Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet suggested Mozilla should take over OpenOffice.org because of OO.o’s slow development. I think he is either out of his mind, or doing a “John Dvorak” style link bait (which I have bitten). For one, OpenOffice.org is leaps ahead of Office 97 — I’ll even argue that it is better than Office [...]
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Oct 26 2006
Aug 23 2006
Microsoft Invites Firefox Developers to Redmond
Ars Technica: Microsoft’s open source software lab is inviting Firefox and Thunderbird developers for a tour of their research centre, in hope to assist them to make Firefox running smoothly on Windows Vista. The question is, will they get out alive? Kidding aside, Firefox has been running smoothly on Windows XP without their developers having [...]
Jul 20 2005
GreaseMonkey Vulnerability
Pre-0.3.5 GreaseMonkey has a severe security flaw that allows evil webmasters to take over your computer. Solution is either install “neutered” version 0.3.5 or uninstall. Also reported on Slashdot. I don’t have any user scripts that depend on GM* functions, so I chose upgrade.
Dec 7 2004
Thunderbird 1.0
Thunderbird 1.0 is out. MUA of choice on Windows. Too bad that at work we are forced to use Outlook, on Linux I only used mutt, and on Mac Mail.app rules.