Christopher Blizzard

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Month: November, 2007

Firefox 3 beta 1

Firefox 3 Beta 1 is available for download. Packed with new features, but carefully avoiding overwhelming users with complexity, this is a huge release for us and the Mozilla community. Awesomebar, new mac theme (as an add-on), Places and one click bookmarking, progress on a new Linux theme, improved SSL identity reporting, improved [...]

different approaches

There’s been a story that’s been echoing around this chamber we call the Internet that basically accuses Mozilla of ignoring 80% of our bugs in run-up to the release of Firefox 3. This is, of course, a deep misinterpretation of what was posted and other people have said a lot on this topic. [...]

day number one

Today was my first full day of employment at the Mozilla Corporation. I’m of two minds right now: first, it’s exhilarating to be starting a new job. You never know exactly what it’s going to be like, even though you have mapped out a set of goals and ideas of what you’re role [...]

memory usage in firefox and gecko

Update: If you got here because you just read an article about this issue, maybe you should just go read Stuart’s most recent post instead of this one.

For a long time there have been a lot of complaints about the memory usage in Firefox and anything else that used the Gecko engine. And looking [...]

awesome, dennis!

Great news that Dennis Gilmore will be joining the OLPC team to help them out with builds. He will be a real asset to the team. His experience with the infrastructure inside of Fedora will really help with the OLPC team and various countries take advantage of everything that Fedora and that community [...]