I just wanted to celebrate the fact that 6 days from now according to EOC predictions), we'll pass the (in)famous G4TechTV! (just kidding, I don't have any reason to hate those guys, except that they are in another team :o)

For the newcomers that don't know the story, let's say that when we began the firefox team, it grown quite fast, and our rank increased incredibly fast. I don't know for the other members, but I was quite proud of that, and believed that this way of helping medical research while promoting free software and better browsing experience was very cool.

Suddenly, as we felt quite invicible, this new team G4TechTV, came from nowhere in the game and beat us without any problem, which was very annoying, not to say humiliating...

For those who do not know, I am a FireFox Power User (TM). At work I have over 20 extensions installed, generally as part of a web development system. I also have massive memory woes :-/ At work I must close FireFox at least every 3 hours since it uses upwards of 300MB of RAM with 30 tabs open. At home, with an uptime measured in months, FireFox *averages* 600 MB of memory; necessitating the purchase of another 1 GB DIMM :-/ See comment #41 [spreadthefox.net] for the gory details.

I've been using daily builds for about the last 2 months. I upgrade every time the changelog seems to have more fixes than new bugs...basicaly once a week. I was insanely interested in the patches after 2/28 that *supposedly* fixed the tab memory leak, as this is the bane of my FF experience. However I never realized any improvements, and subsequently, the guy revoked his patch as it didn't fix and indeed broke a great many more things.

Google 302 Exploit Knocks Sites Out - clsc writes "The exploit: Redirect via 302 to another page of your choice, then watch as the URL of your your redirect script replaces the URL of that carefully selected page in Google's search results. Once this happens, feel free to redirect any visitor that is not Googlebot to any other page of your choice. Also applies to other search engines as well (not Yahoo! though)." [Slashdot]

I already noticed this thing when moving the site to spreadthefox.net (but didn't see any way of exploiting this): Google showed up results with firefoxfah.sf.net (the old domain) but with content from the new site. firefoxfah.sf.net has a 301 (Moved Permanently) redirect.

Future of the Mozilla Application Suite: No Official Mozilla 1.8, Community Transition Plan Unveiled - [mozillaZine]
Sad news for SeaMonkey users, but good news for Firefox: more users will use Firefox instead of the suite!

Why Folding@Home instead of other distributed computing projects? Because Folding@Home has produced more results than other projects. It can at the end help save lives, by finding cures to diseases. It might actually save your life later, in contrast to other distributed computing projects that check if there are aliens, crack mathematical algorithms or forecast what the climate will be when you've passed away for a long time already (maybe because of a disease which Folding@Home could provide cures to).

The team is now in the SFX Projects list on the unofficial Mozilla wiki. We really need some more people to join the team.

If anyone is curious about the customized installer: my Windows partition just stopped working so I'm stuck until I'll get it fixed (which might take some time, have lots of stuff to do this week).