lundi 25 août 2008

Every day is an opportunity for Mozilla to impress me

10 years after its launch, Mozilla keeps impressing me day after day, in many different ways. Let me give you two very different examples: Localizing something in 44 languages in less than four days We have decided recently to trigger the major update from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 for people who have  […]

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dimanche 10 août 2008

Once an evangelist...

With Firefox 3 recently released, with its market share higher than 30% in Europe, it's easy to forget that seven years ago, things were really different: The Mozilla future was quite gloomy. I remember discussions inside Netscape were many people thought that killing Mozilla was the best option,  […]

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vendredi 25 juillet 2008

Firefox 3 in news stands: "The best browser of the world

Pascal and a friend of mine have seen an ad on TV saying "In Micro-Hebdo this week, we'll discuss the best browser of the world", with the cover below. MicroHebdo cover: Firefox 3, the best browser in the world! Pascal bought the issue, are there are no less than 8 pages on Firefox!  […]

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jeudi 24 juillet 2008

Why "Associated data" is important, and what should Mozilla do about it

Quoting Mitchell Baker, thinking about data: Our online lives are generating increasing data about us as individuals and about how groups of people are using the Internet. At the dawn of the World Wide Web 15 years ago people “surfed” to websites and viewed information. Today Internet life is more  […]

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mercredi 23 juillet 2008

The Firefox computer different shapes and sizes

The recent Firefox tablet post over at TechCrunch has caused quite some stir in the blogosphere. Truth is I have with me several "Firefox computers". I'll skip the obvious: my laptop (a MacBook Pro) is a Firefox computer! Firefox is the most important app for me and many of my friends. But  […]

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mardi 22 juillet 2008

Challenges for the Mozilla project

I recently compared the Mozilla project's state 5 years ago with today, and cried Victory. I reckon I declared victory in a provocative way, as I must say. Of course, a lot has been achieved during the past 10 years, but Mozilla is now facing another set of challenges. Here is an attempt to list  […]

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mercredi 16 juillet 2008

Mozilla Foundation turns 5, and I declare Victory

According to these documents, Mozilla Foundation was incorporated on July 14th, 2003. It's been five years. Five years that come on top of the five years under Netscape's structure. Five years during which the community has experienced pretty much all the range of possible emotions, from  […]

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vendredi 27 juin 2008

Big questions

There have been recently a couple of posts here and there that tickle my mind, but I'm going on vacations tomorrow and my brain is too tired to bring something interesting to the conversation. So I'm going the easy way by posting links to these articles hoping that I'll be able to revisit these  […]

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