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Over at Peer Pressure there's a post on asking for an Eclipse-like IDE for XUL apps to be written on top of Firefox (or XULRunner to be technical). I agree with Alex's post, however, that it would be better to do Eclipse plug-ins for XUL.However, this leads to the idea of the competition between XUL...

I've written before about the unofficial toolbar before. Now Yahoo! has released an official Firefox toolbar. Gervase Markham points out some interesting notes.

19% of Instapundit Readers Use FirefoxAn impressive example of a non-techy site receiving a very large amount of Firefox visitors. While there's something to the argument that those who get their political news from a Weblog are likely to be more tech-saavy; I think that the more tech-saavy are reading Instapundit via RSS, which is...

Brendan's Roadmap Updates: OpenLaszlo and EclipseBrendan notes that Laszlo has released an IDE for LZX based on Eclipse. Noting the similarity of LZX and XUL, he asks for takers on patching it to support XUL. I hope we do find a taker, as that will be a huge step in allowing for people to adopt...

I've posted on this topic before.From an interview with CTO of Laszlo Systems:But now that the source code is open and available, we're working on establishing alliances to get this platform, especially the LZX language, to be a standard. That benefits us and the industry because this is the open Web. It's open source. It...

I've put the new version of WinNoia up. I did it quickly, so let me know if there's anything wrong. This update uses the latest version of Winstripe, so all the new icons are there, and makes the theme compatible with 1.0+.

I just stumbled across this. It seems like a great way to start playing with XUL. It lets you type XUL in the top frame area, and then shows the results as you type in the bottom frame area.

I've decided to some content on my Spread Firefox Blog. Basically, I'm just going to put links to posts here about Mozilla in the blog. I'm not much of a marketing guy, so I doubt I'll have much to say directly about how to succesfully Spread Firefox. If I do, though, I'll probably post the...

As a web developer, and as a web surfer, I want the web to do more. But I want don't want that to come at the cost of locking people into an browser or operating system choice. That's why supporting a browser like Firefox is so important. Firefox is cross-platform, so you're not locked into...

The Yahoo! Companion Toolbar for Firefox has been updated to work with Firefox 1.0 Preview Release. Plus, several bugs have been fixed, so it should be much more usable. Go download it! (That means you, Chris!).Note, only the installation page is updated. The front page hasn't changed to show the new version. I edited the...

I've hacked together a theme. Basically, I just put Noia 2.0 eXtreme's tabs and scrollbars onto the default theme. I've gone through a few iterations, and am pretty happy with the decision not to style the tab bar, but just the tabs.What I don't have is any artistic talent myself. For now, the icon for...

WeatherFox - Displays Weather Forecast in the Status BarBloglines Toolkit - Makes Bloglines a million times easier to useCute Menus - Adds icons to menusEdit CSS - Lets you edit css liveImage Toolbar - Brings the IE image tools to FirefoxPaste and Go - Lets you paste a link or a search and go to...

The release of Firefox 1.0 Preview Release yesterday managed to make several Mozilla sites more popular, according to Bloglines. Check it out, the top 4, and 6 of the top 10. And 9 of the top 15 gaining links too.Let's hope we can manage even better for the Firefox 1.0 Release.

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is out! Go get it, test it out, and report your problems so that Firefox 1.0 can be the best browser release ever!.Also, for those who are already fans of Firefox, spread the good word. Check outSpread Firefox! for ways to help the Firefox community.

Improving the feed discovery for Firefox is being tracked at Bug 257247

As I've mentioned, the new "Live Bookmarks" feature coming up in Firefox is not super useful. As in, it's not going to have the features to replace an aggregator. Which is fine. As I understand it, the purpose of adding it was to be able to get bookmarks from a remote location, even if it's...

There's a new homepage for WeatherFox. Improvements are still coming quickly, which is nice.By the way, "LiveMarks" or "Live Bookmarks" or whatever the current name for RSS in Firefox as bookmarks currently is, doesn't seem to be all that useful. Which, in a way, is good. People using tools like Bloglines cuts down on the...

Here's a couple of extensions for Firefox that have me excited:Bloglines Toolkit. This one has been out a while, and I've been using it constantly. It greatly simplifies subscribing to feeds, by adding a context menu that lets you choose to subscribe to the current page (or link if you right-clicked on a link). For...

On the new find feature: there is a preference currently called "Enable Find As You Type" that enables the old behavior of being able to just start typing, and have the find features start working. That makes me happy.Each feed that you've bookmarked you can manage options on: you can set the schedule for updating...

I'm not sure about the wisdom of adding new features before the 1.0 release of Firefox, but I have to say that the two new features being added right now are pretty awesome.The first new feature isn't technically new; it's just an improved UI for an old, beloved feature. The Find-As-You-Type (FAYT) feature has gotten...

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