Since my ThinkPad is still broken (it actually came back from the service depot worse than when it left; I will write a proper entry about the entire experience once it is over), I am forced to use my cell phone to browse the Internet (and, by extension, write this message. Please excuse the lack [...]
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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 [...]
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
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 [...]
After having repeatedly running into people who were using the new public beta of Flock (released just two days ago), a browser based on Mozilla Firefox that sports heavy integration with various Web 2.0 services (including Flickr, del.icio.us, and blogging), I decided to give it a try.The fact that it is a Mozilla-based browser gives [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Does your copy of Mozilla Thunderbird not correctly add messages to your Sent Folder? Read on for details on how to fix this.
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Do not get me wrong - ForecastFox is a wonderful Firefox extension, and I fully realize that the text from their forecasts comes from AccuWeather. Regardless, seeing "Thundery rains in the p.m." all day for today's forecast has had me shaking my head in amusement all day. It conveys to me nothing that is not [...]
Sunday, September 4, 2005
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.
Friday, September 2, 2005
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 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), [...]
Outfoxed looks really cool (via Waxy Links), but unfortunately, Outfoxed only runs on Windows (since most of Outfoxed is a Firefox extension, the user interface works, but the MDDB server needs to be built if you are using Linux, which is annoying to those used to the traditional fire-and-forget method of installing Mozilla extensions. If [...]
One of the best things about Mozilla Thunderbird is that it runs on a variety of operating systems. Another is that its extensions are also cross-platform, so if you switch operating systems (say, from Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux), you can simply re-install the extensions you know and love.
I decided I might as well take [...]
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Last night, I decided to switch all of my RSS feed bookmarks over to Live Bookmarks. I was then dismayed to find that clicking the "Check Feeds" button in Sage did not update my Live Bookmarks.
So dismayed that I began to look for another RSS reader. I had a few simple requirements:
open source
works on Windows [...]
Tuesday, February 1, 2005
Josh Aas writes that Macalester College has switched to Firefox in its computer labs. I can only imagine what it would mean for Firefox usage at Harvard if it became the official browser in our computer labs. As DrunkenBatman notes on his post about Microsoft Office (see the section on "Interface"), users get attached to [...]
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
When I read on Erik's blog that Sage 1.3 was released with Live Bookmark support, I was ecstatic. I immediately converted all of my RSS feeds from normal bookmarks to Live Bookmarks (it was as simple as editing bookmarks.html - the file where Firefox stores your bookmarks - and changing all incidences of HREF to [...]
Thursday, November 11, 2004
This week: Ashcroft resigned, Arafat died, Firefox 1.0 came out - with a customized start page, GMail got POP3 access, and the Nader/Camejo people responded to the email I sent them several months ago.
On a hopeful note (at least for those who do not want the world to end anytime soon), Ashcroft's resignation is surely [...]
Thursday, November 4, 2004
Not only is Firefox 1.0 RC2 coming out tomorrow, but Thunderbird 0.9 has been released. For all of those crazy Mac users out there, Camino 0.82 candidate builds are available.
Life goes on. Mozilla-related browser development continues. Someday I will get around to creating my own builds (since I would like a later build of Sunbird, [...]
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When I decided to switch to Linux, I was only slightly concerned about finding suitable applications. For web browsing, I figured that I had it covered. Mozilla Firefox, simply the best browser on today's market, had the advantage of running on Linux as well as Windows (good ol' cross-platform compatibility strikes again).
My previous experiences with [...]
Recently, I have been reading a number of articles touting the benefits of table-less HTML layouts, like this one at Stopdesign.
Interested in standards-based HTML design as I am, this morning I decided to research converting the Harvard International Review's website to XHTML. I had some problems with the 3-column layout (because of the use of [...]
One of my bigger annoyances about RSS feeds is that many large media outlets feel it necessary to add query strings to the URLs in their RSS feeds. Among the offenders are the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Slate.
Why is this annoying? I use Sage, a Mozilla Firefox extension, as my RSS reader. [...]
Even though I do not own a Mac (too expensive!), I have to admit that Apple is more forward-looking than many other technology companies. Take the release schedules of their operating systems. Not is there a new release every few months (a page straight out of the open-source playbook), but the codenames are easy to [...]
Wesner Moise, a former Microsoft employee, writes about how his computer contracted a Trojan Horse, as a result of using Internet Explorer. Frankly, I was not surprised until I read the last paragraph:
I can't believe that it was this easy to become infected; I also couldn't believe that Internet Explorer could be so flawed as [...]
Robert Scoble complains about a lack of media disclosure in an informIT article by Nigel McFarlane that is highly critical of Internet Explorer. Scoble says:
Imagine for a moment that I wrote an article praising Longhorn in PC Magazine. Wouldn't you want to know that I'm a "professional commentator" on the topic and that I'm seen [...]
From Scoble comes screenshots from Longhorn showing some cool features, including integration with hardware-based auxillary displays, similar to those that have appeared on cell phones in recent years, and improved support for contacts, including the potential to have a "communications history."