Mozilla Launches Open Badges; Creates an Educational and Skill Currency
Mozilla recently unveiled a project that they have been working on for over a year and a half called Open Badges. The concept is built around people being able to gain recognition for skills that they earn on the web, anywhere on the web. Ideally an individual will be able to acquire virtually any skill on any […]
Massive Java Update available you should apply it
And you should do this update; Oracle has finally gotten around to pushing a massive 50 vulnerability fixing update to Java. The bad part is that most of us have decoupled Java from our browsers, and I am wondering if this is too little too late. With Mozilla (Firefox) dropping Java support from its browser […]
Firefox Upgrade: Who Are You Kidding, Mozilla?
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, than this is a 2000-word post. (Highlights mine). Step 1: Step 2: Do they think it’s funny?
Mozilla Is Too Big To Fail
Larry Dignan at ZDNetmakes an important point about the financial future of Mozilla Foundation. In his post, he points to Mozilla’s over reliance on Google and wonders if it is good for its future. The financial for 2008 didn’t show any downward trend. Rather, they showed a consolidated revenue of $78.6 million, up 5 percent […]
The One Huge Issue That Is Going To Kill Tag-based Reading Systems
Louis Gray pointed out a new reading system yesterday called Lazyfeed, and overall I am pretty happy with it, but like all tag based reading systems, spammers and other miscreants have so corrupted the general tag base to get their message in front of people that tag based systems need something else to make sure […]
Firefox 3.5 Dowload Day Progress – Google Gears, Mozilla Prism Missed Launch
Download Day for Firefox 3.5 is decidedly more understated than 3.0 was. A lot less hype prior to the release, no spectacular outages, and a respectable 1M+ dowloads so far, which is nice, but way behind Firefox 3.0’s Guiness Record. Blog visitor stats are very biased metrics, they tend to lean towards the “new and […]
Firefox Add-On Site Down: How to Check For Outages
If you’re about to install a Firefox extension, you’re out of luck: The Mozilla add-on site is down. Of course sometimes it’s not the destination, but your connection – so how can you know? A very appropriately named site: downforeveryoneorjustme comes to your rescue: The site will quickly tell you if you have a problem, […]
Does Firefox Generate Bogus Crash Reports?
Crashes are bad, reporting them is good: it helps developers fix the issues. So far so good, but lately the Mozilla Crash Reporter appears to be a bit overzelous: it keeps on reporting crashes when there are none. A few times a day it pops up after what appears to be an ordinary shutdown: i.e. […]
