Indistinguishable from Jesse

Nu||:

Ive had it happen a couple of times around the 3-26 builds. It was shortly after running a fresh build on an old profile and reinstalling a couple of the extensions that don't carry over. I don't remember what phase the moon was in, hard to reproduce.

I switched from Mozilla Mail to Thunderbird yesterday. Two new features I like: toolbar customization, messages I have have replied to are marked in the thread pane with a green arrow. Thunderbird also includes a spell checker, but I probably won't end up using the spell checker until it supports spell-check-as-you-type (58612).

After switching, I changed some prefs (which might have been present in Mozilla Mail too):

• Never send return receipts
• Open each message in a new window
• Don't remember the last selected message
• When you mistakenly think that my message is not plain text, "convert it to plain text" without asking me".

Things that bug me the most about Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird:

• Searching sucks.
  • Search defaults to "any of the following" (125631), like Altavista did in 1999.
  • Specifying a search seems to take more clicks than it needs to.
  • Searching is slow because it doesn't index (bug number?) or even short-circuit (154867).
• Address completion sucks.
  • The first address is usually not the one I want to e-mail (208833).
  • Autocompletion breaks the backspace key (239558).
• I can't minimize Thunderbird to the system tray for notifications (208923). I would... uhh... set it to check every 2 hours, and I'd never open Thunderbird otherwise, and then I wouldn't be distracted by mail so often!
• Message composition message windows don't disappear until Thunderbird finishes sending the message (126140, WONTFIX).

Gmail (Google) and remail (IBM Research) suggest that there is a lot of room for improvement in e-mail clients. (Gmail screenshot with ads, Gmail screenshots with "related pages".)

According to an article in The Inquirer, AOL will release a new version of Netscape based on "the latest Mozilla code" early this summer. They'll probably use the 1.7 branch, which Firefox 1.0 will also be based on. (via apeiron in #bs)

http://www.cafeshops.com/mozilla has been selling unofficial Firefox shirts for a few weeks. I suspect that the shop is run by a Mozilla developer (it used to sell "I kicked blake from #mozilla" shirts), but I don't know whether he/she has permission to sell Firefox merchandise.

I bought the "Futured" shirt, which Kerz and I designed, from Cafepress several years ago. It faded faster than most shirts I've owned. I don't know whether Cafepress has improved the quality of their shirts since then.

Update Mar 29, 2004: curious points out that The Mozilla Store now has official Firefox shirts. Yay!

From a bug-advocacy comment:

I cannot overstate the severity of this problem. This is not a minor inconvience. This is CARNAGE!!!

Hixie helped me report a security hole to Opera. Then Hixie and his friends at the W3C Technical Plenary tried to help me report it to Microsoft, offering these suggestions:

• "There's probably a form on microsoft.com/ie."
• "You report it to cnet."
• "You break into Microsoft's systems using the exploit, and insert the bug into their bug system. Since you can only do that with security bugs, that filters out the non-security ones."

I think I reported the bug to Microsoft successfully. The language on Microsoft's form ("enchancement suggestion" and "wish" rather than "bug report") was discouraging, but I did get to check a box labeled "Security".

• Red Dino in square (black)
• Hack; Dino in Star; Dino
• Dino (official)
• Hack (same as a sticker)
• Mozilla Cafe
• Mozillazine
  • Blake breaks the tree, you break his mug
  • Futured (my idea; based on bugzilla boilerplate; I have one)
• Banner
• Banner on shirts; lizard eating MSN butterflies on mugs
• I kicked blake from #mozilla
• Tinderbox after a Hyatt landing
• Viva la révolution (mug)

Older shirts:

• Dave Titus: Netscape shirts
• geekt.org: Netscape shirts
• geekt.org: Mozilla shirts
  • Free the Lizard (black)
  • Hack (black) (I have one)

Firefox shirts coming soon?

Anime version of the Firefox logo (via noririty).