Tag Archives: Firefox

Google Chrome’s Greatest Challenge? Open Source Development and Support of a Consumer Desktop Product

I’ve seen a lot of fantastic articles about what Google’s beta web browser Chrome is and isn’t, will and won’t be.
My good friend Chris Messina wrote a very interesting article, which in many ways comes down to a large, influential part of the web development community being disenfranchised from Mozilla.
Doom! Of course John Lilly is [...]

WordPress, Gears, Offline, Privacy

Google Gears has been enabled on WordPress.com for a couple of weeks now for some members, but was only announced this week. Andrew Ozz (azaozz) added this feature a couple of month ago in the development version of self-hosted WordPress. I’ve been using it for about a month, and even though I have a decent [...]

Firefox 3: the Best Window to the Web!

Firefox 3 was released this week, download it and have a better web browsing experience while supporting open and innovation software development!
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Microsoft Meaning of “UnsupportedBrowser”?

If “Office Live” is an indication, Microsoft seems to prefer a fragile web. A web not only restricted to a couple of web browsers, but also to specific operating systems.
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Does this mean that Netscape is really dead this time?

Almost fourteen years after Marc Andreessen’s first Netscape browser, “Netscape as a maker of client software is no more.” writes Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler.
“While we will no longer support the Netscape web browser as of [March 1], 2008, Netscape.com will still continue to serve as a general use Internet portal.”
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Firefox 3 Saved, Cookies Still Too Tasty By Default

On Sunday, Mozilla developers reverted a change to cookie handling that was going to make web mashup and widget developers’ lives horrible in Firefox 3 — it would likely have been a disaster for Firefox and Mozilla. Thank you team Mozilla for addressing this in such a timely manner!
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2luo.com YouTube Phishing? I Hope Not

I just noticed that I tried to login with my YouTube account information at www.2luo.com . I hope it isn’t a phishing or other form of malicious site, but to be safe I changed my password there and on sites where I used a related pattern.
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Develop diverse widespread community commitment

Chris Messina in response to his own post (with a little help from Richard MacManus):
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New flockstars!

Another 1007 Flockstars
October 16th, 2005

At 12:54 AM PST, the first 1007 people from the Flock “announcements” mailing list received an email from Bart Decrem inviting them to join the original Flockstars in trying the The Flock Developer Preview … Preview
Since the private release (v0.4.6 (0.5pre)) a few days ago to 282 friends of [...]

http://http:// & Microsoft.com

http://http:// is redirected to Microsoft. I have stumbled upon this once before, but did not have time to reflect on it.
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