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Add To Reader for Ubiquity

Posted by James | Filed under Code, Geek, Web

Just wrote a basic “Add to Reader” verb for Ubiquity.

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If you don’t know what Ubiquity is then watch the video.

Ubiquity is going to be awesome for Firefox power-users. One of the best things about Firefox is the extension eco-system and Ubiquity is going to make writing extensions much easier.

UPDATE: Modified my script to no longer require the type of feed, it will now just pick the first one it finds. Future ideas include listing the feeds available and allowing the user to choose one before adding it.

Tags: Add-on, firefox, firefox extension, firefox-add on, mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Ubiquity

Read more | Comments (0) | August 27th, 2008

How did Firefox 3 do?

Posted by James | Filed under Geek, Web

This morning it looked like Mozilla was on track to set a world record by serving up 5 to 7 million downloads of Firefox 3 within 24 hours of the web browser’s release. But by day’s end, (well, 24 hour’s end anyway), you all smashed that number and downloaded Firefox 3 over 8 million times.

Mozilla is still waiting to get confirmation from the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records before proclaiming the official number, but Mozilla Links pegs the number at 8,290,908, give or take a few. And NetApplications says that Firefox 3 went from less than 1% of the browser market this morning to almost 3% in a matter of 13 hours.

No matter what, Mozilla will have set a world record though — since they’re competing in a brand new category.