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Posts Tagged Firefox

it’s the little things

That little page was my first view of the new testing buildbots living in the Mozilla colocation facility. It may not look like much yet, but it’s overflowing with potential. What does it do, you wonder? It runs test-enabled builds, then runs make check, reftest and mochitest. From the three columns, you might infer that [...]


Rediscover the Tab Bar

It’s a Saturday. And as the machinery churns towards the inevitable final release of Firefox 2.0, there’ll be a number of users finding the new and improved tab bar a little different.
This first thing most people will notice in Firefox 2.0 is there is no longer a “close-tab” button on the right of the tab [...]


BonEcho RC1 prerelease testday, Fri, 09/22/2006

Tomorrow is another testday where myself and a few of my close friends in QA will be hanging out in the #testday channel on IRC playing “kick the browser”. This is a round of testing against the new BonEcho RC1 release candidate which, if all goes well, should be landing some time next week.
And if [...]


BonEcho Community Test Day

This Friday we’re going to be doing another community test day. We’d like everyone who can make it to come out, drop into #qa on irc.mozilla.org and do some browser testing. This week’s areas of interest will be tabbed browsing and the recently-upgraded and still in-progress Firefox 2.0 theme, aka, the visual refresh.
BonEcho Community Test [...]


Anti-phishing – Schneier Approves!

“This is a good idea,” says Schneier, presumably referring to the anti-phishing mechanism in Firefox 2.0.
For those who don’t know, Bruce Schneier is a hero of mine. He’s a smart guy, and he likes squid.
updated, corrected horrible spelling error. The squid made me think of “fishing”.


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