Category Archives: Mozilla
Visit to the Mozilla Europe office in Paris
I’m in Paris for the LibreOffice conference, but today after a random talk with a guy that had a Mozilla badge/pin, I found myself in a tour to the Mozilla Europe office (which is also in Paris). Thank you random … Continue reading
Filed under Mozilla
Happy 10th b-day bug #98160
Happy 10th birthday Mozilla bug #98160, I hope you won’t make it to your 11th, but who knows…I hope the same for your “younger” brothers bug #166240 which is only 9 years old. Many thanks for all the people who … Continue reading
Filed under Free software applications, i18n & l10n, Mozilla
The Mozilla Inn
Hello planet Mozilla. For my first post appearing in the planet I’d like to write about a recent community aspect I experienced, the rest will probably be more technical. While we have some great volunteers participating in Mozilla, there’s aren’t … Continue reading
Filed under Israeli Community, Mozilla
FireGPG
FireGPG is an extension that provides GPG encryption and decryption options for Firefox. It was discontinued a year ago, and didn’t support Firefox 4.0 due to changes it introduced. I was happy to see that the source is still available … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Free software applications, Mozilla
Mozilla Israel stand @ August Penguin 2009
As part of August Penguin 2009, Mozilla Israel members Tomer Cohen and Tsahi Asher had a stand for promoting Firefox, web standards and other free software from Mozilla. The stand was crowded during most of the conference with people coming … Continue reading
Filed under Israeli Community, Mozilla, Proud to use free software
vendor lock-in in Windows Live?
My university is forcing it’s students to have an account with Windows Live email service in order to get the university announcements/updates. Today I noticed a very strange behavior, in certain situations the website doesn’t let you configure email forward … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Mozilla, Proprietary software
Why ubuntu sucks in keeping the distribution in good shape?
Tomer writes about Why ubuntu sucks in keeping the distribution in good shape?, which is related to posts I wrote at the past about Why does Ubuntu puts Firefox translation in gnome’s language pack ? and The disadvantage of language … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Mozilla, Ubuntu
Will the Knesset install Firefox on its computers?
In a letter to the chairman of the Knesset (the Israeli parliament), Ilan Gilon asks why the Knesset’s computing unit refuses to install free software (mainly Firefox). I’m quite interested to see the answer… (: The question already started to … Continue reading
Filed under Free software applications, Mozilla
Always use protection
Thanks to Ido, I got a link to TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL’s 25 Most Awesome Firefox Wallpapers. The one I loved the most is “Safe Browsing with Firefox”: What’s yours ?
Filed under Mozilla, Proud to use free software
Working for Free? – Motivations of Participating in Open Source Projects
I’ve been asked to summarize an article by Alexander Hars & Shaosong Ou about motivations of participating in open source projects written in 2000 for a psychology course. It was very interested to see how many things can motivate one … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora, Mozilla, Openoffice.org, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu
