Indistinguishable from Jesse

Kerry has an impressive PageRank 8 while Bush only has PageRank 7, like me. (Via curious on IRC.)

Kerry also beats Bush in a search for kerry | bush and even in a search for president.

<blake2> congratulations mconnor
<blake2> you just destroyed a legend!

Today Mike Connor replaced "Cookies are delicious delicacies." in Firefox's options with "Cookies are pieces of information stored by web pages on your computer. They are used to remember login information and other data."

Blake's famous placeholder text even appeared in a book, O'Reilly's Google: The Missing Manual:

As of this writing, Firefox is still in the testing, or beta, stage (version 0.8), which sounds dicey. But in fact, it's definitely far enough along that anyone can use it with confidence. The underlying technology is the same as Mozilla's, so problems tend to show up in things like the occasional misspelled menu item or a cookie setting that includes the observation, "Cookies are delicious delicacies," inserted by an engineer with a wacky sense of humor.

(O'Reilly sent me a free copy of the book because it dedicates several pages to my search bookmarklets. The authors of the book say several useful things about my bookmarklets that I didn't know!)

<blake2> how times have changed. I guess we really are shipping something.

mgaugusch's 70-person company not only prepared Firefox for network install, but it also used Squid to block Internet Explorer from accessing sites other than Windows Update and the company's own site. The company does not prevent employees from using other browsers, such as Opera, although Opera users may have to change their user-agent setting to make Opera stop making itself appear to be IE. (Via mgaugusch's post on MozillaZine.)

Using the Flash seek bar bookmarklet, I found two hidden segments at the end of Strong Bad e-mail 87: Mile. They can't be reached by the usual method of clicking on things at the end of the cartoon. Burning Horizon has instructions for getting to the first hidden segment but not the second.

The bookmarklet allowed me to read all of the signs in the desert in This Land.

A co-worker pointed out that you can use the bookmarklet to reach minigames in Frank's Adventure 3. You have to pause before using the slider for it to work correctly.

I wrote a bookmarklet that adds a seek bar to flash movies. It works in Mozilla and IE. Read the script or grab the bookmarklet.

• Keep your Jesus off my penis. Wow. NSFR.
• This Land (unframed). So funny, I didn't mind it letting Bush off easy.
• Bush in 41.2 seconds. Surprised me.
• Yet another edited State of the Union address. Not as good as the ones from previous years.

update.mozilla.org now has 100 Firefox extensions that work in 0.9. Extensionroom has 195, but many of them only work in older versions.

Slashdot was responsible for my initial involvement in the Mozilla project. It might have been this article or it might have been a comment (such as mpt's) in another article.

The first Mozilla build I used was M13. I reported my first bug in February 2000, when I was a senior in high school.

At first, I only reported and triaged bugs. Then I started writing testcases for layout bugs, participating in user interface design, and finding security holes. Now I'm also writing patches for UI bugs.

Things that encouraged me to continue contributing when I was a newbie:

• Eli Goldberg's comment in my first bug report.
• My sixth bug report, which was about pop-up windows, getting forty votes, including at least ten due to a comment I posted on Slashdot. At the time, that was enough to put it in the top ten!
• Some of my bug reports getting fixed quickly.
• Asa's enthusiastic email to me when he gave me the ability to confirm and edit bug reports in Bugzilla.
• Communicating with other Mozilla community members not only through Bugzilla but also through IRC.