To get the 5% off, Firefox users have to enter coupon code firefoxed in the appropriate field during checkout.

Nice initiative.

However, I wonder why they haven't chosen to let their shop do a browser check, instead of just telling people to enter a coupon code, which any person on any browser can do?

Found via Asa Dotzler

As you can see, the Mozilla [Wikipedia] has its 10 year birthday on March 31st. That means that it 10 years (yeah, well d'oh!) ago, that Netcape [Wikipedia] released the source code into the wild.

Just a tip for your calendar ;-)

• CoLT
• TinyUrl Creator

The reason was that the extensions didn't provide secure updates, probably to avoid fraud. I checked addons.mozilla.org and noticed, that the entire addons site has changed to a https:// protocol.

I Googled the two plugins and found that they are available from the addons site:

• CoLT
• TinyUrl Creator

And now they work like a charm. So remember: If you are currently using any extensions for Firefox that uses a regular http:// connection for updating, and you plan on updating to Firefox 3, you should check to see if you can download/install them from a secure location, such as addons.mozilla.org.

Just a tip :-)

Well, now I've tested in, and even though I'm sure it's a really good feature for some, I just couldn't get used to it. It was too hard to see which tab was the active one, and in the end the various colors faded into a palette, where I couldn't distinguish them from each other.

Pity, it seemed like such a nice tool…

In my Facebook people sidebar in Flock all of my friends' statuses what suddenly saying "is is" instead of just "is". For instance: "Søren is is confused".

Since I haven't updated Flock I assumed, that the issue related to Facebook itself. So I did the only decent thing and asked Google.

And what pops up as the first result? A blog post from Flock's community ambassador, Evan Hamilton, explaining this issue.

The reason for the "is is": Apparently Facebook is trying to get rid of the "is" in the status messages, to give the users a broader use of the status updates. What at nice thing to do, to blog about it :-)

"Lars is is happy" ;-)

I've been testing the beta for some time now, but it wasn't until now that I discovered the actual power of the People sidebar. Whenever people update their profile on Facebook, the sidebar updates itself. I can also choose to sort by name if I'd prefer that. And I can search through my friends.

Plus I can view my friends' media directly in Flock, I don't even have to visit the profile and click "View photos of %username%". Now that is sweet.

To the developers at Flock: That's a mighty fine piece of work!

The People sidebar also supports accounts on YouTube, Flickr and Twitter (not Jaiku, sadly…).

Duncan Riley at TechCrunch feels the same way about Flock 1.0 as I do: Flock 1.0 Beta Released: Surprisingly Very Good

I'm not going to go further into the functionality of the new version, since Riley covers this very well in his post.

Get Flocking, people :-)

For those of you that might not know: Flock is build on the Mozilla Firefox core, which means that a whole lot of Firefox extensions will work with Flock as well.

You can download it from browser.netscape.com – users of the Navigator 9 beta can choose to upgrade within the browser.

Check out what's new in Netscape Navigator 9.

What's more exciting is, that they'll begin working on a mobile version of Firefox, when Firefox 3 is released.

Read more at Mike Schroepfer's blog

One of the new features in the new version, that I've had the change to test in a nightly build of Flock, is the People sidebar. What is basically does is, that it, for instance, shows your Facebook friends in the left sidebar, when you're logged into Facebook.

From the sidebar you'll have various options. For more information, watch this People tutorial which gives a pretty good introduction.

Right now I'm sitting on Flock 1.1a1pre and People isn't really working here, so no sense in downloading the latest Flock trunk right now.

Instead you could sign up for the Flock 1.0 beta — which I have just done.

As Flock 1.0 is on its way, Flock 0.7 is sliding into the dark.