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As with Linux, Firefox and Thunderbird are available for Solaris and OpenSolaris in a variety of forms: supplied with the OS, installed separately from a pkg and installed separately from a tarball (both available from Mozilla.org). Of these, the only way you can get any sort of automatic update is with the first option: via an OS update and this tends to lag behind the available releases by quite some margin. Well, that's about to change, at least for some people. I'll get straight into the technical details and leave the background behind all of this to the very end. This post and the accompanying code was inspired by this article on Mozilla Developer Center. Update: Ooops, it would seem the automatic update DOES work by default for the tarball downloads, it just doesn't offer an automatic upgrade between 3.5.x and 3.6.x as I was testing. I'll leave the rest of this post as is as an "education" for those wanting to implement their own internal crude update system. Continue reading ►

Wow!!! This is pretty impressive. In about two hours, the guys in the Habari community whipped up a functioning Mozilla Account Manager plugin for Habari so users can now take advantage of the Mozilla Account Manager extension to login/logout of their Habari sites from anywhere on their site (no need to locate the login button/form). I believe Habari may have pipped Wordpress to releasing such a plugin too.

Got more news on Firefox 3 for OpenSolaris. Contributed builds are indeed available, but they don't count towards the "Download Day" record.

I hope you haven't forgotten: Today is Firefox 3 download day. Head on over and download Firefox 3 for your platform and be a part of history. Help set the new world record for the most downloads in one day. As of 10am US PDT (18:00 GMT/UTC) you can grab your downloads from GetFirefox.com, and there should be a Solaris version available too. Update: I've just heard on the internal aliases that there won't be a Solaris/OpenSolaris build available or included in the world record stats. Apparently it's got to do with some strict restrictions by Guinness. I suspect... Continue reading ►

Firebug, or the lack there of, WAS the only thing stopping me from using Firefox 3 on a more permanent basis, especially now it's much faster and integrates better on the Mac and given that Safari seems to be quite selective at what it caches. But not anymore. With Firebug being such a great tool, I couldn't believe they would take so long to come up with a release that is Firefox 3 compatible, but everytime I fired up Firefox or checked the plugins, there was never a compatible version available. So instead of relying on the plugin, I ... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008: 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to... ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently. Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on OS X from one of the ZFS developers at Apple. 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms - And the award for the Most Innovative Server OS goes to... well, Solaris 10 of course. Who else? shimmer - A great alternative to port knocking,... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 28 Sep 2007 - 13 Oct 2007: 'Hybrid' HDD Technology To Allow Data Access Without Booting - Nice to see the PC market is finally catching up with Apple. Apple computers have been able to do this for years. Firefox Is Going Mobile - I can't help but feel this is a little ambitious. Whilst it's a great idea, given the probable H/W requirements and Firefox's current memory munching issue, I'm going to need a whole PC in my pocket to use Firefox on a mobile. BUSTED! 11 Myths about Solaris on X86/X64 platforms - I'm... Continue reading ►

I was a bit disappointed to read that the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation is seriously considering giving Thunderbird the chop and setting it free from the constraints and support of the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation. Whilst Thunderbird has been playing second fiddle to Firefox, I think it's equally as important and really needs the backing of an established name to continue to drive it forward. I can understand Mozilla's desire to focus on the web, and increase it's push towards overcoming the IE dominance, but what about the dominance of Outlook and the lack of usable, truly cross-platform email clients? I think if Thunderbird... Continue reading ►

Did you know that very few browsers implement the :after CSS property for the "img" HTML tag? Nope, neither did I until I wanted to use it. I'm in the process of redesigning my personal site, and one of the things I wanted to do was use CSS to place the Flickr logo after any image I include in a post that is stored on Flick. I do this already with a bit of HTML & CSS, but I need to remember to add the snippet of code everytime I include a Flickr image. By implementing it in CSS, all I would have to do is ensure I use the correct class name and it would appear automatically. Continue reading ►

I've been using the Lightning Calendar extension, along with the WCAP extension ('cos we use SJSCS) to access my calendar at work for some time now. I've configured the extension/Thunderbird to remember my calendar login details, added my calendars and all in all it works a treat. However, there is one thing that really started to annoy me. Everytime the session expires, I get this lovely little alert box: Continue reading ►