Acts of Volition

I use a few Firefox extensions that I thought might be useful to others. Here’s a quick overview of the extensions I use and why I like them.  •  Linky  •  I’ve written about Linky before, and I still use it regularly. Linky is a simple extension that adds the ability to open a group of links in …

Here’s a quick idea I had while chatting with someone in Australia via instant-messaging this morning.  •  I would like to see a plugin/extension for Gaim (or any other instant messaging application, but especially Gaim, since it’s the one I use) that showed the local time zone of the person … read more »

I wrote last year about a simple marvel of real-world standards when a paint-roller handle broke and we were able to screw in a broom handle into the same socket (fantastic!).  •  I was amused and amazed at lunch the other day by my colleague Peter Rukavina with another simple display of standards …

When looking for help in creating an improved set of sounds for the open-source instant messaging application, Gaim, I turned to a virtual rock star. The ironically named Brad Sucks was a great help and came back with a great set of sounds.  •  Here, for contrast, are the previous set of Gaim …

Yesterday’s Firefox launch garnered a lot of press. I noticed a peculiar pattern emerging on some of the news sites. There seems to be a whole weird underworld of hastily-photoshopped graphics for news sites.  •  Here is a collection of some images from some Firefox 1.0 launch news articles I … read more »

It is 4:51AM Atlantic time and I am sitting in bed with my laptop on my lap. One minute ago, Ben Goodger gave me the final word and I made this CVS commit to the mozilla.org website:  •  “steven%silverorange.com 2004-11-09 00:50  •  People of Earth, I give you Firefox 1.0”  •  It’s been a long … read more »

Firefox 1.0: Coming Tuesday November 9, 2004  •  (full-size mozilla.org screenshot, for the ages)

Download a time-lapse version of Jakub Steiner’s illustrating  •  Jakub Steiner is an artist that works on Linux icons and interfaces at Novell. He is responsible for much of the look and feel of the Gnome icon set.  •  This week, he posted a fascinating movie of his illustration process. He was …

When I first heard of the idea for the latest community campaign to help promote Firefox, I was a little skeptical. The idea was (is) to ask for donations of $30 from people. With the money, they will buy an ad (hopefully full page) in the New York Times about the 1.0 release of Firefox (coming …