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Firefox product placements

Over the past few years, I’ve noticed that I’ve developed a habbit: Whenever I see a browser in the media, be it television shows, commercials, screenshots on web sites, I automatically check to see what browser and OS is being used.

Very often, Firefox is the browser being used. Today, on CNN.com, I saw another instance.

It’s a little hard to tell, but there’s a Firefox icon in the bottom left of the dock, the tab has a favicon, and the search bar has a favicon. Ergo, that’s Firefox, not Safari. CNN used to use Netscape 7 in their screenshots. (Although, that could have been because of the AOL-Time Warner umbrella.)

Years ago, the Mozilla Suite was on the Simpsons:

If it hasn’t already been started, it would be cool if we had a log of all instances Firefox has appeared in the media.

2008 10 05 Chris Ilias Firefox
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Why I want a Support logo

As Tara bloggd, she and David are working on a logo for the Support project, and want input about how others define the Support project. Getting a Firefox Support logo is something I’ve wanted for a long while. Not necessarily to establish an identity for the web site, but because it lays the foundation for some cooler stuff. Namely, a Firefox Support search plugin.

Imagine this: A Firefox user is having a problem with Firefox, or just has a question about how to use Firefox. Instead of visiting support.mozilla.com, he/she just calls up the search plugin in the search bar, and types the question (or put it in the Help menu).

In order for that to happen, we need a favicon.
In order for that to happen, we need a logo.

For what it’s worth, there’s already an unofficial search plugin on mycroft.

2008 09 24 Chris Ilias Firefox
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The vision of Firefox Support

Amen, brother David!

2008 08 28 Chris Ilias Firefox
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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 far.

2008 07 30 Chris Ilias Mozilla Comments (1) Permalink

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.

  1. Open the Terminal application.
  2. Type the following command, and press Enter:
    defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true && killall SystemUIServer

You can set it back to normal with the following command:
defaults delete com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow && killall SystemUIServer

2008 07 18 Chris Ilias Mozilla
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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
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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 TV tomorrow.

2008 06 18 Chris Ilias Firefox
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Thanks Gmail for giving me more spam

Google has decided that if someone sends an email to a Gmail address that is the same as yours, except for a period or few, it was meant for you; and they relay it to your mailbox.

In other words, if I have an address cilias@gmail.com (which I do not), and someone sends a message to c.ilias@gmail.com (or cil.ias or cili.as or ci.lias or cilia.s or c.i.l.i.a.s, etc.), and none of that Gmail address does not exist, the message will arrive in my cilias@gmail.com account.

All this does is increase my spam.

2008 06 15 Chris Ilias Personal Comments (7) Permalink

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
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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 Mozilla
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