Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation, has released a draft version of the Mozilla Manifesto, a declaration of principles and ways the Mozilla project as a whole follows and the goals it pursues. Part of the Mozilla Manifesto are 10 Principles that Mozilla “…believes are critical for the Internet to continue to benefit the public good as well as commercial aspects of life.” I am not going to list or discuss all 10 of the principles. However, #5 really stood out: “Individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences on the Internet.” I strongly believe…
February 14, 2007
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For some odd reason there was a Gecko 1.9/Grand Paradiso meeting on Tuesday (2007/02/13). In the meeting notes there is a brief mention that the Fx 3 developers are targeting (still have some bugs to work out) to have Places in place for the Alpha 3 release due out sometime next month. Permalink
[Part 1][Part 2][Part 3][Part 3.5][Part 4][Part 4.5] This is part 3 of my multi-part series on the Firefox Add-ons Overhaul. At the bottom of the Part 2 entry I had added this update: Update: The “preview” site is a work in progress and has actually been up (and down) for several weeks. The current extension list is NOT all inclusive, more may be added prior to the final release. Since this post, the preview site has been updated and nearly all the extensions I had mentioned prior as being removed/missing are now included in the preview site. They have also…
[digg=http://digg.com/software/CoLT_Copying_a_Link_as_Link] Back in October I touched briefly on my favorite and by far most used extension, CoLT (Copy Link Text). Since then I have found myself using it even more and have even taken advantage of the custom styles option. In the beginning I used CoLT mainly for copying entire (Text AND Links) HTML links. All I had to do was right-click (no need to highlight) the link I wanted to copy and selected from the context menu, ‘Copy Link Text & Locations As’ followed by ‘HTML Link’ from the sub menu. The extension automatically generated the HTML code for…