07 Apr 2008
There has been an ongoing benchmark battle between Webkit/KHTML, Firefox, and Opera. The Firefox devs, after seeing their browser lose (anyone surprised by that?), suggest “turn off extensions.” Well, yes, that ends up improving performance. But the point is, they forked from and then shot in the back the Mozilla Suite/Seamonkey, which implemented tons of [...]
27 Feb 2008
Apologies for the lack of posting (for the 2.2 peole who care, and the 1 person who noticed). I woke up to my laptop’s hard drive going click-click. It is still ‘functional’ and I have all the important data off of it. However, after having used the same Debian install for almost 8 years, I [...]
13 Dec 2007
Mozilla to addon developers: work on Firefox 3 compatibility
Mozilla wants addon developers to start updating their themes and extensions for Firefox 3. Lack of addon compatibility is a frequent complaint immediately following major Firefox updates because many users depend on the additional functionality that they get from third-party components.
While still holding off on the Firefox [...]
11 Dec 2007
No, not the pagan turned christian plastic eggs of theophagism, or whatever their relation to modern religious mythology is. Easter eggs in software are little gems of humor or entertainment typically found in what would otherwise be a monolithic, boring application. I know several in mozilla suite/seamonkey/iceape/firefox/iceweasel/phoenix/firebird/whatever/you/want/to/call/it. There is the classic about:mozilla (classic in the [...]