Tag Archives: Firefox
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
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
Can everything except windows can be free software?
I got my hands on a laptop with Windows XP installed, and can do whatever I want with it, except deleting the windows. I decided not to have a dual boot on it, but to try and make it free … Continue reading
Firefox triage has ended – 300+ bugs processed
It took half a year (including a long pause), and the Firefox triage is finally over. The last part, reviewing 120 bug reports took about a month. Starting with 324 bugs, the triage ended with 10 open bugs which I … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Mozilla, QA stuff
Why does Ubuntu puts Firefox transalation in gnome’s language pack ? (2)
A day after presenting the question, seems like a user got a problem I didn’t thought of. He didn’t like Firefox 3 and decided to install Firefox 2 instead. The problem is that he now has Firefox 2 and the … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Mozilla, Ubuntu
Why does Ubuntu puts Firefox transalation in gnome’s language pack ?
The other day, Tomer from Mozilla Israel contacted me to update me that the Israeli Ubuntu community changes the Firefox translation and doesn’t contribute the changes back. We sorted out the translation process with the Ubuntu people who were very … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Mozilla, Ubuntu
Closing old Firefox bugs
Back in October I ran a Firefox/Iceweasel bug triage which resulted in handling 60% of the bugs. 5 months later, this leaves ~130 bugs which I’d like to close as the submitters aren’t responsive (2/3 pings as usual). It will … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Mozilla, QA stuff
Status of the Firefox bug triage (and what I learned from triaging bugs)
The Firefox bug triage started a month ago, with the goal of verifying the relevance of bugs reported against the firefox package, which isn’t present any more in unstable. From the 324 bugs I started with, 37 have been closed … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Mozilla, QA stuff
Firefox bug triage
Today, I started doing the Firefox bug triage. A request to reproduce or close bugs was sent to 324 bugs’ owners. Most of the bugs were reported against Firefox version 1.5 (or lower). As some people responded quite quickly, about … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Mozilla, QA stuff
