It used to be the case that I pored over Mozilla (and later Firefox) release notes. But I stopped sometime in 2004, around the point when I accepted that XUL development was too hard to be doing in my spare time and yes, Firefox was clearly better than IE at just about everything. This means that I now miss all the cool announcements

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Agent Frank was super-useful as a personal proxy back in the day, but in the end it introduced too much of a delay into my daily browsing and I turned it off. Now that Firefox’s history is powered by a SQLite database I was hoping to be able to query it for my history every x minutes, request the pages and store and ind...

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Flickr have just launched code.flickr, Your one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community which I imagine they want to use to draw together the disparate developer resources from the groups, forums, mailing list and more. I guess they also want to use it to

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For the past six months or so I’ve been using the Autocomplete Manager for Firefox. From my perspective, it’s what has inspired AwesomeBar. The problem is that I only had it installed at work. At home I was happy to struggle on with plebianbar. Since I up...

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I’ve been interested in XUL for a long time. Or, since 2002 at least. In fact, although I’d forgotten all about it, many years ago I put together an alternate homepage for this blog which used XUL so that you could navigate information which I didn’t want to have to manage...

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I was all set to write a post about how we should be using centralised apps with XUL frontends for aggregation to provide native interfaces regardless of location but I find that Manuzhai beat me to it I think an online XUL aggregator is perfect: a rich UI, but available from anywhere in the ...

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Wolfgang is now onto part 3 of Developing XUL-Applications with Mozilla Today’s lesson: event driven update of the tree control Read and enjoy.

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Developing XUL-Applications with Mozilla is looking to be an excellent and practical look at constructing a functional XUL application with Mozilla. Genius stuff. I know that whenever I try to get something even mildly complex going, I keep running into problems,

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Is Mozilla Development too hard? asks Ken Walker. Neil’s reaction is Not really, and points to the

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Following on from my post the other day about XUL there is now an XUL index page for this site (Danger Will Robinson! Not where you think it’s going to be!), with only basic stuff in it at the moment, and no behaviour, but that’s all stuff I’m working on...

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