Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Yesterday I posted about an issue using the new Prism for Firefox extension on OS X. Based on a suggestion from Chris Beard, I've implemented a workaround that fixes the problem. It's not the world's cleanest solution, but it is only needed until the next release of Firefox comes out ...
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
As we prepare to go live with Prism 1.ob3, I should mention that there is an issue with using the Prism extension in Firefox 3.6 on OS X. Prism uses the Firefox runtime (meaning the XUL, XPCOM and other libraries) for apps it creates. There is a small bug in ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
I've built new versions of Prism based on the same Gecko 1.9.1 sources as Firefox 3.5. I also updated the Prism for Firefox extension so it runs on Firefox 3.5. I'd like to get these onto the official Prism site as soon as possible, but would appreciate if interested folks ...
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Google Chrome has achieved striking success considering that it has yet to celebrate its first birthday. Mike Arrington at TechCrunch claims that the browser now has 30 million users (citing Google as a source). [Update: The Google OS post mentions this in the second sentence so I'm not sure why ...
Tags: chrome, firefox, google, mozilla, web os | 20 Comments »
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
I was chatting recently with the founder of a high-profile startup that is making strategic use of Mozilla technology. "People keep telling me that WebKit is the future," he complained. "Have we made the wrong choice?"
I did my best to reassure him of course, providing arguments that support their choice ...
Tags: apple, chrome, firefox, flock, google, mozilla, platform, webkit | 28 Comments »
Friday, September 26th, 2008
With all the hype generated by the launch of Google Chrome, one couldn't help but wonder whether the world truly needs a new web browser. Two perfectly serviceable products are bundled with the leading operating systems (IE and Safari on Windows and OS X, respectively), and two open source competitors ...
Tags: family, firefox, glubble | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Due to overwhelming public outcry (which is how I characterize two requests in the same day), I've updated the version of Prism for Firefox on addons.mozilla.org to the latest 0.2.1 release.
This version is so much better than the old one, it's not even funny. It includes a slew of new ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I didn't see a compelling reason to switch to Opera when I tried it, so in the interest of fair and balanced coverage, here are 10 reasons why you should use the Opera browser, according to one commentator.
Interview with Aza Raskin (Mozilla's head of user experience) about the future of ...
Tags: bits and bobs, chrome, firefox, gears, ie, microsoft, opera, safari, ubiquity | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 15th, 2008
I posted an update of the Prism for Firefox extension weeks ago, but like an idiot I specified the maximum compatible Firefox version as 3.0. Naturally Firefox 3.0.1 came out shortly afterwards, but somehow I never got around to bumping the version number in the extension (which should have been ...
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