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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
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Cloud computing vs. Web 2.0

I’ve been asking around, and I still can’t get answer to this question:

What is the difference between cloud computing and Web 2.0?

2008 02 26 Chris Ilias Personal Comments (13) Permalink

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 Mozilla
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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 site, and viewed today’s news cast (at Six). It was a full feature on Firefox, including footage of both Senaca and the Mozilla Toronto office, as well as many interviews, including our man Shaver.

The video is on the CBC web site. The Firefox bit is around the 38:00 mark. I’ll look around for a video of just the feature on Firefox.

UPDATE: Found it on Google Video.

2008 02 01 Chris Ilias Firefox
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149 reviews without even trying it

Yesterday, on the Future Shop web site, Macbook Air had received 149 reviews, with an average rating of 2.7 out of 5.0. The funny thing: Apple only started shipping it last night. :)

2008 01 31 Chris Ilias Personal Comments (3) Permalink

Re-organizing mozilla.org/support

Now that the “Support” link on Mozilla.com is pointing to support.mozilla.com, a couple of questions come up about www.mozilla.org/support/.

Will it still exist? Yes.

What should we do with it?
That has been discussed  a bit in bug 353478. The plan is to section it by product (like the downloads page or the products page), with each product having one link to its corresponding support site. It’s not too late to disagree with that plan.

Unfortunately, both Reed and I are swamped; so if anyone wants to take on that bug, we’d love you forever and ever.

2008 01 11 Chris Ilias Mozilla Comments Off Permalink

Attention Netscape users

So your browser is no longer being developed; and you’ve been told to try Mozilla Firefox. But the Import Wizard in Firefox does not list Netscape 9!

Luckily, the Firefox Support knowledge base has an article for importing from Netscape…
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Importing+from+Netscape

(If you’d like to improve the article, look at our Improving articles document.)

2007 12 30 Chris Ilias Firefox
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Thank you Nelson Ko

Earlier this week, Nelson Ko applied some patches to the support.mozilla.com TikiWiki system, which have greatly improved our whole contributor/review process.

  • All edits now go through a staging copy.
  • There is an auto-generated list of all articles not the same as the staging copy.
  • Approving an edit is as easy as clicking on a link.
  • The contributor’s name is then automatically added to the live version (giving credit where credit is due).
  • We can now have hidden article tags (possible tag: NeedsMacInfo)
  • The anchor issue posted on the Firefox Support blog is now fixed.
    • Correct syntax: ((article name|#anchor name|text being linked))
  • and more.

This post is my BIG thank you to Nelson. The Firefox Support web site as been greatly improved.

2007 12 12 Chris Ilias Firefox
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For those wanting to localize the Firefox Support KB

Unfortunately, JT’s blog does not allow posting without a Google account; so I’m posting this here.

On JT’s blog Cédric commented about the lack of localization currently on the Firefox Support knowledge Base. In order to ensure a level of consistency and quality, the growth of the KB has been mostly a controlled growth. Upon reviewing articles, I noticed that quite a few of the articles that needed major revisions, were already localized. It doesn’t really make sense (to me at least) to start localizing, without a solid en-US base.

We now have around 75 articles that have been reviewed, and deemed ready to go live. Even after that, I can’t review articles written in a language I don’t understand. We’re going to need l10n leaders to take on reviewer roles.

Anyone wanting to get more involved, please feel free to speak up in the mozilla.support.planning newsgroup.

2007 09 22 Chris Ilias Firefox
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No drummer better than Neil Peart

C’mon; all of us Rush fans have done this at least once. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ-l6ErEazI

2007 09 13 Chris Ilias Personal Comments (1) Permalink