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I like Safari, but …

For a while, I’ve been following the progress of Mozilla’s mobile browser project, codenamed Fennec. As the Mozilla team’s efforts push the project forward, I can’t help but hope that one day soon it will be available on the iPhone. Of course, this will mean that Apple will have to actually APPROVE the app for inclusion in the App Store.

As of this post, Apple has yet to approve any major 3rd party web browser application for the iPhone (meaning not based on Safari). That’s one of the few things where Helio had them beat. When the Opera “mini” browser was released, Helio embraced it. And how could they not? Let’s face it, the Helio native browser was sluggish and seriously lacking in many features where as Opera was sleek, fast, and surely had it beat. Heck, you could even manage your bookmarks online from the Opera website and easily synchronize with the browser on your device.

I would LOVE to see that kind of capability on my iPhone!

I had hoped that by now, Fennec would be far enough along that Helio users could use it. But since Jim and I have jumped aboard the Apple ship, my hopes are now that Fennec could one day soon be made available for iPhone users.

Please, Apple? Please???

Don’t get me wrong, I like Safari … but I’m a Mozilla fangirl through and through!

Addons update

I noticed that at some point over the weekend, the latest version of my MonstersGame: Vampires vs Werewolves Menu addon was approved. YAY!

My mc chris Website Menu Navigation addon is still pending, but anyone who would like the updated version can scroll down and click “See All Versions” to see the pending update. (It will be marked as ‘experimental’ until it’s approved by the AMO team!)

I’m almost finished with the re-write for my MonstersGame addon, but I doubt I’ll be doing much to the mc chris one. I’ve been toying around with ideas for a couple other addons, but will need some permissions first for content/use (one of which includes a small business opportunity hopefully!).

I’ll post more info later!

Firefox 3: So far, so good!

An hour into the Download Day launch, the Mozilla servers were heavily overloaded and many people (myself included) could not get through. There was a quick apology posted by Melissa over on the Mozilla Blog with the promise that things will go live soon and the download day will start with the site’s go-live. That’s all well and good, BUT with a little help from Read Write Web I was able to snag the download and install the latest and greatest in a matter of seconds.

(No worries, Mozzie. I’ll be downloading several times tonight from home to count towards the download goal!)

Hooray, it installed!

I really like the changes I’m seeing. I’m now reading over the Power User’s Guide over on LifeHacker and Deb Richardson’s Field Guide to Firefox 3. The overall extension support seems pretty good too. Out of all of my extensions, only a handful are not yet FF3-ready.

So those of you who’ve been counting down the hours like I have … what’s your take on the new ‘Fox so far?

Firefox 3 Download Day

Tomorrow, June 17th is the release date for Firefox 3 to the general public. Mozilla has set a lofty goal for itself — they are trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours.

Sounds neat, right? Well, I plan on participating … how ’bout you? To participate, all you’ll need to do is just download Firefox 3 tomorrow within the first 24 hours of its release.

Download Day website and info: www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord