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Mozilla Dev Team On Firefox's Success

Posted by kdawson on from the include-and-reveal dept.

Titus Germanicus writes "If you're thinking about open sourcing a project in the near future, Mozilla might be the perfect blueprint to follow. At last week's Mesh 2008 conference in Canada, Mike Shaver, chief technology evangelist and founding member at Mozilla, and John Resig, a JavaScript evangelist at Mozilla — two of the key figures behind the success of Mozilla's Firefox Web browser — listed inclusivity and transparency as two of the top cornerstones of any community-built project. Shaver said in this interview that because the Web is intended for everybody, the level same openness should be shared with Firefox's open source contributors."

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  1. Firefox devs, please fix these two issues for me. by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I love Firefox. It is my default browser and has been so since its very early days. These two issues bring me headache bigtime.

    1: Please let us be able to teach Firefox how to handle the mailto: links on Windows. This is a pain on Windows XP with all service packs installed (if this helps). In its current form, if one clicks any such link, Firefox will immediately hang, and the system will "resurrect" or come to life with 48 Internet Explorer windows open.

    In these windows, will be an error message saying something to the effect that Windows could not find an appropriate program to handle the request.

    I know some will say this is a windows problem but to me, I blame Firefox for not being able to handle such a link by loading my GMail log-on page. There used to be an extension for this but it sucked big time.

    2: Video and specifically CNN live feeds together with the rtsp protocol are still not handled in a consistent way. RTSP will sometimes work but I have never been able to watch CNN live video feeds in Firefox! Ironically, the commercials preceding the feeds have no issues together with the captions. This applies to the sound as well.

    If these issues are fixed, you devs will have made my year!

    Otherwise, thank you for the good and solid Firefox browser.