Mozilla
On Tuesday, the Mozilla Foundation and Adobe announced the Tamarin project, an open-source ECMAScript virtual machine based on the ActionScript engine used by Flash Player 9.
Frank Hecker's overvie...
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is out, and is the most exciting browser release in a very long time. It comes with the Gecko 1.8 rendering engine, which includes a ton of interesting new features. New in this ver...
Google have finally released a Firefox version of the Google Toolbar, with some nice praise for XUL in to the bargain. Of course, the most interesting part of the toolbar from a geeky point of view is...
There are (to my knowledge) around 80 people on my undergraduate computer science course. Of those 80, I know of at least fourfive who's final year project involves writing a Firefox extension of some...
In The architecture of intermediation, Jon Udell discusses the need for a mechanism for a high-level tool for adding custom features to web applications. In Jon's case, he wants to add a private bookm...
Site specific browser customisations have been a a recurring theme on this site over the past six months. Thanks to the ever inventive Aaron Boodman that problem is pretty much solved. Greasemonkey is...
Ramez Naam, group program manager for MSN Search, declined to say whether or not search functions would be integrated directly into Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But a Microsoft executive, who aske...
Here's a feature that caught me by surprise (maybe I haven't been keeping my ear close enough to the ground): the new Firefox 1.0 preview release supports Live Bookmarks, a novel twist on RSS aggregat...
New in Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 3: bug 238099 - implement at-rule for matching on site/document URL. Here's the example:
@-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.mozilla.org/) {
#q { background: white ! im...
I've been thinking about per-site user stylesheets for a while now, but my colleague Adrian has gone one better: his All Music Guide Corrector extension for Firefox fixes their horrible JavaScript lin...
I've been thinking a lot about per-site user stylsheets recently. Eric Meyer's CSS signatures are great for sites that support them (as this site does), but the sites that really need altering are hig...
There are some interesting tid-bits hidden away in the release notes for the new Mozilla 1.7 RC 1 release. The following in particular caught my eye:
Mozilla 1.7 size and performance have improve...
Just a quick plug for a couple of FireFox extensions I've been digging recently. Chris Pederick's Web Developer toolbar / menu extension combines ideas from a whole bunch of other extensions and bookm...
A couple of interesting links about the security problems faced by the vast majority of the home PC using public, who don't know how to install security updates (or even what they are) and don't have ...
A couple of Python tips. The first is really a tip for Mozilla/Firebird: You can set up a Custom Keyword for instantly accessing Python module documentation using the string www.python.org/doc/current...
According to this Microsoft blogger the reason IE development has seemed quiet of late is that they've been working hard on XAML, an XML Application Markup Language which is a way to create applicatio...
I've been using these for ages, but in case you haven't heard about them here are some handy shortcuts involving Firebird's URL bar:
Enter a word (or several words) and hit Enter; Firebird runs ...
Thunderbird has to have the most deceiving version numbers of any software I've ever used. I avoided version 0.1 for ages because I incorrectly assumed that a 0.1 release shouldn't be trusted with my ...
Jesse Ruderman (of indispensible bookmarklets fame) now has a blog. It's off to a good start: here's a useful summary of the different chrome URLs available in Firebird and Mozilla....
Blake Ross has published a page on Marketing Firebird. He makes an interesting comparison between Firebird and Kazaa, pointing out that Kazaa has over 3.1 million downloads a week with promotion only ...
Mozilla 1.5 alpha is now available for download from Mozilla.org. Changenotes here (it looks like mostly improvements to Composer, but the ability to jump from the javascript debugger straight to the ...
Anil Dash suggests Google should start sponsoring the Mozilla project, and use it as a basis for releasing their own browser. He makes a very good case:
Firebird is, finally, a usable browser, an...
Chances are you've heard this already, but Netscape is no more. MozillaZine are reporting that AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla in a mass firing and are dismantling what w...
I've been pretty unexcited by Thunderbird so far: I'm pretty picky about my mail clients (so far Evolution is the only client I've really liked) and Mozilla's never really lived up to my expectiations...
Well that explains an awful lot. I was getting a huge number of complaints about lost comments when people were told off by my comment HTML checker, so it's nice to know that the problem wasn't entire...
Phil Ringnalda writes about Firebird extensions:
Don't get me wrong: Firebird by itself is a wonderful browser. Just the standard tabbed browsing, so you can easily switch between several differe...
There's a new nightly build of the Mozilla mouse gestures plugin which supports Firebird 0.6 and has a preferences panel, complete with options for setting up custom gestures. I missed the customise b...
AndyEd on the Mozilla gestures project:
We're actually on the cusp of a huge new release with awesome customization features including complete customization of rocker (mouse button) mappings.
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XUL: rendering GUIs with PHP and XUL to PHP-GTK, both on the excellent phpPatterns(). If you're using a Gecko-based browser be sure to check out the XUL Interface to phpPatterns() proof-of-concept, wh...
Why You Should Switch to the Mozilla Firebird by Ben Goodger is an excellent overview of Firebird's advantages over other browsers, hosted on the Phoenix project site. I'm really looking forward to th...
While browsing around my phoenix/ directory I spotted a sub-directory called searchplugins, which appears to control the list of search engines available in the very useful search box at the top right...
Word on the street is that Phoenix 0.6 (or Firebird or Mozilla Firebird or Mozilla Browser or whatever else you want to call it) could be out within the next week or so. I'm using the 28th April night...
The Mozilla project is shifting focus to concentrate more on standalone apps such as Phoenix and Minotaur. Cool. The full story can be found on MozillaZine, with further details on the Mozilla.org Roa...
Sam Ruby has enabled spell checking for the preview comment tool on his blog. I wonder how it works... I've lost track of the scripting language Sam uses for Intertwingly (PHP? Python? Perl?) but I kn...
Matthew Haughey (freshly redesigned) has published a Mozilla advocacy article explaining why Mozilla (and variants) are excellent tools for bloggers. Spot on....
Via Scott, this oh-so-true quote from a Microsoft "next-generation technology" consultant:
Internet Explorer hasn't had any revolutionary features for over 3 versions now. And it's now surprise ...
And over on Blogzilla, Lim Chee Aun has finally solved the niggling bug with Phoenix 0.5 on Windows where the icon shown in the taskbar is an ugly default Windows image....
Optimoz have released Version 0.3.5 Release Candidate 3 of their mouse gestures add-on for Mozilla based browsers. I hadn't tried the version 0.3.5 series before and the improvements are impressive to...
News.com: Apple snub stings Mozilla. Surprisingly comprehensive coverage of the Mozilla communities reactions to Safari. What impressed me was the number of links to weblogs in the news story. It look...
The MozillaZine Review of the Year 2002 shows just how far the Mozilla project progressed in 2002. From a 0.9.8 milestone in January, the open source browser bounded on past version 1.0 and span off p...
Phoenix 0.5 has been released, and so far it's an absolute dream. The Windows installer is a paltry 6.1 MB and it is noticable faster than Phoenix 0.4 - the initial speed boost was so impressive I spe...
If you weren't already exited about the OSAF, maybe it's time you were. I just spotted on Mitch Kapor's blog that they've hired Robin Dunn (of wxPython fame, and winner of the ActiveState 2002 Python ...
An Introduction to the DOM Inspector (via Scott Andrew). The DOM inspector is a powerful but little-known tool that comes packaged with Mozilla and can be used to interactively browse through the DOM ...
Michel: How to hide Flash banner ads in Mozilla using a few lines of CSS added to the userContent.css file. A great example of CSS2 selectors at work....
Phoenix 0.4 is out, and it's so good it has replaced Mozilla as my default browser. Type Ahead Find makes browsing links and searching pages a dream (I've really come round to it after my initial whin...
Jeffrey Zeldman's new design continues to develop, but remains virtually unreadable on my monitor (without extensive tweaking of the settings). I'm not griping though as this was an ideal opportunity ...
Uzilla (via SurfMind) is a commercial product built on top of Mozilla:
The Uzilla suite is a set of tools for web based usability testing. It decreases the time and effort required set up and do ...
Yesterday I blogged Opera's impressive looking small screen rendering technology. Now take a look at this (via Blogzilla). Daniel Glazman has created a Mozilla bookmarklet that does everything Opera's...
ContentEditable for Mozilla is a hot topic at the moment. The main focus of the debate is this bug on Bugzilla, which gets pretty heated. Blogzilla has a good explanation of the principles behind the ...
The Mozilla Link Prefetching FAQ (via Blogzilla). Prefetching is a browser mechanism, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. W...
Scott Andrew: XML Transformations with CSS and DOM. Forget about XSLT, Scott demonstrates how CSS can be used to visually style XML documents while a bit of Javascript can add additional behaviour suc...
KPMG.com still sucks in Mozilla....
Since I'm using the University Library computers at the moment I'm having to reinstall Mozilla on a daily basis. Here's how I do it:
Download Mozilla 1.2 Alpha for Windows (11 MB), taking advantage...
The first alpha version of Mozilla 1.2 has been released, with the most notable new feature being Type Ahead Find. I've played with this on previous Mozilla builds (it was available as an addon) and i...
Because I keep on forgetting where it is, View HTTP and HTML Source, a handy tool for debugging HTTP type stuff courtesy of those fine Mozilla folk....
Strange Mozilla bug: In some versions of Mozilla / Netscape 6+ <label> elements that have a float applied to them will vanish. Tom Gilder's test case can be viewed here. I tried it in Mozilla 1....
A few days ago, I blogged the following:Imagine a textarea element that, when double clicked, spawned a brand new editing environment in a new window with all of the tools of a modern text editor. Or ...
Hixie has a brilliant solution to the time zone problem in the form of a clever piece of XBL by Nicolás Lichtmier. The small script can be bound to an element containing a date in UTC and will ...
Judging by the screenshot on this page, Scott really needs Mozilla :) I'm currently running Windows XP on a Pentium II with 128 MB of RAM but thanks to Mozilla's tabbed browsing I have over 20 web pag...
Leonard Lin has blogged a whole bunch of useful Mozilla links. He also has this to say about mouse gestures:
OK, some people like gestures. I don't because I like dragging my mouse around and highlig...
Scott wants a rich text editor for Mozilla. What's more, he's willing to put his money where his mouth is and organise a fund drive to give developers a real incentive to do a good job.
At Incutio we...
Aquarionics has joined the Mozilla <link> element party....
Stuart has put together a nice demonstration of how Mozilla's CSS3 selectors can be used to automatically add icons to external links, in response to Mark Pilgrim's guide to achieving the same effect ...
News to me: Mozilla supports the <marquee> element (marquee test page)! Support was added a couple of months ago in light of the fact that nearly 30% of top 150 sites in China use the marquee
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The Register: approximately 25 per cent of readers access our site using non-Microsoft browsers (mentioned in passing in an article on Alexa). Now for some pure speculation. I can't imagine that this ...
Dave Hyatt explains why Mozilla's tabbed browsing is different to (and better than) Opera's MDI model:Tabs are not a replacement for window management. They are an enhancement that can be used in conj...
David Hyatt's neo-cortical implant is holding out just fine....
A couple of Mozilla pieces, courtesty of Blogzilla. First up is the news that Dave Hyatt is leaving Netscape to work for Apple (Hixie mentioned this the other day). Blogzilla's jeffp wonders if this c...
The Mozilla Web Author FAQ answers questions on doctypes, broken stylesheets, image table gaps and javascript detection - the most common problems faced by web developers new to developing for Mozilla...
Here's a treat for anyone with a browser that supports alpha transparency in PNGs (Mozilla and IE5/Mac do, IE/Win doesn't). Click on one of the little magnifying glasses under a thumbnail and the skin...
Mozilla oddity - if you rename a bookmark to the the same name as it's shortcut keyword the shortcut keyword will stop functioning. I couldn't see it in Bugzilla so I've submitted it as bug 156418....
Evolt: New DOCTYPE sniffing in upcoming Mozilla releases. If you weren't confused enough by Mozilla's standards and quirks modes, the next release of the browser will include a third rendering mode ca...
I linked to the 5k entry Wolfenstein 5K the other day. Lee Semel, the author of the entry, has written an article describing how the impressive Javascript first person shooter works. The principle met...
WebReference: XML in Mozilla 1.0. A quick summary of the XML technologies available with Mozilla 1.0, code samples not included....
I've been playing around with Mozilla's "Page Info" feature, available in the View menu, the right-click context menu and through the Ctrl+I shortcut. I'd never really lookd at it before, but the info...
New project in the works - details to follow soon. In developing it I've learnt two new things about Mozilla:
Mozilla requires XBL files to be served with a text/xml Content-Type header.
Mozilla d...
Peter-Paul Koch on evolt: One browser, many names - an invaluable guide to the many different version numbers and user-agent strings resulting from the Mozilla project....
Mozilla 1.1 Alpha was released yesterday, and after reading Scott Andrew's recommendation (especially with respect to the mail client) I decided to give it a go. I found the ability to turn off images...