samedi 1 mars 2008

A few random things about Netscape, 1994-2008

Today, Netscape has stopped providing their users with updates to their browser. The Netscape Archive page says: Given AOL's current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it's the right time to end development of Netscape  […]

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vendredi 29 février 2008

Mike Schroepfer's deepest interview

Mike Schrep Schroepfer is the VP of Engineering at Mozilla. Mike was in Brussels at Fosdem 08 and shared with the community very interesting information about Firefox 3 adoption (steadily climbing), the countries where people are using Firefox (basically: everywhere on Earth!), and Mozilla's 10th  […]

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Firefox 3 Performance and Apple hidden APIs

My colleague Vlad has just found the OS X Turbo Button that enables Firefox 3 to run on Leopard as fast as it should. Like Vlad puts it in the comments of his article, Without this fix, Firefox was essentially spending much of its time waiting to be allowed to draw, instead of being able to do other  […]

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mercredi 27 février 2008

Fosdem 08 wrap up

Fosdem '08 is over. Like every year, Mozilla volunteers gather in Brussels and spend 2 days working together and socializing. This year's edition was the best edition ever. Everything was here to make this a perfect event: a packed schedule, a room full of contributors[1], loads of fun, Belgian  […]

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lundi 25 février 2008

Mozilla's 10th anniversary in Brussels

I'm a bit late blogging about this as we were having a developer meeting this weekend, but Mozillazine.org has the scoop: On February 23rd, 1998, Netscape announced Mozilla.org. Around a hundred Mozilla contributors gathered in Brussels to celebrate the event[1]. I vividly remember this period of  […]

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Groklaw about Mozilla

During Fosdem this weekend, I had the great pleasure and honor of being interviewed by Sean Daly of Groklaw.net[1]. 40 minutes of great questions (his) and embarrassing fillers like "you know" (32 times if I count well). Sean has done a lot of work to transcribe my hesitations, but you  […]

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mardi 19 février 2008

Mitchell Baker's keynote at the French Senate (Audio)

On February 14, 2008, Mitchell was in Paris, giving a keynote speech at the French Senate, for the Netxplorateur Forum. Mitchell spoke for 45 minutes without any slides, and was very inspiring in giving insight on how the Mozilla project works. I recorded the session using my camera, but thought  […]

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vendredi 15 février 2008

Mitchell Baker in Europe

Mitchell Baker interviewed by LCI TV at the French Senate Jane wrote about it: Mitchell Baker was in Europe this week, particularly London (UK), Munich (Germany) and then Paris (France). Mitchell has been very busy in visiting 3 countries in 4 days, doing meetings with the press (dailies, TV and  […]

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