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September 9, 2008

History of the browser user-agent string

Or how we got from “NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1)” to “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13”

August 27, 2008

Mozilla Labs: Introducing Ubiquity

Nifty new Firefox extension, taking the quicksilver shorty-cutty app-launcher approach to the web. Looks very promising.

December 9, 2007

Autocomplete Manager :: Firefox Add-ons

Dead handly location-bar-autocomplete-expander for Firefox 2 — It matches against all parts of the URL and page title, so it’s easier to find pages from your history.

July 23, 2007

Linux.com :: Latest Mozilla Sunbird is a well-connected calendar

Sunbird is flourishing into a good-citizen calendaring client. Syncs both-ways with Google Calendar, which is handy.

April 12, 2007

Correo - a new mail client for OS X

An attempt to mould Thunderbird into a more Mac-like mail client.

January 9, 2007

xmpp4moz - Trac

Yowsers! A Firefox extension that enables simple asynchronous webapps, using Jabber’s XMPP prototcol. If this gets legs, it could be the birth of some wicked cool stuff.

October 10, 2006

Open Source madness!

Good commentary of the unpleasantness that’s about to unfold with this Firefox/Iceweasel fork. The two new “features” which will now ship with Debian, Ubuntu, et al are just the tip of an iceberg of confusion and incompatibility.

July 26, 2006

Problematic extensions - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

If, like me, you’ve got a shedload of Firefox extensions installed and, like me, are seeing memory leaks in Firefox, this guide can help you track down the responsible parties.

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