Netscape released a preview of its new Firefox-based browser. As expected, it is Firefox’s speed with an ugly theme and Netscape network stuff caked on.
One interesting addition is the ability to switch rendering engines between Mozilla’s Gecko and Microsoft’s Trident (to see what the page looks like in IE). The Netscape preview also supports site-specific [...]
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There were a lot of bug fixes in Firefox’s 1.0 release. Unfortunately, the profile manager didn’t come through unscathed. I bypassed the profile manager’s buggy performance via the terminal.
Mozilla documentation tells you to launch the profile manager using this path that dives in the Firefox package: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox - ProfileManager . While this works (mostly) [...]
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I know this is old news by now, but it’s definitely good news.
POP access to your Gmail. I just hope Google doesn’t get in too deep trying to be everything to everybody.
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Recent criticisms of Firefox missing OS-specific features indicated to me this week that there are a lot of people out there who are missing a fundamental part of the Mozilla project and its goals.
I think it is worth hearkening back to the days of Netscape and Marc Andreessen original concept of the browser. Netscape wasn’t [...]
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Google Search Bar is coming to the best OS on the planet, which got me thinking about Mac support. As a reviewer these many MacMerc years (3?) I have noticed one thing about companies that support Mac in addition to PC’s: they are doing well.
Support of additional operating systems is an indication of R&D [...]
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Sometimes it only requires a little nudge to make a needed switch. After palm sync miserably failed with Entourage, keychain-related errors was all it took for me to dump my PIM of 3 years. It was time too: my contacts are in vCard and my calendar in iCal (via Mozilla Calendar).
Enter Mozilla Thunderbird. Like Firefox, [...]
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Here’s a nice Monday morning surprise…
Update: Come and gone, apparently Atom was an (unintentional?) preview of coming attractions. While the button has disappeared, the feed is still there at http://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom.
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Ah, first loves. Remember Cyberdog, Apple’s modular OpenDoc web-swiss army knife? It was great - you could activate modules like chat and mail for more functionality or leave things be and run sleek and fast.
Well, Cyberdog my be long gone, but the idea lives on. Where? Firefox. The Mozilla browser is lean and fast - [...]
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Growing market share, a cutting edge browser and a behemoth to beat - these are exciting days for FireFox fans. After months (for some years) of alpha releases, the efforts of the masses are paying off big.
Now the work is moving past the programmers to the early adopters - us. And how we carry the [...]
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Open Source has a stigma of being a bunch of hippies (on flower-power iMacs?), which is of course inaccurate. From the viewpoint of a cold hard cash-minded MBA, the Open Source structure actually is a marvelous lesson in economic efficiency.
What? Well, in traditional software, the price premium is a composite of fixed overhead costs, variable [...]
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