October 27, 2006
Posted by beltzner
Apparently, people loves them some Firefox. Within 24 hours of the official launch on Tuesday, there were over 2 million people using Firefox 2, and we were seeing a peak rate of more than 30 downloads _per second_ from [our website][1].
I’ve been thinking a lot about the things that make Firefox popular. It’s obviously more [...]
October 24, 2006
Posted by beltzner
I want you to put on your imagination cap and imagine the following situation:
I have something that interests you. Let’s call it a “wibble”. It’s a largish and expensive something, and you’re likely not the only one interested in buying it, and I have the only one that’s *exactly* like it. So I offer to [...]
October 23, 2006
Posted by beltzner
Sometimes I don’t understand people. [Ars Technica][1], [Slashdot][2], [The Register][3] and other popular technology reporting websites all announced how Mozilla “silently posted” Firefox 2 a day earlier than expected. Some even mentioned how odd it was that there was no announcement on the [mozilla.com][4] website.
None, however, mentioned that _this is exactly how every milestone release [...]
October 3, 2006
Posted by beltzner
Mike Connor found out that Pocket Mac Pro 4.0 is [now available at BlackBerry's software download site][pm4]. He, Mike Shaver and I have long suffered through Pocket Mac Pro 3.whatever’s absolute failure to offer any value in terms of data synchronization, which, as you might guess, is a pretty _core_ value to carrying around a [...]
October 2, 2006
Posted by beltzner
As announced at today’s Mozilla Project meeting, I’m happy to welcome [Alex Faaborg][1] to our motley crew here at Mozilla. I met Alex after a [presentation][2] he made at CHI 2006 in Montreal, and am quite thrilled to have him join our team.
Alex is going to be helping us continue to develop perhaps the most [...]
