Author Archives: Justin Dolske

About Justin Dolske

Mostly harmless.

An experiment in Firefox bug triage

If you’ve been around Mozilla for a while, you probably know that Bugzilla’s “Firefox :: General” component has a bad reputation; a place where bugs languish and die without attention. It’s not entirely true — over the last year we’ve … Continue reading

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Speaking of Community

In my last post I mentioned how super satisfying it is to be part of a community working together to make Firefox better. This morning someone new dropped into #fx-team on IRC, asking about a reproducible problem and how to … Continue reading

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Community participation

(First, let me note that there will be no flame-farting robots in this post.) Now that’s out of the way, let me refer you to this post by Notch, creator of the wildly-successful indy game Minecraft. Someone tweeted me about … Continue reading

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What’s hot for Android?

The correct answer, of course, is Firefox Mobile. :-) But what _other_ apps are must-have for Android? Some context: I got a Motorola Atrix phone a few months ago, it was my first Android device. I’ll probably blog more about … Continue reading

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Seven Things

“Seven Things” is the hip new, err, thing that all the kids are doing these days. I got pinged, so here’s my 7. Hey, let’s do this David Letterman style. *drumroll* TOP SEVEN THINGS ABOUT JUSTIN DOLSKE! 7. Has a … Continue reading

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Irate Discussions In Community

There’s been been a lot of concern and anger of late, mainly around the perception that Firefox isn’t appealing for Enterprise deployments. I don’t really understand this, because Firefox has had outstanding Enterprise integration for quite some time — by … Continue reading

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Browsing without Flash

I’ve been browsing with a Flash-less Firefox 4 for the past week. I just upgraded to a new laptop, and rather than install Flash (and Flashblock :-) right away, I figured I’d try to go without for a while to … Continue reading

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Regarding the radio star

‘Tis the eve before the Firefox 4 launch. By tomorrow afternoon everyone’s feeds and twitters will be overflowing — overflowing! — with Firefox 4 news, which makes now the perfect time to blog about embarrassing things you’d sooner see forgotten. … Continue reading

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Firefox is made of Lego

I don’t remember exactly how it began. Six months ago, something got me thinking about making a Lego mosaic. Maybe it was an example of one on Reddit, or just inspiration from popular 8-bit “pixel art”. But the end result … Continue reading

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Bugmail

I’ve been feeling increasingly buried with bugmail as of late, and just thought I’d blog a bit about how I’m coping. I’m curious how others deal with the influx, and if there are other tips/tricks useful to share. For those … Continue reading

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