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Firefox

How to Crush Your Competition

How to Crush Your Competition My friend Karl used to call this the “embrace and extend” theory of competition, and when it works, it’s brilliant.  I just found a new example of it yesterday (thanks, Jack!) that’s very illustrative. I have been a Firefox user for a couple years now and love the browser and its extensions.  I almost never use Internet Explorer any more — although sometimes I “have to,” because there are a couple of web applications I use that just don’t work well in Firefox, like Outlook Web and online banking.  Hopefully some of that will change over time as Firefox gets more mainstream, but in the meantime, there’s now a Firefox extension that allows you to…

Chink in the Open Source Armor?

Chink in the Open Source Armor? I discovered something by accident yesterday about Firefox (which I love) that is giving me a little pause around the beauty of open source.  Maybe I’m missing something – if I am, please comment. I went to download some new extensions into Firefox, and the Mozilla site said I had to upgrade to the new version of Firefox (1.0.4) in order to access any extensions. Before I did the upgrade on my machine, I upgraded my colleague Lisa’s (I was about to show her what extensions were, so I figured it would be best to make a clean start there with 1.0.4).  But once I upgraded her, I discovered that none of the extensions…