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Archive for January, 2010

Thoughts on Planet Mozilla

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

One of the biggest struggles I face every day is information overload, just like most of the people reading this post. As a result I am constantly reassessing the value of various feeds in my RSS reader and viciously pruning the ones I don't really need. I don't subscribe to ...

Ubuntu Build of Prism 1.0b3pre

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Succumbing to overwhelming pressure from the Linux community, I've built Prism 1.0b3pre on Ubuntu. Download the standalone version or Firefox extension. I'm very pleased to say that (for whatever reason) I was able to reproduce the infamous Ubuntu crash experienced by some users of Prism 1.0b2. Some research led me to a ...

New Prism 1.0b3pre Build, Now With Mozilla 1.9.2

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Based on feedback from my last post, I fixed the extension version numbers (including the Firefox maxVersion) in Prism 1.0b3pre. I also decided to build on top of Mozilla 1.9.2 instead of 1.9.1. My policy has been to use the version of Mozilla that underlies the most recent official Firefox ...

Prism 1.0b3pre Available for Testing

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Quite a few bugs have been fixed since Prism 1.0b2, so I've made new builds for Mac and Windows. Please take a look and let me know if you have any problems. Once they've been tested a bit, I'll put them up on the Prism website as 1.0b3. Download Prism Standalone ...