my2cents

Here’s an idea for your one-good-deed-per-day program: tell Mozilla on every channel to reverse their idiotic and suicidal rapid release process.

Why not start by commenting the chairperson’s personal blog post: http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2011/08/25/rapid-release-process

I wish the big wings at Mozilla realized that it’s not just the enterprise folks who care about stability (releases & API).
Simple question: what do you think counts more for the average non-enterprise Firefox/Thunderbird user
a) a few new features every month thereby loosing a few add-ons because fewer and fewer add-on devs want to release that quickly (they all devote their *spare* time, get it?)
b) a batch of new features every 9 months which had given add-on devs ample time to prepare

Isn’t really a question, is it?

Firefox isn’t so great because it’s Firefox from Mozilla but because of the ecosystem around it. Go out and piss off those who built the ecosystem and it’s gonna die.

Use the JavaScript console in Firebug and run the following script snippet:

var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.open("HEAD", "the_url",true); // Async HEAD request (relative path to avoid cross-domain restrictions)
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() {
  if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) { // make sure the request is complete
    alert(xmlhttp.getAllResponseHeaders()) // display the headers
  }
}
xmlhttp.send(null); // send request