution before downloading Firefox

Redefining the concept of making sense: “some of the factors that make Firefox more appealing than Internet Explorer are likely to go away as the browser gets to be more popular”

computerworld.com   09:35

25 Jan 2005

mozillazine.org   06:44

The Firefox Religion

Blake Ross talks about what drove every Firefox design decision: simplicity.

blakeross.com   03:06

16 Dec 2004

10,000 Firefox enthusiasts make history

My name will be in the NY Times tomorrow

spreadfirefox.com   02:35

19 Nov 2004

Emacs Keybindings for Firefox

This is one of the last things I’ve been waiting for before switching from Safari. Now if only the scrollwheel worked a little nicer and I could get a decent proxy-configuration plugin…

kb.mozillazine.org   01:55

17 Nov 2004

Mozilla's Firefox key to Free Culture

Firefox as “gateway drug” to Free Culture for the masses.

nyunews.com   16:41

10 Nov 2004

Why I Like Windows

IE team on Firefox 1.0 release. The comments have me rolling on the floor. I can’t believe microsoft is letting these guys keep comments on.

blogs.msdn.com   14:49

08 Nov 2004

G4 Optimized Firefox builds..

Haven’t tried yet but these optimized builds are rumoured to blow the doors off the standard distribution.

forums.mozillazine.org   03:28

30 Oct 2004

stopie.com

“Help stop Internet Explorer, the world’s most popular and worst internet browser.”

stopie.com   23:15

19 Oct 2004

spreadfirefox.com   06:05

12 Oct 2004

Can a resurrected Netscape compete with IE?

No. Netscape as a brand/browser is irrelevant. Anyone with a cluestick care to drop by cnet and whap those monkeys around a bit? Some decent history here though.

news.com.com   14:53

buffalonews.com   02:37

09 Oct 2004

The Browser Wars Are Back?

yes. they are. IE is the new Netscape 4.7.

slashdot.org   03:30

26 Sep 2004

delicious.mozdev.org   06:34

23 Sep 2004

The Google Browser, Reloaded

Some more speculation about a Google Browser.

deftone.com   01:31

13 Aug 2004

In Search of a Browser That Banishes Clutter

New York Times talking about people moving away from IE. It may finally be happening…

nytimes.com   01:30

10 Aug 2004

mozillazine.org   16:08

20 Jul 2004

FirefoxExtensionHowTo

Wiki rockin with info on Firefox Extension development

wikalong.phunnel.org   22:02

CensorZilla

(hold belly).. hardy har har har..

jwz.org   21:58