Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: Mozilla

  • Stop! Yammer Time

    Yammer is a service designed to help co-workers keep each other up-to-date on their work progress by answering the question “What are you working on?” Yammer Time is a Firefox extension that reminds you to use Yammer. By default, every 4 hours between 9AM and 5PM on weekdays, it will pop up this obtrusive prompt:…

  • Firefox’s memory usage is out of control

    I had been told that after upgrading to Firefox 3, it would only need 15 terabytes of RAM…

  • Feed Sidebar Update

    Feed Sidebar is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser that displays the items from your newsfeeds in a sidebar. It can be downloaded for free from Mozilla Add-ons. I just uploaded an update for Feed Sidebar to Mozilla Add-ons. Changes since version 3.0.1 include: New Features Added an option to always have new…

  • Feed Sidebar updated for Firefox 3

    Firefox 3 introduced many new features for extension developers, and I decided to take advantage of some of them in order to update my Feed Sidebar extension. Version 3.0 of Feed Sidebar is now out, and these are the main features and changes I added: Look and feel: I updated all of the icons for…

  • Firefox 3

    Today marks the release of Firefox 3. It’s free. It’s fast. It’s the best Web browser ever created. (Yes, even better than Netscape Navigator 9, if you can believe it.) Did I mention that it’s free? Do yourself a favor and upgrade from whatever steaming pile of garbage you’re using to browse the Web. Because…

  • Mozilla Firefox Bug #237180

    In this episode of “Bug Evangelism,” Chris highlights a 4-year-old bug in Firefox concerning bookmark keywords. Mozilla Firefox lets you assign “keywords” (or “shortcuts”) to bookmarks by entering a word or phrase in the bookmark’s “keywords” field. The advantage to setting a keyword for a bookmark is that you can load the page more quickly…

  • Netscape is dead; long live Mozilla.

    Tom just posted the official announcement: As of February 1, 2008, Netscape will no longer exist as a product-producing entity. “AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given…

  • If you’re looking for a job, I bet Mozilla’s hiring.

    Mozilla seems to be having a problem retaining their employees. Last week, the only two developers paid to work on Thunderbird quit, and today Firefox build engineer Paul Reed announced that he’s leaving. I wonder what’s up…

  • New Book of Mozilla verse

    If you’re running Netscape Navigator 9.0, type “about:mozilla” into the address bar to see the newest verse from the Book of Mozilla: “And thus the Creator looked upon the beast reborn and saw that it was good. — from The Book of Mozilla, 8:20” A cookie goes to the first person who can identify the…

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