Author Archives: mkaply

New Rebranding Wizard

I’ve just uploaded a new version of my add-on Rebrand to AMO. Until it is approved, you can download it using this URL. This new version adds support for SeaMonkey as well as Firefox 3.6. Rebrand is a fun add-on … Continue reading

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MetroFAIL Merchandise

This is for my Austin folks. I started a site on CafePress.com selling MetroFAIL merchandise. You should go there and buy stuff! Tired of Capital Metro’s Epic FAIL around commuter rail? Show how you feel with MetroFAIL merchandise.

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Great Article on Mozilla Contributions

Josh Lowensohn from cnet has a great blog post up about Mozilla Contributions that echoes some of the things I posted earlier. One interesting observation: Of the 500 or so developers who are participating in the program, the average contribution … Continue reading

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November Refresh Austin – Building Add-ons for Firefox and Fennec

If you live in Austin and want to know how to build Firefox Add-ons, the next meeting of Refresh Austin is going to have Mark Phillip giving a talk on building add-ons for Firefox and Fennec. Mark is responsible for … Continue reading

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New Rebrand Add-on Finally Available

Version 1.0 of my Rebrand Add-on is finally available. The Rebrand add-on allows you to change the names and images that are used by Firefox and Thunderbird. You can change it to whatever you want. Here’s my browser: Disclaimer: This … Continue reading

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One Add-on Developer's Perspective on Contributions

Recently there was a post on on the Mozilla Add-ons Blog about Contributions. While that information was interesting, what I’d much rather see is individual developers talking about their experiences with Contributions. Hopefully my post will start a trend. (For … Continue reading

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Operator 0.9.5 Finally Available

I’m finally making Operator 0.9.5 available. You can download it from AMO. (It might not be there yet). This version has a very significant change – I’ve removed the ability to have Operator present itself based on actions versus the … Continue reading

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Operator First Run

One of the problems I’ve seen consistently with Operator is that people don’t realize there are other ways to interact with it besides the toolbar. To solve that problem, I’m creating a first run page for Operator that shows the … Continue reading

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Back from the Dead

It’s been way too long since I have blogged. Most of my summer was spent on a cross country road trip which you can read about here. I worked as we traveled which went reasonably well, but didn’t leave time … Continue reading

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Canvas from Brand Thunder

In the description for the Personas Add-on is the following statement: The Artist in You Should Be Able to Treat the Browser as Your Canvas With the introduction of Canvas (formerly PhotoFox) from Brand Thunder, you really can treat your … Continue reading

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