Today I opened Firefox 3.6 to test an add-on I am working on (yes, many still support it) and saw this notice in the WordPress Dashboard. Well, it is not a surprise really, as WordPress has been doing great things for the Web to move it forward since it’s inception. They are Open Source. The [...]
Tag Archives: Mozilla Firefox
Web Hour + Zemanta + Mozilla = Success
Last week saw Firefox updated to version 7. I’m not sure if other communities party any more with the rapid release cycle, but we used it as an excuse not only to party but to talk about the latest happenings with Mozilla. Web Hour (Spletne urice in Slovene), our beloved technology meetup that happens every [...]
Proud
Today, I am proud to be a Firefox user and Mozillian. Thank you to the amazing Mozilla community worldwide that has contributed to Firefox 4 and the Open Web. If you don’t know what Mozilla and Firefox are all about, watch this video. Watch with subtitles in some languages here. Can’t see the video? Get [...]
Firefox 5 in Slovenia
Here in Slovenia we like to party like any good nation, so what better excuse than the birthday of our beloved Firefox. After all we were 2nd or 3rd to reach 50% Firefox market share, but are still licking our wounds after being pipped at the post by an Indonesia that came from nowhere. Not [...]
Facebook Picture Uploads from Firefox
If you are a Facebooker like myself, and put your photos there, now it is even easier to get the pictures online. In collaboration with Briks, the Facebook Toolbar for Firefox has a new upload feature in the recent 1.4 release. To activate, click on the picture icon on the right-most side of the toolbar. [...]
AMO maxVersion News
If you are an extension author and are confused about maxVersion and compatibility with Firefox 3.1b2, 3.1b3, 3.2 and so on, go and read Justin’s post on dev.amo: Revising AMO’s allowed versions compatibility policy The current AMO allowed list is as always here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/pages/appversions Related articles by Zemanta Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Now Available for [...]
Slovene l10n Update
For my Slovene speaking readers… Image by King Molan via Flickr The Slovene locale team made the Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 cutoff, so now test builds are available. Please try them out and report any issues. More details are over at our new blog set up by Matjaž Horvat. Our work is not done. Next [...]
All Browsers Want to be Mozilla
The only conclusion I could reach from this funny post about User-Agent Strings is that all browsers want to be Mozilla (Firefox). History of browser user-agent string Even before it existed. Mosaic was like an expectant parent with the offspring still the apple of it’s eye. And I don’t blame them really. Related articles by [...]
Extensions and Business
Image via Wikipedia Fred Wilson recently asked: Can You Build A Business on Browser Extensions? Alex Iskold tries to respond: Can Browser Add-ons Be Business? Well, this question has been answered a long time, as companies have been building extensions for Firefox for years, and the Mozilla Suite before that. Yet as mentioned in both [...]
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