A narrative on the future of web browsers and web browsing

Archive for October, 2009

Prism and Extensions

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

One of the most frequent questions I get about Prism is how to make it work with such-and-such beloved Firefox extension. One thing is certain, to make an extension work with Prism you have to add Prism's application ID to the extension's install.rdf file, as described here. The ID for ...

Debug version of Prism 1.0b2 for Ubuntu

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

A number of people have reported crashes when using the Prism 1.0b2 build on Ubuntu. I haven't been able to reproduce this problem, so I've created a debug build for further testing. The first person to get me a usable backtrace of the crash will win: a new car! Okay, maybe ...

Prism Presentation from EU MozCamp 2009

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

This year's European MozCamp was held in my home town of Prague. The venue, the Andel's hotel in Smichov, was perfect: cool-looking interior, convenient location and even surprisingly good food (we are in Prague, after all). Many thanks to the organizers, William and Irina, for choosing Prague and for throwing ...

In Defense of Chrome Frame

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Web technology's pace of evolution is vexingly slow, the result of the wide range of browsers (new and legacy) that must support any innovation in order for it to take hold. Even back in the good old days (basically any time before 2005), when only the Netscape lineage of browsers ...