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As far as mouse types go you tend to find 2 different styles (lets ignore wired mice for now which are the spawn of the devil).

I’ll be honest, this post isn’t about Mozilla or even really anything Mozilla related (beyond the fact that it is about a poor web application).

You may have noticed many of the Firefox team starting to blog progress reports on Fridays.

Thanks to the hard work of Nick Thomas and Lukas Blakk, today I can announce the availability of two new official releases of the XULRunner runtime and SDKs.

A question I have been hearing quite a bit on IRC since Firefox 3.5 was released.

While many of you were out blowing things up over the weekend I spent a few days varying between getting quite a bit done and banging my head against my desk in frustration.

This is mainly of interest to add-on and application developers and I should stress from the outset that this is talking about changes in Gecko 1.9.2 which will first be released in whatever version of Firefox comes in 6-12 months time.

Add-on developers face a bit of a challenge when it comes to helping users get the most out of their add-ons.

Not so long ago Matt Mullenweg talked to the Mozilla employees about WordPress and its community.

I’m afraid to say that I’m pretty bad when it comes to the political process.

This is really not the ideal set of interactions between the extension manager and its related components.

One of the biggest requested items I see in the add-ons newsgroups and IRC channel is from developers asking how to perform some work when their add-on is installed or uninstalled.

Some time ago (wow was it really 5 months!)

Just as I’ve made some 1.9.1b3 builds I’ve spun some builds based on the latest trunk.

In the process of switching from CVS to Mercurial (and behind the scenes Tinderbox to Buildbot), quite a lot of Mozilla’s build and release systems have had to be updated.

Firefox does a fair number of things in the background to help keep things up to date.

This weekend is FOSDEM 2009 and I’m actually managing to attend this year.

I don’t like to think of myself as a hoarder, but I am.

I outed myself last night on IRC as a non-Thunderbird user and dmose asked me why.

I’ve generated a new database for my interface listing webapp so you can now see the current state of the 1.9.1b3pre and 1.9.2a1pre platforms.

For a long time now there have been web applications mirroring pretty much all the applications I use locally, email, calendar, spreadsheets, etc.

It wasn’t long ago that I was responsible for developing and maintaining a large number of websites.

I’ve just landed a fix to a bug that has irritated me ever since page zoom started getting remembered for sites.

So let’s pretend I am in a bad place and looking to kill myself through an overdose of pills.

That pesky JOEDREW!

In no particular order: Celebrated the birth of friends’ children.

It’s always fun phoning my mobile phone company.

One of the nice new features in the fast evolving HTML 5 spec is support for specific video and audio tags, replacing the more generic object and embed tags that have been used in the past.

Flame fractals are even less “designed” than the more traditional fractals based on complex equations.

A friend asked the other days what was up with all the fractals on my site and it reminded me that I’ve neither mentioned them in my blog or even sat down and created any for a while, so I thought I’d remedy that, especially since I now have the personal…

I thought it would be amusing to look at some of the numbers associated with my travel home from San Francisco.

Apparently I’ve been talking a little too much about interfaces lately Word cloud

I’m normally pretty happy to be getting home after a trip to the States.

I’ve just rolled out a small update to the interface cross reference, nothing major, just fixing a few bugs and I’ve put up what looks like the final set of interfaces for 1.9.1b2.

I forgot to add to my last post some information about what I currently had in mind to improve about the API reference I’ve been working on.

Since my first announcement about my little api reference tool I’ve slowly been working on updates to make it more useful and easier to navigate around.

For some time now I’ve been throwing around ideas for new features that we may want for the add-ons manager.

Faaborg has started a discussion on the newsgroups on the relative importance of polish and blocker bugs (I’d provide a link bug Google Groups seems to be refusing to acknowledge existence of the post).

I started a small discussion on the newsgroups the other day wondering about the numbers of API changes that had landed on trunk since 1.9.0.

For a while now I’ve been in a bit of a rut.

Dear web (I’m not going to insult you and call you lazy like some people I’d mention), Why is it that even if I’m just adding a tag to a wordpress post it deems it necessary to update the date of the post causing places like planet to republish the post?

So as I’ve said before I’m planning on moving somewhere new.

I’ve known for a while that I’m not terribly good at varying the music I listen to.

Looks like I can finally say that my body clock is fully switched back to UK time.

At my old house I used to have cable TV.

Tab Sidebar is probably my favourite extension that I’ve created.

Finally back home after my two weeks in North America.

I guess I’ve always disliked the idea of putting my personal thoughts onto my blog.

I’m going to be starting to post some more personal posts to my blog.