Fibonacci Firefox September 13, 2006
Firefox user interface designer Mike Beltzner said “Firefox is all about an intuitive and natural user interface, and the Fibonacci sequence is a perfect expression of nature’s expression of order and beauty… @
Firefox 2 August 31, 2006
Finally, the long-overdue bon echo is in da house… GET IT
Firefox 2 Beta 2 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Firefox 2 Beta 2 is intended for Web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Firefox 1.x should not use Firefox 2 Beta 2 and expect all of their extensions and plugins to work properly.
The new browser, formerly known as Bon Echo, features several improvements over the current version of Firefox (1.5.x). This time around, we get glowing buttons in the user interface, a scrollable tab bar, a close tab button on each individual tab and improved RSS subscription options. Whenever you click on an RSS feed, you can choose between adding it to a desktop reader, saving it as a Live Bookmark, or adding it to a web-based reader. Google Reader, Bloglines and MyYahoo are there by default, but you can add your own service… @
There are also some new features that were added (presumably) to directly compete with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, the most notable ones built-in phishing protection and an integrated spell-checker for text forms. I can confirm that the spell-checker works like a charm (I’m using Beta 2 to post this review… @
Firefox Zealotry August 3, 2006
When you really care about an idea, it’s easy to come off as a nutcase. It is vital to our cause that we not alienate civilians. This is not so important to them as it should be, but we have to respect that.
Christian posted:
“The religious language may be in jest, but the fact that Firefox “evangelism” has become like unto a religion ought to bother the Mozilla crew, and I’m disappointed to see Asa perpetuate the problem. Don’t love software - it can’t love you back. Recommend Firefox as a good alternative (on Win32, at least), but please don’t start using quasi-religious language, even if it is in jest; it does nothing to help the MoFo’s image.”
I posted:
You’re 1000% right. If we become dismissable as “fanatics”, we will be.
While Firefox and the whole opensource movement inspire PASSION, let’s be careful to divert that passion ALWAYS into logical arguments… more
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