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The Trouble with OpenOffice.org

TechWorld reports that OpenOffice.org will soon be bundled with Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning, but I think that the news that OpenOffice plans to support plugins to extends its feature set is just as important.
OpenOffice will get "Firefox-like" extension capabilities by version 2.0.4, due this month, Schulz said. The suite's existing extensions platform will get a [...]

Firefox's Session Restore

The first time I mentioned Firefox on this website was because it had crashed and I had lost a post that I had written. Indeed, looking back at what I have previously written, it is clear that Firefox often only enters the picture when it is misbehaving.
This does not mean that I do not like [...]

Now with More Monetization, Courtesy of Google

After some careful consideration, I have decided to participate in Google's AdSense Referrals program, which pays website owners when their visitors download a number of software packages or join AdSense or AdWords. I chose Mozilla Firefox, as you can see by the button on the sidebar to the right. While the technical nature of many [...]

The AutoLink Greasemonkey user script and data loss

Over the past few weeks, I have occasionally lost data when writing in Firefox. I believe that the first time I noticed this problem was while editing the Wikipedia article on Tibet. After fixing one small grammatical error, I realized that much of the section I had edited had somehow been deleted. Further investigation revealed [...]

'Get FoxIE' Gets Infringing

The Internet Explorer plugin FoxIE may claim to be a combination of the best in Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, but its website shows that it is but a weak copy of the popular browser by Mozilla.

Anonymous Programming Sucks

Sometime last week, I switched from Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 to a more recent build. How is this possible, when 1.0.6 is the only version available for download on Mozilla's site?
The answer is that while Mozilla Firefox is open-source, its development is also open. This allows regular Firefox users like me (and hopefully you) to actively [...]

Greasemonkey User Script for Washington Post RSS Query Strings

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows changing the behavior of websites through the addition of "user scripts." User scripts are also supported in the latest version of Opera, and in Internet Explorer through Trixie and the not-yet-released Turnabout. The user scripts I have installed include Jesse Ruderman's AutoLink (which creates hyperlinks in useful places), [...]