Mozilla
Firebot Fixes…
I’ve made a few changes to firebot, the IRC bot that gives bugzilla bug information for Devs/QA/users in #firefox and #thunderbird tonight. * Added kick handling, auto-rejoins channel when kicked. * Added invite handling, bot can join a channel when invited. * Added ping to test if hte bot is alive. just say firebot: ping […]
What happened to Mozilla Update?
Well, its obvious by now, things haven’t exactly gone as planned with Mozilla Update Beta. While it’s online, it’s not exactly operating as designed, with new submissions/updates having not been processed for one month now. This, of course, rumors of a situation or conflict within Mozilla Update, Its even been on MozillaZine, though in a […]
Update-Beta Preview Screenshots
A sneak peek at what’s coming soon to http://update-beta.mozilla.org.
Netscape Browser = Firefox + IE + WTF?
Meet Netscape Browser… Now that you’ve been scared by the initial look… I’ll give you a minute to recover and visit the bathroom if needed……… Supposedly this is based on Firefox 0.9.3, which IMO was the worst Firefox milestone, pre-release or not. Though you can’t tell that Firefox is burried in there, behind the UI […]
Moving Spaces…
So, those of you who watch bugzilla closely have definitely noticed alot of changes lately. The new Core, Toolkit and Mozilla App Suite products for example, and alot of moving bugs. Update has also moved, from a pairing of two components in Webtools and Mozilla.org it is now its own Product “Update”. For those filing […]
A Call for Extension/Theme Testing Help for Update.Mozilla.org
Update.mozilla.org is currently managed by a small group of editors, they handle the everyday operations, including, most importantly, adding/updating new extension and themes as they’re released and we get notification of them via bugzilla. Due to life constraints though, these relatively few editors, there’s 4 plus myself, are currently unable to handle the load of […]
New Mozilla.org Website / Update Update
Mozilla.org launched its new look.. which I must say is a big improvement over the previous. So congrats to Steven Garrity / silverorange and all the people who took part in that. Update.Mozilla.org Update Many people have expressed alot of views, to put it diplomatically over update.mozilla.org’s current state. So, briefly i’m going to try […]
Strange Blocking Bug
Well, this has to be the weirdest bug I’ve been apart of. It’s Bug 249787 which is about update.mozilla.org not being browsable in Internet Explorer. Strangely enough though, it’s a blocking-aviary1.0RC1+ bug.. Go figure. Guess I can’t say I have no blocking bugs anymore.
Ways to Improve Mozilla’s Extension Pages
I’ve been recently paying more attention to the extensions-side of the Firefox project. Mozilla.org does not maintain a website for extensions, as most are third-party developed. A lot of extensions are mozdev.org projects, and the MozillaZine forums provide some user-to-user support for help and troubleshooting. There are two sources that are trusted, in general for […]
