“We do not want to ship crap on time. We want to ship good software when it is ready to be shipped.” –Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe.
(on why Mozilla refuses to set a fixed date on the release of Firefox v3)

Tags: firefox, mozilla

Tags: firefox, mozilla

Is it a blast from the past or the future to come? This is the Mozilla Add-Ons RSS feed as viewed in Thunderbird. Note the date in the subject lines versus the time stamps in the date column.

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My current extensions:
= Not compatible with Fx3
Calculator (add-ons)
Much faster than trying to find the calculator on my cluttered desk.
Delicious Bookmarks (ad-ons)
Access your bookmarks wherever you go and keep them organized no matter how many you have.
Digger (add-ons)
Dig through the URLs in a site’s hierarchy. Right-click the site’s icon in the location bar or context [...]

Note: Rather than editing or repeating this post, I gave it a page of its own.
Thinking about trying Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2? Below is the list of my current extensions, with the extensions incompatible with v2 stricken. When installing, I chose the Custom method so that I could put it in another folder and [...]

Update: 8/31/06

BBCode 0.4.1.3
BlogThis 0.3
Bookmark Backup 0.3.3
Bookmarks LinkChecker 0.6.8.2
Calculator 1.1.2
Domain Details 1.0.1
Fasterfox 1.0.3
Forecastfox Enhanced 0.9.3
Gmail Manager 0.5.1
Google Notebook 1.0.0.5
Google Suggest 1.0.0.2005110710
Greasemonkey 0.6.5.20060727
Hyperwords(tm) 1.5.1
IE View 1.2.9
InfoLister 0.9e
Linkification 1.2.4
MeasureIt 0.3.5
PageStyle2Tab 0.7.2
Restart Firefox 0.3
SearchPluginHacks 0.1.3 [disabled]
SearchStatus 1.16
SecurePassword Generator 0.5.3 [...]

Of course there are some grumbles and upgrades woes going on in the Mozilla forums, but I made the move this evening and everything is gravy. The upgrade instructions (from the Mozilla site) call for deleting everything in the Thunderbird program folder, but I just uninstalled v1.07 first and did a clean install.
Make sure to [...]

Did Mozilla know it was my birthday today? They released Firefox 1.5 just for me? Actually, I think I’ll hold off upgrading for a few days to give the extension updates a chance to get caught up.
Another important event happened today. This is the last day of hurricane season. After the season we’ve been through, [...]

Akin to installing new themes for Firefox, you can also select your own background for the toolbars.

The article doesn’t mention which folder to place the background file. The chrome folder (in the profile directory) worked for me.
Updated:

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