my2cents » Firefox http://www.frightanic.com "The Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road" - Karen Blixen Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:20:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Tell Mozilla to slow down http://www.frightanic.com/2011/10/06/tell-mozilla-to-slow-down/ http://www.frightanic.com/2011/10/06/tell-mozilla-to-slow-down/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:35:59 +0000 frightanic http://www.frightanic.com/?p=765 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.

]]> http://www.frightanic.com/2011/10/06/tell-mozilla-to-slow-down/feed/ 0 How to send a HEAD request from Firefox http://www.frightanic.com/2010/02/08/how-to-send-a-head-request-from-firefox/ http://www.frightanic.com/2010/02/08/how-to-send-a-head-request-from-firefox/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:11:51 +0000 frightanic http://www.frightanic.com/?p=453 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
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