Pages Tagged “From: Spread Firefox”
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- Know Your Enemy (Web Browser Rivalries)
There’s a lot of misinformation out there about various web browsers. Opera can/can’t do this. Firefox can/can’t do that. There’s only so much you can do to promote one product when you only know rumors or outdated facts about another. Opera users: If someone told you that Firefox was better than Opera because it doesn’t […]
- Conditional Firefox Get/Upgrade Banners in JavaScript
It’s redundant to show a Get Firefox! banner to someone already using Firefox, but it’s useful to show them an upgrade banner if they’re on an old version.
- Tabs ≠ MDI
The ridiculous Firefox/Opera rivalry (it’s software, not religion) has given rise to one annoyingly persistent meme: the belief that tabs are just MDI (Multiple Document Interface). They’re not. MDI, as implemented in many Windows applications and eventually abandoned by Microsoft, involves having a mini-desktop inside your application, with its own windows that you can minimize, […]
- No More Mozilla Coffee
Remember Mozilla Coffee? In the first month they offered it, RJ Tarpley’s Coffee raised $400 for the Mozilla Foundation by donating a percentage of the profits. We ordered it a couple of times, and it was actually pretty good. I even picked up a Mozilla Coffee Mug at one point. Alas, the website (formerly www.rjtarpleys.com) […]