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Musings on Mozilla and open-source software
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Thunderbird Guide?
I’m thinking about writing a guide to Thunderbird and then updating it as soon as Thunderbird 3 comes out.
Any interest??
Firefox 3 Personas
Mozilla Labs continues to work on the Personas extension for Firefox 3. Personas are lightweight skins that allow you to change the skin of Firefox easily.
Download Ubiquity for Firefox
Ever wanted to be able to interact with Mozilla Firefox with natural language? Now you can with an amazing and innovative extention called Ubiquity.
Connect the web with language.
Ubiquity is an experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily. It’s a Firefox extension, so it works on Macs, Windows, and Linux.
With only a couple keystrokes, it lets you use language to instruct your browser. You can translate to and from most languages, add maps to your email, edit any page, twitter, check your calendar, search, email your friends, and much more. All without leaving the page you’re on.
Problematic Firefox extensions
Check this website if you’re curious about Firefox extensions and their affect on the browser. Sometimes it’s a good resource to rid yourself of an extension that you don’t need and might be causing problems.
Firefox problems? Try safe mode!
If you seem to be having unexplained issues with Firefox, try launching it in safe mode. This way you can see how Firefox runs on your system without any themes or extensions installed. Firefox is shipped stable, secure, and fast so if you’re not experiencing these features, you should disable your extensions one by one and get rid of your themes. It might save you the trouble of switching to an inferior browser.
Chairperson of Mozilla Explains I.E.’s Unfair Advantage
Quote from the Lizard Wrangler:
“Last month the European Commission stated its preliminary conclusion that “Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.”
In my mind, there is absolutely no doubt that the statement above is correct. Not the single smallest iota of doubt. I’ve been involved in building and shipping web browsers continuously since before Microsoft started developing IE, and the damage Microsoft has done to competition, innovation, and the pace of the web development itself is both glaring and ongoing. There are separate questions of whether there is a good remedy, and what that remedy might be. But questions regarding an appropriate remedy do not change the essential fact. Microsoft’s business practices have fundamentally diminished (in fact, came very close to eliminating) competition, choice and innovation in how people access the Internet.”
How to Enable TraceMonkey on Firefox 3.1
Hey I have noticed some major misconceptions about the speed of the nightly builds of Firefox 3.1 Some reviewers have attempted to compare Firefox 3.1 with other browsers like Chrome and have come up with unexpected results. This is mostly due to the individuals NOT enabling TraceMonkey (the new JavaScript engine) in Firefox 3.1. You HAVE to enable TraceMonkey in order to get the increased speed it provides. Here’s how you do it, courtesy of the Mozilla Wiki:
“Playing with TraceMonkey
TraceMonkey is currently available for testing in nightly builds. You will need to go take the following steps to turn it on:
- open a new tab
- type about:config and hit enter
- read the warning and heed its wisdom
- enter jit in the filter field
- double click on javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content to change their values to true
If you experience instability, please file a bug and reference any crash report ID that might be relevant.”
New Fennec (Mobile Firefox) Milestone
Okay, this is just cool. I can’t wait until Fennec is finished!
Fennec (Mobile Firefox) has reached milestone 6 (M6) last week and can be installed to a Nokia N8×0 for testing. Remember, we haven’t reach alpha yet, but we are getting close. M6 adds “tabs” to the browser UI, adds tel: and mailto: support and makes some much needed stability improvements.
Firefox 3.0.1 Ready for Wednesday
According to the meeting notes for this week, the first security update for Firefox 3 will be out on the 16th. There’s about 30 bugs that will be fixed in the 3.0.1 release and this will most likely clean up any security issues that were made aware to Mozilla after the initial release of FF3.
