Screwed by Design

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Firefox has changed the web again, this time it comes in the form of a new standard.
A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 7 will use Firefox’s feed icon to indicate the presence of feeds. Followed by this announcement, the Outlook 12 team announced they’d be doing the same and now there’s a movement to make the icon the standard for describing and making feeds more visible in web pages and applications.
Hopefully changes like these will become common place as Firefox development continues. It’s been a long five years since IE6 was released and in the meantime the web has grown old and tired. Changes like these show the influence Firefox has had thus far on reaching ‘Web 2.0‘ and this sure won’t be the last - the web’s on fire whether you like it or not

Come an’ get it!
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5

If you’ve got RC3, there is no need to update.

My Firefox extension (DSLR Notifier) for Dslreports has finally hit 1.0!
I sort of stopped working on it for a while, but I finally spent some time this weekend fixing some bugs and adding new features. If you’re a member of the site, check it out!
Take a look at the release announcement.

Release Candidate 3 has been released. If you’re running one of the betas or RC1/2, you should upgrade now (Help -> Check for Updates) or download the latest release. 1.5 final should be out within another week or so

It’s been one year since Firefox 1.0 was released and we’re one step closer to 1.5 with the release of Release Candidate 2 this afternoon. If you’re running one of the betas or RC1, you should upgrade now (Help -> Check for Updates) or download the latest release. If all goes well, 1.5 final should be released within a week or two.

http://developer.mozilla.org/contests/extendfirefox/index.php

I’m definitely going to try to submit a few extensions. I don’t have any really great ideas though :/
XMLim probably won’t knock anyone out of the park, but it’s worth a shot.

A big part of how it’s judged is whether or not it uses new technologies introduced in 1.5… So now I just need to figure out something cool to do using canvas, SVG and the various other new features.
I need ideas!!

Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1 has been released. If you’re running one of the betas, you should upgrade now (Help -> Check for Updates) or download the latest release.

At 11:13:40 CDT 10/19/05 Firefox was downloaded for the 100,000,000th time. Only 344 days, 17 hours, and 14 minutes after the release of Firefox 1.0. It’s been a great year of setting the web on fire - here’s to 100,000,000 more!