electron zoo

I finally got a chance to download and play with Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR — yep, I have indeed been hiding under a rock the past few months.

I’m pleased to report that I’m using it right now to update my blog with Blogger, because when the initial Mozilla 1.0 release occured, Mozilla was not supported by Blogger. But that’s ancient history — now the smart chaps at Google are running Blogger, and they wouldn’t dream of such an oversight. In fact, Google search is integrated into Mozilla Firefox.

Another very cool feature that’s been integrated into Firefox is an RSS reader. I think that’s fantastic, because RSS feeds are just too darn useful to have to have a lofty learning curve for much of the browsing masses.

Do you think this is a good reason to party? Then do it — a series of worldwide parties are being planned, just like they were to celebrate the initial Mozilla 1.0 release. In fact, I went to the one here in DC and the turnout wasn’t bad, but it was nothing like the killer release party in San Francisco. I saw a documentary at a convention once about the build-up to the first Mozilla release that documented the San Francisco party, but when I just went looking for its name on Google I didn’t turn up a whole lot. I think it might have been called Code Rush, since there is a documentary about Netscape by this name.

I don’t really have the time or inclination to actually organize a Mozilla party in DC, but I’m going to watch this space and see if 1.0 really will happen again.