Archive for February, 2005

Hard Drive Crash

My hard drive in my desktop has had a noticable tick for the past month or so. Well, It decided to give up the ghost on Saturday. I had to steal a hard drive out of my printer server to get it back up and running, so I’ve spent all weekend rebuilding my 2 computers. [...]

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Firefox Development

I’ve posted before that I would like to get more involved in actual Firefox development. Last week I started working toward that goal. I spent a couple of hours looking through bugzilla, and came up with a list of bugs a thought I could fix. I now have a list of 36 bugs to work [...]

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Firefox and Torrents

I would really love to see bittorrent capabilities added to Firefox. I’ve even thought about trying to implement this myself. A new project, torrential, was started by Andrew Kuttig, to see if he could implement it. I pointed him to Bug 236755 about adding bittorent as a download mechanism to Mozilla. He says that the [...]

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Mozilla/Firefox Development

I would really like to get involved in the actual development of Mozilla products. I have had a few of my patches checked in, but I just don’t know what area of code Im qualified for and could work on. I’m mainly just a javascript/xul guy. I can read C/C++ but I’ve never coded in [...]

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ForecastFox…

We’ve now past the 400,000 download mark on update.mozilla.org. That’s since December 22, and includes that fact we are now 2 revisions past the one hosted there. I googled for ForecastFox today and found quite a few references to our extension, mainly in blogs. One of these pointed me to the February issue of Wired [...]

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