Firefox

My Favourite Addons

JasonMR — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:32:40 -0500

The following is a list of my favourite addons, which I have installed on all my computers, ordered according to the categories found on the Official Firefox Addons page.

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Firefox

JasonMR — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:25:14 -0500

Firefox is my browser of choice, not only because it is fast and secure, but mostly because of the vast collection of addons, which allow me turn my browser into a multi-purpose tool.

Firefox [0]

JasonMR — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:18:14 -0500

Go Firefox - IE Warning

JasonMR — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:21:37 -0500

Friends don't let friends use IE!

A Fire Farting Mongrel

JasonMR — Tue, 08 May 2007 03:05:31 -0500

The Japanese Firefox community has developed a new mascot, and set up its own site.

I can see where the inspiration comes from (Manga cult), but the execution is laughable. The one displayed in the top right hand corner of the site, looks like a hamster on fire, who thinks a hard hat turns it into a fire fighter. While most of the other images look like a mongrel farting flames.

My harsh judgement isn't due to me being tired of the manga fashion. While the whole mascot is very simple, in contrasting block colours, the fire suddenly sports fading colours, a gradient of red and yellow. And then there is the heavy black outline, totally absent from the fire-tail, making it seem detached, and why I'm perceiving the stink of fiery farts.

A fire farting mongrel and a burning hamster.
What do you think, or rather see?

Quite a downgrade from the great work done by Jon Hicks, which resulted in the current Firefox logo and branding.

Tricky Bug

JasonMR — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:20:29 -0600

Go to Wikipedia and see for yourself! This bug creeps up on multiple Wikipedia articles. Only that I noticed this a while back, while looking up Pareto Index.

I've spent more time trying to pin-point this bug, then it took me to create the above animation. All I know is that it only occurs with Firefox (both 1.5 and 2.0), and is related with Wikipedias monobook main style sheet.