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Making Thunderbird Financially Sustainable: How it Could Work

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/11/2010
Mozilla Messaging is looking forward to a big year in 2010 including Thunderbird 3.1 and figuring out how to make the project financially sustainable. Making Thunderbird better is the easier part. Figuring out how to make money as a project is another story entirely. No doubt the next release of Thunderbird, currently code-named Lanikai, will do [...]
Posted in Articles, Browsers, Linux, Mail Clients, Microblogging, Open Source, openSUSE | Also tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Instant "Chrome OS" with openSUSE and Firefox

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/14/2010
Was skimming the Web last night and stumbled on a page talking about browser benchmarking. The author apparently decided to get best results by running only the Web browser and no window manager or desktop environment. I was thinking, this would be a quick and easy way to emulate a Chrome OS type experience with any [...]
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Choosing a browser: What do you look for?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/13/2010
What do you look for in choosing a Web browser? I have a set of criteria that are important to me, but my criteria for choosing a browser may be quite different than yours, though. I'm interested to know what other people look for in a Web browser, and what features may not be that [...]
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Opera Using GStreamer, Pushing Ogg

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/13/2010
Opera recently released an alpha of the coming 10.5 release, which includes quite a few improvements and new features. One of the things that most users probably didn't notice is that Opera is now using the GStreamer media framework. Even though the Opera browser isn't open source, the company is doing some good work to push [...]
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Become a Firefox Test Pilot

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/11/2010
Want to help the Mozilla Project produce the best Firefox possible, but have no developer skills at all? Can you point? Click? Read instructions? Then you’re ready to suit up as a Firefox Test Pilot. Crashes not required. If you’ve ever felt like you want to give back to the Firefox project, or if you feel [...]
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Firefox extension I'm loving: It's All Text!

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/8/2010
Want to use your favorite text editor to write text for online applications? Check out It's All Text! This add-on allows you to edit text from any "textarea" on a Web page in an external editor. Once it's installed, you can configure the extension to use whatever your favorite editor happens to be. In my case [...]
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Release Early, Release Often, Adopt Slowly

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/30/2009
Things move pretty fast in the open source development world. A new kernel release comes out around every three months. Projects like GNOME, KDE, and PostgreSQL pop out releases every six months, as well as some major Linux distros. Open source development moves at a rapid and relentless pace. It's refreshing, then, to see an [...]
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