Category Archives: Mozilla

I’ve spun off all the firebot related traffic to his new blog. It will include updates about his status as well as upcoming changes and so forth, similar to other status blogs that appear on planet. Until it gets added … Continue reading →

I’m taking advantage of my winter break as well as the holiday season lull to upgrade firebot’s server today (12/28/2010). So he’ll be offline from now until that’s completed sometime tonight or tomorrow. I’m also reconfiguring how my mail server … Continue reading →

I recognize that this post is about to be little more than a complaint (as i’m not sure what better behavior would be, I don’t claim to know good design, thats what the UX team exists for), but I recall … Continue reading →

In general, it seems as if its not obvious how to reach me regarding firebot. In fact, in seems like a lot of people don’t know who runs firebot at all. So hopefully this post will clear things up. First … Continue reading →

I have a question.. not sure exactly where to direct this question at such a late hour on a friday night, i’ll just type it out here… After being sick for a couple of days I’ve read that appearantly there’s … Continue reading →

Starting now, and continuing for at least several hours, the server that hosts firebot will be down for an upgrade.. since the other server here is being kind enough to donate its “old” CPU and motherboard… The server will be … Continue reading →

Exactly 7 years to the day of its predecessor, a new version of Mozbot, the extensible IRC bot, has been released. New in Mozbot 2.6 is: The Google module, including Google Fight support. Support for Bugzilla activity messages in channels … Continue reading →

Its been a long time since there was a Mozbot release, the last release was, in fact, Mozbot 2.4 on April 1st, 2002.. Mozbot 2.6, the next release, has been in development ever since (As Mozbot 2.5, since Mozbot releases … Continue reading →

Most of you are aware that I run firebot, and that he’s been around, a relatively long time now, where long is since around the Firefox 0.9 launch (June 6th? maybe, can’t really remember, and the launch was the 14th.) … Continue reading →

This Wednesday, the server that hosts firebot will be down for several hours (during the afternoon/evening EDT) for planned maintenance. This, of course, means that firebot will be offline and not available for your bug watching, tree burning, and factoid … Continue reading →

Yes, I know, I’m late to the game.. and out of practice at blogging these days. Just wanted to get my own opinion out, since self-expression makes me feel all fuzzy…. So, yay, now we apparently have Icedove and IceWeasel … Continue reading →

From the SpreadFirefox Account page: “The e-mail address is not made public and will only be used if you wish to receive a new password or wish to receive certain news or notifications by e-mail.” So, how then, did I … Continue reading →

From http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=7479: “The Mozilla Foundation’s community marketing site Spread Firefox has been hacked for the second time in less than three months. According to an email sent to registered users of the site, unknown remote attackers exploited a vulnerability in … Continue reading →

Well, no software is perfect. So today saw alot of activity regarding a newly publicized exploit in Firefox 1.0.3. The exploit is a combination of several flaws, which make it appear that a software install comes from addons.update.mozilla.org, then another … Continue reading →

This past January I got one of the Firefox plush toys from the Mozilla Store. (though it took awhile to show up. :-/) I finally got around to taking a few photos of the little guy. The first shot being … Continue reading →