A narrative on the future of web browsers and web browsing

Prism and the Open Web Store

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Responding to Google's announcement last week of a Chrome Web Store, Jay Sullivan asks on the Mozilla Blog for ideas about an alternative Open Web App Store. This is something that I've been thinking about and discussing with Mark Finkle for a couple of years now in the context of ...

Prism 1.0b4, Fixes Rare Windows Registry Issue

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

A while back I blogged about a rare issue that occurred if a user clicked on the regprot.exe file included in Prism to handle protocol handler registration. I thought the issue had been fixed ages ago, but a couple of recent reports have led me to believe that it can ...

Wanted: C++ Developer in Prague for Mozilla-Related Projects

Friday, March 26th, 2010

I've been doing freelance development for the past two years for various clients. All of the projects I currently work on are related to Mozilla technologies (Prism, Firefox extensions, etc.). Business is booming, and I would like to hire someone to help me keep up. The only two hard requirements ...

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 ...

Do We Need a Firefox OS?

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 ...

The Browser Platform Wars

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 ...

FOSDEM Bound

Friday, February 6th, 2009

In a few hours I'll be jetting off to Brussels for FOSDEM, the annual European open source get together. On Sunday I'll be presenting an updated version of the Prism talk that I gave at MozCamp EU last fall. We have big plans for Prism, which has slipped somewhat under ...

Lions and Tigers and EU MozCamp… Oh My!

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

I'm in Madrid right now for a couple of days of R&R (in theory, at least) before heading to Barcelona tomorrow for EU MozCamp. I'll be running a session on Prism. The timing is auspicious since we're at something of a crossroads with the product. It doesn't have any obvious ...

Browser Bits and Bobs for October 14, 2008

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Let's call this an "in case you missed it" edition of Browser Bits and Bobs, since I've been disgustingly busy and haven't posted anything in far too long. But for those who have been preoccupied by events outside the tech sector (MLB postseason, impending financial armageddon, talking chihuahuas, etc.): this ...

The Economist on “Non-Profit Capitalism”: What It Implies for Mozilla

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Wending my way through this week's Economist, I came across an article about "non-profit capitalism". (Get it while it's hot, it'll probably end up behind a pay wall soon enough.) Specifically, the article describes the recent IPO filing of a non-profit organization called Do Something: This imitation of the for-profit IPO ...