Archive for the ‘Mozilla’ Category

Foxfire

Friday, April 1st, 2005

There’s been a bit of talking about the name “Foxfire” recently, and how people are confusing it and “Firefox”. So out of curiosity, I googled it.

Firefox was not in the top 100 results.

So I figured I should do my part to remedy this: Foxfire.

Stumbleupon

Friday, March 25th, 2005

I just installed StumbleUpon again; I had it probably about a year and a half ago. I went through all my interests, options, etc, and then hit Stumble! My first result?

mozilla.org

Update: My tally now is mozilla.org, some illusions page (relatively interesting), Google Zeitgeist, and Slashdot. That’s 3/4 that I know of, including 2/4 that I know well. I thought this was supposed to help find new sites…

Update 2: So of the first 16 sites, 6 I know well, 4 I know of, one I know of and usually avoid, and only 5 were new. I’m wondering how effective this is going to be…

One Week

Friday, March 25th, 2005

According to A Year of Bugs, Internet Explorer had only one week in 2004 when it had no unpatched remote code execution bugs. This should help any evangelism you’re doing…

Zipped Builds

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

Zach Lipton says it perfectly.

Mozilla reflow changes

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

Anyone who pays attention to the netscape.public.mozilla.layout newsgroup will know that David Baron is working on a new way of doing reflow in Mozilla. It aims for (to quote him)

  • simplification of code
  • fixing incremental reflow (”{inc}”) bugs
  • allowing better integration of nsIBox and nsIFrame layout
  • allowing easier implementation of new features like ‘inline-block’

It’s nowhere near done (”nowhere near compiling” in his words), but this will be nice to have!


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