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Blogzilla
Blogzilla is a weblog about Mozilla. The site will cover news, tips, info, links, and hacks related to the Mozilla project. (http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/)
IE7 RSS icon to use Firefox RSS icon
The Microsoft Team RSS Blog announced today that to encourage consistency between browsers, IE7 will be using the Firefox RSS icon to epresent RSS and RSS-related features.
December 14, 2005 11:48 PM
FirefoxView: 'View This Page in Firefox' Extension for IE
IE View is a useful extension for web developers that launches IE and lets you view what the page looks like in IE.
FirefoxView is the opposite of IE View, it lets you complete the round trip and view what a page looks like in Firefox from IE.
Kind of a strange extension install; it's an extension you install in Firefox, which installs "View This Page in Firefox" item to the context menu in IE. Windows only, and doesn't work with Norton Antivirus 2004 with script blocking enabled.
December 7, 2005 06:01 PM
View Source Choice
In response to an entry discussing view source in Firefox, Brian King created the View Source Choice extension with the exact feature we were looking for. The ability to:
[r]edirect View Source to current window (current default in Firefox), new tab, or new window.
Thanks Brian — I've installed the extension, and it works great! The planned ability to override the view source keyboard shortcut already has me anticipating version 0.2.
December 4, 2005 05:22 AM
Firefox Flicks
As part of the community marketing for Firefox 1.5, Mozilla Firefox Flicks has launched with two new campaigns, Testimonials and Ad Contest. If you're the type, record a testimonial of yourself talking Firefox and you can win Amazon.com gift certificates. Me, I don't even like having my picture taken. Although it would be pretty funny if a Pornzilla fan recorded a testimonial.
The ad contest is for those familiar with Final Cut Pro to create a 30s commercial for Firefox.
December 2, 2005 06:06 PM
View Source Bug Fixed and a Tip
Mozilla has, without a doubt, raised the bar with Firefox 1.5. Amongst the countless enhancements and bug fixes, though, I found something to make particular mention of, that of view source and bug 262915.
Before, the view-source pseudo protocol (i.e. accessing view source from the location bar instead of by shortcut) would open a new browser window. For a single-window/tab user like myself, this bug was annoying — to say the least. But now with that particular bug fixed, page source can r
December 1, 2005 04:52 AM
Google Jobs: Firefox Engineer
Google Jobs: Software Engineer, Firefox - Mountain View
Google is looking for software engineers to join us in our collaborative development efforts with the Mozilla Foundation on the Firefox browser.
Most likely you'd be working along side Ben Goodger and Brian Ryner. And the rest of the time you'll be working on Google Browser? hmmm? hmmm!
December 1, 2005 01:13 AM
Canvas Demos
New in Firefox 1.5 is support of the <canvas> tag, which is a new HTML element that can be used to draw graphics using JavaScript. It's not SVG, even though it overlaps functionality with SVG.
Rafael Robayna has created a simple painter demo. A little more detailed is the first-person shooter demonstration.
While both are a little slow and not so smooth, it's still cool to see something like this is possible.
More on <canvas> tag:
Mozilla Developer entry for Canvas
Mozilla Wiki
November 30, 2005 07:10 PM
Return
After a long, dormant hiatus, Blogzilla is back. Blogging is hard, and interests wane, but Firefox has been on a roll as of late, and interests have been renewed.
Oh, and also, we've sold out:
In real news, the Mozilla site has been redesigned and is now at www.mozilla.com and Firefox 1.5 is now out.
November 30, 2005 09:47 AM
Feed Your Reader
This Google search led to this post from Nick Bradbury, which led to this extension for Firefox: Feed Your Reader. With proper link credit given, let's carry on to why this find might be important to you (after a short background explanation).
Firefox's Live Bookmarks feature serves as an elegant introduction to feed aggregation for the novice user. And its simplicity largely reduces the learning curve for syndicated content.
This said, I'm not an average user when it comes to Atom, RSS, etc. I'
July 3, 2005 07:15 AM
Webmail Access for Mozilla Thunderbird
Finally, an extension to Mozilla Thunderbird which allows access to webmail! (One of the oft-most requested feature enhancements of the email client. Hooray for extensibility!)
The Web-Mail extension creates a platform which other extensions use to integrate web based email accounts into Mozilla Thunderbird. POP is the only protocol supported, this means Thunderbird can only download emails.
Currently supported via extensions: Hotmail (and MSN), Yahoo and Lycos. A step-by-step setup guide is ava
April 11, 2005 01:49 AM
Universities Advocating Mozilla Online
While navigating to a class website, I found a subtle jab at Internet Explorer followed by Firefox advocacy:
Some Windows-Internet Explorer users continue to report sporadic problems when logging in to courses.utexas.edu. One symptom is that clicking the "Login" button on the next page does not do anything.
Reports indicate that using a different browser such as Firefox seems to help, as does reloading [the] /webapps/login page. Please contact the ITS Help Desk for more assistance.
Know of other
December 9, 2004 06:46 AM
Firefoxy
Making Firefox widgets Apple-icious just got easier, thanks to Amake. His utility, Firefoxy, applies Kevin Gerich's Pretty Widgets using drag-and-drop.
Firefoxy 1.1 can be downloaded at MacUpdate. Below are the "couldn't-be-any-easier" instructions (to be followed after install):
Drag Firefox onto Firefoxy. To revert to the old widgets, drag Firefox onto Firefoxy again. Or, just open the app and it will prompt you to locate Firefox.
If you use OS X nightlies and find yourself re-applying Kevin's
November 14, 2004 04:40 PM
Suppress New Windows Revisited
If you're like me, then you hate it when people use target="_blank". If you've installed Firefox 1.0 and are wondering why the suppress new windows advanced pref no longer works, it's because it's been overridden by a new advanced pref.
To turn it on, go to about:config and set "browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs" to true. Or you can add user_pref("browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs", true); to your user.js file.
Then in Tools | Options | Advanced | Tab browsing, a new opti
November 12, 2004 09:21 PM
Firefox 1.0 and You
Now that Firefox 1.0 has been released, what enhancements, bug-fixes or general improvements to the browser have made surfing better for you? My most recent "how did I ever live without this?" feature:
The ability to configure where links from other applications are opened in Firefox. This option can be accessed via Preferences: Advanced: Tabbed Browsing. I've got Firefox set to open links in "a new tab in the most recent window."
November 10, 2004 08:03 PM
Firefox 1.0
Firefox 1.0 is finally here. For those who have been following it's progress, it's been a long time coming. But your work is not done yet. Because it is now safe to recommend Firefox to non-geeks. Please do so. They need your help. Think of the children.
The Mozilla servers are currently getting hammered, but you can grab the installer in a few seconds using the torrents:
Win 32 Firefox 1.0 Torrent
Linux i686 Firefox 1.0 Torrent
When you live on the west coast and stroll on into work
November 9, 2004 06:02 PM
Thunderbird News & Blogs Virtual Memory Leak
I really like the News & Blogs RSS aggregation feature in Thunderbird. Particularly how it loads the webpage instead of just the article summary. However, I think there may be a virtual memory leak. I have about 30 feeds that check for updates every 60 minutes. If I leave Thunderbird running for a few days, particularly over the weekend, the memory and virtual memory usage keeps adding up:
I've even had a few "Out of Virtual Memory" Windows errors. I've had this error in Thunderbird
October 26, 2004 05:42 PM
New Thunderbird Feature: Message Grouping
The Outlook-ification of Thunderbird continues with Bug 263255 - Improve thread pane UI for message grouping in for 0.9. Here's a screenshot from the bug:
I don't mind since I liked that feature in Outlook. I'm not sure if it's in the nightly builds yet though since I can't find where to turn it on. Maybe it hasn't been turned on yet.
October 21, 2004 06:12 PM
Firefox and Rendering Slashdot
I've been getting this error viewing various pages at Slashdot with Firefox on and off since about version 0.8.
Hitting refresh renders the page properly though. Is this an issue with Firefox or with Slashdot's ancient markup?
October 20, 2004 08:44 PM
FTP client for Firefox: fireFTP
I get asked about once a week what's a good free FTP client. Now I can point them to fireFTP, a plugin that gives you an FTP client in Firefox.
October 19, 2004 03:17 AM
Gmail-like Labels Coming to Thunderbird
Bug 261199 - UI for defining and editing virtual folders details how Thunderbird developers are working on implementing Gmail-like labels for 0.9. Basically you enter a few search terms and a folder to search on and the results appear in a folder.
Here's a screenshot.
October 18, 2004 05:51 PM
Get Google Desktop to Support Firefox
Google recently released Google Desktop (for Windows users), as you are probably already aware. Google Desktop is a "desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, computer files, chats, and the web pages you've viewed."
Great!
The hang-up: the program searches web data — e.g. cached pages and bookmarks — in only one browser, Internet Explorer.
Where you come in: Google has provided a feature request form and specifically the option to request support for
October 15, 2004 10:54 PM
Google Browser Revolutions
BBC NEWS: Rumours surround Google browser
"Google-watcher and web-designer Jason Kottke said Google's interest in Mozilla was significant for another reason. He said the work that Google is doing on Gmail and Blogger show it is definitely interested in building software that more like familiar desktop programs rather than web applications. "
That's the gist of the XUL theory I posted about yesterday said in a non tech way.
eWeek: Is Google Ready to Browse?. I'm quoted on page 2:
Web develope
September 24, 2004 06:25 PM
The Google Browser, Reloaded
After my last post, the bugzilla issue Bug 226572 - Google branded Mozilla browser had also been marked as private. I no longer have a copy of it in my cache. Does anyone else have a cached copy of it? The ironic part is that if work offline actually worked, or if i were using IE, i'd still have the cache of the bug! But from what I remember, it was created in 2003, and in the URL field, it pointed to this page: Simon Willison: The Google Browser. It contained mostly the same kind of chatte
September 23, 2004 07:07 AM
Google Browser?
NY Post (they're never wrong!) is speculating that Google will launch a web browser based on the fact that they've hired a half-dozen key hires in recent weeks.
GBrowser sounds like a pretty lame name. Maybe it will like this.
Maybe it will be Mozilla based. There's even Bug 226572 - Google branded Mozilla browser with the last comment saying:
This is a duplicate of a private bug about working with Google. So closing this
one.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213362 ***
September 21, 2004 03:26 AM
Firefox 1.0 Guidebook
The Mozilla Store is now taking orders for a Firefox Guidebook. The cover sure looks nice. It ships Sep 30th. Looks like it's aimed towards novice users. Order it now for your mom!
Also available:
Firefox CD & Guidebook
Firefox & Thunderbird CD
Firefox Stickers
Mozilla 1.7 Guidebook
September 20, 2004 01:53 AM
Spread[ing] Firefox
That was quick. Spread Firefox surpasses 1,000,000 downloads of Mozilla Firefox — in less than 100 hours!
Blake Ross:
This is the fastest adoption rate we have ever experienced, higher than every previous Firefox release.
Here's to 2,000,000 and beyond.
September 19, 2004 05:21 AM
Apple-icious Widgets for Mozilla Firefox
Kevin Gerich, who brought Pinstripe to Mozilla Firefox on Mac OSX, is busy with brilliance, again. He's forging form widgets for Mozilla Firefox which'll appear more "presentable" — i.e. Apple-icious.
Ben Goodger has already offered to pull the elements in: "Figure out how to do this as a patch to the existing Mozilla code for Mac-only and do all the widgets, and we'll slurp this up."
September 19, 2004 05:07 AM
Dr. Evil: Goodger's on Fire!
From this article on Slashdot: Mozilla's Goodger on Firefox's Future comes this comment:
That title just cracks me up. "Mozilla's Goodger on Firefox's Future"
It just sounds DIRTY... If there was some guys Goodger in my future, I'd certainly try to do something about it...
Read the interview with the lead engineer of Firefox.
September 17, 2004 05:43 PM
Number Your Tabs
One of the keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs is to use CTRL 1-9 to switch between open tabs. To solve the problem of figuring out which tab is 6 and which is 7, Derek Featherstone as created an easy to use css hack that
numbers the tabs in Firefox
September 17, 2004 06:00 PM
Critical Mozilla Vulnerabilities Fixed in New Versions
A security advisory has been issued regarding buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird. However, the issue has been fixed in the recently released Mozilla 1.7.3, Firefox 1.0PR, Thunderbird 0.8.
Firefox 1.0PR now has a "software update" feature, so if any new vulneribilities are found and fixed, it will notify you about the update.
Coincidently, the Mozilla Foundation had a press release yesterday announcing that the first Security Bug Bounty payments were awarded.
September 15, 2004 08:36 PM
Firefox.com
The domain Firefox.com is now in the possession of the Mozilla Foundation. This thanks to Kevin Karpenske, the former owner of the domain, and his selfless contribution.
Make sure to visit Kevin's new site, Quailish.com, and voice your gratitude. We at Blogzilla would like to extend our praise to Kevin for his support of the Mozilla Firefox Project.
September 14, 2004 07:49 PM
The Unilateral Disarmament of Netscape
Slashdot has a Q&A with Rob Glaser, CEO of Real Networks about digital music. I liked this bit on why Real is only partially open source:
Apple apparently is focused on controlling an end-to-end secure music system, and Microsoft is focused on extending their proprietary Windows platform everywhere.
In light of this, we remain committed to enhancing interoperability and openness wherever it makes sense. However, what we haven't done is "unilaterally disarm" in the way that, for instance, N
September 14, 2004 07:36 PM
The Return of Alt. Stylesheet and Work Offline
The excellent mozilla blog redemption in a blog reports that Alternate stylesheet UI and Work Offline are now back in for Firefox 1.0. There was an furor when these features where uncerimoniously removed a few weeks ago.
The added "No Style" feature in the Stylsheet UI is useful for if you want to print a more readable version of sites that don't offer printer-friendly pages. The keyboard shortcut for it is CTRL-SHIFT-D. Try it on this page to see it with no styles!
Also, Firefox 1.0 Previe
September 13, 2004 09:43 PM
Browse By Name in Firefox
A new Google toolbar feature for IE allows you to enter keywords in the address bar. Jesse Ruderman has posted instructions on how to get "Browse By Name" in Firefox.
Related
Googlebar extension
Keyword Searching
September 10, 2004 06:56 PM
No More NT Auth on Intranets
A bug that has long been a pain in the ass to web developers and corporate intranet users alike, Bug 231529 - Optionally enable unprompted NTLM authentication has been fixed! That means that if you try accessing a local webserver, Mozilla won't prompt you for your NT username and password. This is a great fix, since it's issues like this that can prevent deployment of Firefox in corporate environments.
The fix will be in for 1.0, which should be out next month according to the Firefox 1.0 Roa
September 7, 2004 06:03 AM
Mozilla Browser Share
w3schools.com has Browser Statistics report showing Mozilla's browser share going from 8.2% in January to 14.9% in August. But then again, those statistics are "extracted from W3Schools' log-files".
Back in July, WebSideStory, a San Diego Web metrics company reported that Mozilla and Netscape's combined market share increased from 3.21% to 4.05%.
According to my server's log-files, Mozilla's market share is hovering at about 70%. Alert the press!
[via /.]
September 5, 2004 01:19 AM
Not All Sales and Marketing People Have a Black Heart Right?
One of the Google insiders to strike it rich with the IPO was Omid Kordestani. He's Google's senior vice president of worldwide sales and was formally an executive at Netscape Communications.
According to the article, Kordestani made $20,444,710 on the Google IPO and retains a stake worth $388,449,490.
Hey Omid, if you have any fondness left for what remains of your former company's browser, the Mozilla Foundation is accepting donations!
Related
Jul 2003 Time Magazine profile of Omid Kordes
September 2, 2004 06:48 PM
Mozilla.org Redesigns
Congratulations to Steven Garrity and the entire team at silverorange for their work on the newly redesigned mozilla.org. I think it's a big step forward from the last one, which always felt a little half-finished to me. But then again, that design was a big step forward from the old-old one.
The one GUI nit-picky issue I posted to the feedback topic forums was about the click-targets of the buttons in the nav bar.
If you hover over the right sides of the buttons, they become unclickable, ho
September 2, 2004 06:15 AM
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6a Released, with New Artwork
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6a, based on the Mozilla Mail 1.7 branch, was released yesterday. Incredible new artwork has landed on this build, courtesy of the Mozilla Visual Identity Team.
Curious of the creation process of the brand-new Thunderbird mail icon? Drop by Steven Garrity's post on the topic. Steven heads the team and intends to keep a running list of weblog entries from members of the group.
Also new to the nightly:
The about dialog has been reworked, with a recently redesigned Thunderbi
April 22, 2004 06:01 AM
FireFox Find In Page Now Searches Textboxes and Textareas
The excellent Burning Edge, which reports bug-fixes and continued regressions in Firefox daily builds (for all platforms) is reporting that the trunk build for April 16th contains searching within text forms. It is the one feature that IE has that I've longed for in Firefox, and finally it's here. That's one fewer reason to use IE, which I only use from time to time to see how the other 85% of the web is living.
April 17, 2004 12:39 AM
No New Window on Double Click 0.1
Currently, upon double-clicking a folder in the folder-pane in Mozilla Thunderbird a new instance of the email client opens. This feature — dare I say bug — has haunted me since my move from Outlook Express. (I've whined about the default behavior since July 2003.)
Great news — there is now a fix: The No New Window on Double Click extension (right-click to save). Instead of opening another window, the plugin will collapse or expand folders which have subfolders. If you have any
April 15, 2004 10:11 PM
Mozilla Source Code Swear Count
Henrik Gemal: "Inspired by the Linux kernel swear counts I did a quick search of the words in the Mozilla source code"
fuck in 23 files
shit in 45 files
crap in 259 files
bastard in 10 files
Some are dictionary references, and others are legit, as in the case of bitch:
#define morkCh_IsSevenBitChar(c)
March 25, 2004 11:22 PM
OSX Firefox Pinstripe Theme For Windows
Aladinsrl has released a Pinstripe lookalike called Modified Firefox Milk Theme for Windows users. It includes authentic "milk throbbers" from Safari. Here's screenshot and you can download it here (.RAR file).
Not sure how legal it is since its ripping images straight from Safari. An Aqua theme was created for Mozilla previously; however, apparently Apple asked the creator to pull it down, because of copyrights.
Also, the instructions to install the theme are kinda complicated. You need
March 22, 2004 11:20 PM
Download Manager is Giving You the Finger
Bug 233525 - Background of Download Manager looks like one-finger-salute Description: "When the download manager is on screen, the background image of that window (folder with arrow pointing down) looks like distractingly like a hand with middle finger up." Screenshot: It's only in the default theme, and it's been marked...
March 6, 2004 03:51 AM
The Import Tool Lands
The Burning Edge: 2004-03-03 Builds is reporting that a new Import tool just landed on the Firefox trunk and should be in tomorrow's nightly build. It will import options, bookmarks, history, and passwords from Mozilla 1.x, Netscape 4.x, or Opera. The new Import feature is one of the big features...
March 4, 2004 08:20 PM
Configuring Mozilla Thunderbird to Send Plain ASCII Text
Configuring Mail Clients to Send Plain ASCII Text is an exhaustive primer about why sending e-mail as HTML is wrong, something we've posted about before. The overview lists how to configure mail clients to send in plain-text, including instructions for several old versions of Mozilla and Netscape are listed. However,...
February 17, 2004 06:30 AM
A Look at Some Windows Source Code
Today Microsoft admitted that "portions of the Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 source code were illegally made available on the Internet." Here's a snippet: if (default_browser() != IE60) { dump_mozilla(); set_invalid_host("www.mozilla.org", ALWAYS); install_ie60(); download_latest_patch(IE60); apply_security_patch(KB828028); apply_security_patch(KB832894); ...
February 13, 2004 05:53 PM
Towards Firefox 1.0
Mozilla developer Ben Goodger has written an interesting post on the Mozillazine forums about plans for Firefox as it approches 1.0. Originally the roadmap contained more features for 1.0, but were trimmed so that they can focus on the following two critical things: Seamless Data Migration from other browsers. Automated...
February 12, 2004 06:43 PM
MozillaZine Knowledge Base
New to the Mozilla community is a Knowledge Base Wiki (as first reported at MozillaZine). The wiki will "help gather support, resources, hints, tips and FAQs (frequently asked questions) all in one place" through community based efforts for all things Mozilla. The project is limited only to the amount of...
February 11, 2004 07:48 PM
Are You Full As A Goog?
