What’s your style?

January 21st, 2010 by FuzzyFox with 1 Comment »

Gorjan's PersonaEver wanted to change the wallpapers in your room? 3 times a day? Well with Firefox 3.6 that is now possible for your browser thanks to its integrated Personas.[1] With more than 30000 personas to choose from (and more every day), you can theme Firefox just the way you like it. It’s super easy as well to create your very own Personas and add them to the gallery, and be among thousands of other designers from all over the world!

To help us find out which Personas out there you love the most, we present you with a  challenge, to help celebrate the launch of Firefox 3.6 and its newest and possibly greatest feature. We want you to show off your Firefox with your favourite Personas installed. We have even taken the time out to do it have already done our own Perosna-portraits ourselves, as well as and provided you with some great tools to help you get started.

So what are you waiting for? Head to www.spreadfirefox.com/get-personas and share your style with the world!

Oh, and the picture you see here? That is Gorjan from Mozilla Macedonia showing off just one of the ways you can join in!

[1] For those of you that are new to the Personas feature, they are lightweight themes for Firefox that are easy to install and chage without the need to restart your browser.

Firefox 3.6 – Fashionably Late

January 21st, 2010 by FuzzyFox with 1 Comment »

Okay, so Firefox 3.6 is a little later than planned, however we are sure that you will find the wait has been worth while. As they say in the world of fame, “it is fashionable to be late”. That is not all that is fashionable about this new version of the browser. Oh no, that is just the start of it.

With a new theme system known as Personas you can now change the look of the browser in seconds, with a choice that just boggles the mind. How often are you going to want to choose from over 30,000 different themes? Fashion is not all that Firefox is about however an there have been many changes under the hood that you may not notice. So let us fill in some of the details for you.

For Designers there is now support for CSS gradients as well as WOFF (these are small fonts that you can integrate into a website). This means that not only will you be able to make your sites look good, but they will load faster than ever before.

Oh and did we mention that Firefox 3.6 is fast? Firefox 3.6 is 20% faster than 3.5, and, if you remember, 3.5 was 3 times faster than Firefox 3. So on the whole, you cant get much faster without the safety that Firefox provides. This safety comes to you in the from of the new plug-in check feature that will allow you to see if your plug-ins are up-to-date, or if they need a little bit of an upgrade.

Programmers of the world. We did not forget you in the slightest. You can now add page orientation to your web apps thanks to the new orientation API. You can also use drag and drop functions as well as use the new FILE API to make your web apps more like desktop apps.

For all those out there that love to customize your browsing experience (with over 6000 Add-ons and over 30,000 Personas), to those of you that love to make the web better. Firefox 3.6 is the browser for you.

So visit www.firefox.com and enjoy a faster, safer and more secure way to use the web.

Mozilla Communities Theme

January 12th, 2010 by FuzzyFox with 9 Comments »

I have sort of fallen for this design, and as you can probably see, I use it quite a lot now. I have almost taken it under my wing as such and am working out the kinks in it as I go. So far I have made very few changes to the wordpress theme however I did find, that the mcs drupal theme did not work correctly and so I spent a while fixing some of the main issues in it. I have also created an open office template file for anyone wanting to to a Mozilla Community presentation. So feel free to download either of the two and let me know if you have any problems with them.

Drupal Theme: drupal.zip (1.7mb)
Presentaion Theme: presentation.otp (259.6kb)

My thanks go out to Gandalf for making the theme a reality in the first place. Without his work, well, this wouldn’t be here really would it :D

Licensing

[NOTE: the drupal theme is still under work so there are likely to be quite a few bugs with it.]

Not Tom Ellins

January 10th, 2010 by FuzzyFox with 3 Comments »

I know I have been introduced to the planet already, however I think that there is more to be said before I start posting properly.

First up is my name is not Tom Ellins :P it is in fact William D (just to confuse the issue). I am not William Q or William R either. I am glad to be here however among many others, some who share my first name and many who don’t.

I am sure some are asking why I am now on the planet, so I will explain in brief. William Quiviger is in part to blame. During the Mozilla Firefox 5 year party in London William asked me:

“Why are you not on planet?”

To which I responed:

“I’m not sure”

I then thought of some potential reasons, but on second thinking, I found that they were all completely irrelevant. This year I made it one of my resolutions to blog more, and so now is a good time for me to have made a request (with the idea gained from William) to be a citizen of the planet, and, you’ll never guess what… It actually happened!

So that is me, in short, and how I got here. I look forward to getting to know more of the community, and will ensure that all my posts are, well, interestingly written at the least.

William D – aka FuzzyFox

#eumozcamp09 A Unique Round-Up

October 10th, 2009 by FuzzyFox with 4 Comments »

MozCamp PragueOkay so it is now about 1 week since MozCamp EU 2009, and, the first thing that comes to my mind about the event is “Did everyone who booked the 5am shuttle on the Monday get it okay?” Sad I know but… I did organize it and should it have all gone tits up the blame falls on me! I want to have left a good and lasting impression on the European Mozilla Community. So enough of my shortcomings. Lets get to my round-up of the event!

The event first started for me when I arrived at Ruzyne airport and I met up with 2 members of the Mozilla Community. I shared a taxi with them instead of using the free transport ticket, which, gave time to get to know them both a little better. That night dinner was found at a nice little pizza pallor where I got a pasta :P I can’t eat pizza at a pizza pallor. That would be insane! Read the rest of this entry »