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The vision of Firefox Support

Amen, brother David!

2008 08 28 Chris Ilias Firefox Comments (3)

Thank you Dan Portillo

The 2008 Firefox+ Summit has clearly been a very well organized summit; and I feel bad for Dan, who has obviously been working very hard to accommodate over 300 people, despite the landslide. I just want to say a big thank you to Dan for all his hard work. I’ve had a fantastic time so [...]

2008 07 30 Chris Ilias Comments (1)

How to remove the shadow from Mac screenshots

Mac users may have noticed that whenever you take a screenshot of a window on Leopard, the shadow that surrounds the window is also included. If you don’t want screen captures to include the shadow, you can set Leopard not to include it. Open the Terminal application. Type the following command, and press Enter: defaults [...]

2008 07 18 Chris Ilias Personal Comments (6)

Video of Firefox 3 getting the Colbert bump

Here’s a link to a video of the full interview.

2008 06 19 Chris Ilias Firefox Comments (3)

Did Firefox 3 get the Colbert bump?

On the night of the Firefox 3 release, Jason Barnabe mentioned on IRC that Stephen Colbert gave Firefox the Colbert bump! It was apparently during an interview with Jonathan Zittrain. I’m sure there will be a video of this on the web, so keep your eyes open for it, as well as any reruns on [...]

2008 06 18 Chris Ilias Firefox Comments (3)

Video is worth a million words

Face it. Making screencasts is the cool thing to do now. Everyone is doing it. You can do it too. The Firefox Screencast Contest ends this Sunday.

2008 06 11 Chris Ilias Firefox Comments Off

Hierarchical to-do lists

If bug 194863 is fixed, I’m swtiching to Mozilla Calendar. I’ve been wanting task management software for Mac that supports hierarchical to-do lists for ages.

2008 04 07 Chris Ilias Netscape Comments Off

Any lost bookmarks in Firefox 3?

One of the issues Firefox 3 is supposed to fix is the issue of some users losing their bookmarks. So I’m just wondering, out of all the people using the Firefox 3 Betas, have any lost their bookmarks?

2008 03 23 Chris Ilias Firefox Comments (49)

Filter news based on any header

A long awaited feature was landed on the Thunderbird trunk last night. It is the ability to filter newsgroup messages based on any header. You can test it by downloading and using the latest Thunderbird trunk builds. Thanks to Joshua Cranmer for creating the patch.

2008 02 07 Chris Ilias Thunderbird Comments (2)

Firefox featured on CBC news Toronto

When channel surfing, I landed on a station, in which the Mozilla.com web site was prominently featured on a computer screen, while the guy sitting in front of it, was just finishing a news feature. I only caught the last sentence, “CBC news, Toronto.” That’s all I needed. I went to the CBC Toronto web [...]

2008 02 01 Chris Ilias Firefox Comments (6)