Get your football: Joga.com extension is live
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago at 08:51. 1 comment
For football fans who don’t have a T.V. in their office, allow me to recommend the Joga.com companion, a Firefox extension that allows you to follow all of the ongoing World Cup action from your desktop in near-real time. Everyone at Mozilla has been working hard to get this out as close to the start of the World Cup as possible, although some of us have just been testing the extension and reaping the benefits of having it installed, rather than actually doing any of the heavy lifting.
I do have one piece of configuration advice to impart though. When installed, the extension changes your browser chrome to something more patriotic and supportive of your home country’s football squad, and it decides what this should be based on the locale of your browser. In this part of the world, that locale is going to be en-US, or U.S. English, more often than not. I was a little surprised to see my browser taken over by the Stars-n-Stripes after installing the extension for the first time. Luckily, there’s a little flag icon in the bottom status bar that you can use to change your favorite team, and hence, browser chrome. I’ve got mine set to Netherlands right now for the aforementioned reason.
I’d actually suggested to the engineers — who are a bunch of great guys — that they make the default en-US locale the “no theme” since the majority of football fans in North America are probably not actually cheering for the US team, but the team of their home country. Ah, the wonders of immigration friendly (or until-recently immigration friendly) nations!