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Posted 6 months, 1 week ago at 21:56. 1 comment
The roll-out of nightly l10n updates has been…bumpy. The primary user-visible symptom of this has been that nightly updates for en-US have sometimes been delayed by many hours when compared to when they would have been generated previously.
I hesitate to say that these consequences were unforeseen, but rather that we were initially unsure how/if the various systems we use to generate, store and serve updates would even cope when they had to deal with more than one locale.
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Posted 1 year ago at 15:19. 1 comment
Nothing irritates me more than something that *almost* works.
I recently purchased a Razer ProType keyboard. On the whole, I like the keyboard feel and layout, although their claim of minimalism is somewhat laughable. It is easily the largest thing on my desk right now, and is probably 50% larger than the standard Apple pack-in keyboard. I didn’t buy it for its size though, I bought it for the programmable keys and application-switchable profiles.
e.g. I have one macro key bound to a piece of AppleScript that automagically queues up the entire album for the currently playing iTunes track while I’m in my Desktop, and the same key is also bound to my mount macro when I’m playing WoW.
On the far left-hand side of the keyboard is an innocuous little button named “Home,” that according to the manual is supposed to “allow user to access browser home page.” By “browser,” they of course meant Safari.
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Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 18:36. 1 comment
Inspired by Jesse’s work on TidyBox, I’ve adapted his Greasemonkey script to do the same type of column/row collapsing for the buildbot waterfall.
I’ve gone to the extreme here, minimizing everything and putting the contents into pop-ups. With this script running, I can *almost* fit our entire staging buildbot waterfall onto a single screen. Almost.
The classnames used in the script should be universally applicable to any buildbot installation. Tweak away, if that’s your deal.
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 18:12. 0 comments
I’ve updated the Wow Realm Status extension so that it now properly parses both EU servers and RP-PvP servers. Kev offered me scotch. I told you that would work.
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 13:41. 1 comment
3 years later, I’m still playing WoW. With the recent expansion, we’ve seen a return to lengthy queues and frequent server downtimes as issues are patched. As the father of two small children, I don’t get a lot of time to play, so last night I went looking for a tool that would show me the status of my realm at a glance so I would know whether to even bother trying to log in.
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Current Tunes: Chicane - From Blue To Green | Filed under Firefox, Gaming, Open Web, Software, WoW
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago at 11:32. 0 comments
I’ve added the notes from the Litmus/QAC session directly to the Session Proposal page.
I wasn’t really planning on giving a session, but I was pleased to see it well attended. It was nice to meet Wayne (whose recently picked up the Thunderbird QA torch from Gary), Henrik who has been very active in Bugzilla as of late, and Emily, who has been doing fantastic work testing for Mozilla while working for Sun China over the last few years.
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Current Tunes: Above & Beyond - Trance Around The World 277 - Anhken - 2008-08-01 | Filed under Firefox, Litmus, Mozilla, QA
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago at 19:09. 1 comment
As the old adage goes, when life gives you lemons, you go play disc golf.
Kev, Tracy, and I took a little break from the Firefox Summit and squeezed in a “quick” 27 holes before/during dinner last night. Having not played since…last fall?, I had a fantastic round, putting very well and scoring -1 over 27 holes.
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Despite the rock slide and other unrelated snafus, the Summit itself is going very well. You can follow along using our stream of consciousness mash-up. If nothing else, it’s fun to witness the varying degrees of aplomb that people are exhibiting in the face of adversity.
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago at 12:01. 4 comments
This post is primarily directed at my family, friends, and anyone who I’ve helped to install Firefox over the years. Hopefully my co-workers already know how awesome we are.
A new version of Firefox is coming out on Tuesday. Casual internet users may be asking themselves, “I already have a web browser. Why should I update to Firefox 3?” There’s lots of great stuff in Firefox 3, but several of the new features bear special highlighting for casual users:
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Current Tunes: Casual, Rock Marciano, Vordual Mega, & Tragedy Khadafi - Think Differently | Filed under Build/Release, Family, Firefox, Friends, Mozilla, Software
Posted 3 years, 9 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.
Current Tunes: Ecuador vs. Costa Rica | Filed under Firefox, Football
Posted 4 years, 1 month ago at 13:16. 1 comment
Sometime back in the 1.0.x days, Flash stopped working in Firefox on my Linux box. Well, that’s not entirely accurate, I was still getting audio, but no video was being displayed. Largely I didn’t care, it just saved me the trouble of installing Flashblock.
My recent discovery of Pandora made me anxious to finally find a solution, since the Pandora front-end is entirely Flash-based. After searching for a good while, I came across this article which identified the culprit as Adblock. Disabling Adblock got Flash working again. If I had known in advance that Adblock was the culprit, it would have been quite easy to find references to the problem, but starting with just “linux+firefox+flash+video+no+workee” was a bit of a slog.
In fairness to Adblock, I tried updating to the latest version of the extension afterward, and Flash continues to work. I’m now running Adblock “v.5 d3 * nightly 42″ (what kind of version number is that?) and Flash plugin version 7.0 r61 on Linux without any issues. Yay!
Current Tunes: Seal - The Beginning (Round the UnderGround Mix), courtesy of Pandora | Filed under Firefox, Music
