I know you don’t want them to want AI, but…

Today, Rodrigo Ghedrin wrote the very well-intentioned, but incorrectly-titled, “ I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla ”. As he correctly summarizes,...

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released their own browser called Atlas, and it actually is something new: the first browser that actively fights against...

It's still a Phoenix

Before it was called Firefox, or Firebird, Mozilla’s lightweight browser was known as Phoenix. An appropriate name, given than it rose from the ashes of...

It's the circle of (web) life!

Picture Terry Semel holding a little lion cub up in the air with both arms extended. What’s that? It’s the Circle of Life! Well, maybe Circle of Life 2.0? Okay,...

The Windows Apps You Never Need To Install

One of the interesting things about being a serious Windows user is that very little attention is paid to efficient users of Windows, and that we suffer from...

What Firebird Needs

My recent ranting about fonts notwithstanding, I’m usually seen by the web development community as a Microsoft apologist. I use (and like using) Windows and my...

Upon the demise of Netscape

Now that Netscape’s more or less officially dead, it occurs to me that it might be worthwhile for Google to bankroll the Mozilla Foundation , either by donating...

controlling design in a microcontent browser

So, after we’ve all graduated to using microcontent clients to navigate through websites, people whose weblogs are primarily read through their RSS feeds are...

Introducing the Microcontent Client

Microcontent is information published in short form, with its length dictated by the constraint of a single main topic and by the physical and technical...

The Microcontent Browser

Over at peterme (now with green!) the site’s eponymous author offers some SXSW thoughts, which I point to only because he summed up very well two of the panels...

So I'm posting this in

So I’m posting this in Mozilla 0.7 , which is the first stable version that’s even remotely possible to use as a primary browser. Although I have to admit that...