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Category Archives: Firefox
AWESOME
This is a nice and simple twist on the usual tagcloud: show people a popular brand/logo, and let them tag it. I bet there are market research companies that sell such data for $lots, now it’s something anyone can build … Continue reading
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Launching and landing
Today we launched the first Release Candidate of Firefox 3 (yay!). 7 days from now, NASA will be landing a spacecraft on Mars. I thought it might be interesting to compare the two… The browser The spacecraft Original name: Phoenix … Continue reading
Posted in Firefox, PlanetMozilla, Technology
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Another look at SafeBrowsing warnings
I last blogged in February about some inadequacies with the SafeBrowsing warning page in Firefox 3. There have been some changes since then, which I think greatly improve things. Here’s the current warning page in Firefox 3: Just subtle changes … Continue reading
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Test cases make bad law
Testing seems to be the topic du jour this weekend… A few remarks. I don’t think this is a discussion that should be framed as an argument between pro-test and anti-test factions. In fact, I’m not even sure the latter … Continue reading
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User perception of SafeBrowsing
I’ve rarely hit the Google SafeBrowsing (malware) warning page, but last week it flagged a few sites that caught my attention. One was example.com (a reserved domain, which amusingly caused our test suite to fail :). The others were real … Continue reading
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Capital N, small y…
David Baron reminded me on IRC that there have been throbber design contests in the past… There’s this Netscape page for a 1995 (?) animation contest (holy 16-color flashback, batman!), which conveniently has images for each frame for the winner … Continue reading
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All Glory To The Hypno-Throbber
As you might have heard, the theme for Firefox 3 has been undergoing a refresh. Alex Faaborg has been blogging about most of the big changes, but I thought I’d mention one little piece of remaining work — the throbber … Continue reading
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Crashiness
Earlier today on IRC, someone mentioned a bug regarding the wording in the Breakpad crash reporting dialog… This made me realize it’s been quite a while since I’ve even *seen* that dialog pop up. So I poked around in my … Continue reading
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Whatever
A small amusement for the weekend: I recently ran across the Whatever button extension. It’s a wry take on the way users have been conditioned to automatically click through any prompt that interrupts their workflow. Sometimes it’s just ignoring a … Continue reading
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OS X and virtual “bloat”
There’s a lot of work going on these days to improve Mozilla’s memory usage, and it’s a complicated issue with different facets. When discussing this with users, one thing that sometimes comes up is the difference between a process’s working … Continue reading
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