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Re: Goodbye Safari. FF3 is now my default web browser. › Yongfook | Web Producer and Consultant based in Tokyo

Gen Kanai — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:45:18 -0000

Firebug 1.2 works with Firefox 3.0

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...

Re: Firefox Plush Dolls: This is the Japanese FF mascot, Foxsuke, in plush form, which also in this case happen to… › Yongfook | Web Producer and Consultant based in Tokyo

Gen Kanai — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:24:33 -0000

Unfortunately they are not for sale, but we have done various fun contests to win these Foxkeh dolls in the past, with more coming up. Keep your eye on the rss feed at foxkeh.jp for more details on how to win a Foxkeh.

Re: Firefox Plush Dolls: This is the Japanese FF mascot, Foxsuke, in plush form, which also in this case happen to… › Yongfook | Web Producer and Consultant based in Tokyo

Gen Kanai — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:28:12 -0000

This was from the campaign we did earlier this year:

http://foxkeh.jp/blog/1867/

Re: random($foo): Firefox 3, Developing and Browsing

Gen Kanai — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:48:22 -0000

Leonard, we appreciate your extreme testing of Firefox 3 :)

Btw, Greasemonkey has a new version out: Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

Re: Kaiser Kuo and Andrew Lih on China’s unique Internet trends

Gen Kanai — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:38:42 -0000

Thomas, Maxthon's browser rendering engine is either Trident, which is built by Microsoft, or Gecko, which is built by Mozilla. It is not a 100% Chinese built product.

Re: firefox add-ons: allpeers & me.dium

Gen Kanai — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:08:11 -0000

One of the extension developers who presented at the Tokyo DevDay, Akatsuka-san, has an extension similar to me.dium. His is called Wakurawa and essentially does the same thing- allows one to see other people who are on the same site you are on at the same time you are on that site. He chooses to use the status bar area to display icons for other users.

http://www.wakurawa.com/

Re: does this look right?

Gen Kanai — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:22:54 -0000

It's a very... minimalist? theme. Highly legible. Maybe a tiny splash of color somewhere might be nice?

Re: WTFCNN

Gen Kanai — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:56:50 -0000

I find it best to go to Europe for my news on the US. BBC & FT, FTW.

I also read my home town rag, the NYT.

Re: Apple Software Update

Gen Kanai — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:58:20 -0000

John Gruber calls Apple's behavior with installing Safari on Windows, "Interesting." Gruber is smart enough to know that it's clearly much more than merely, "Interesting" and I will lose respect for him if he does not critique Apple vehemently for this.
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/march#wed...

Jesper has much stronger words for Apple: "This is disgraceful. It fails the user in favor of serving Apple. It is, in fact, malware-level tactics."
http://waffle.wootest.net/2008/03/20/where-by-i...

I'm with Jesper and John Lilly.

If Microsoft did the identical action, install some non-user-selected software using their software update channel, there would be cacophony across the Internet.

Re: Great Article about the Great Firewall

Gen Kanai — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:15:01 -0000

Whoops- sorry I didnt see your link to his blog.

Re: Great Article about the Great Firewall

Gen Kanai — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:16:15 -0000

I liked this Network World interview with Fallows.

http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cg...

Re: A Visit to Mt. Hiei

Gen Kanai — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:41:32 -0000

Glad to see you two having fun. If we can catch up in Tokyo before you leave Japan, we'd love to see you !

Re: MozCamp?

Gen Kanai — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:27:52 -0000

Al, please don't forget the 2007 Firefox Developer Day in Japan.

http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/06/18/somethin...

Re: Digital SLR Camera for me?

Gen Kanai — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:05:51 -0000

The DP1 has a bunch of issues and I would not recommend it to anyone who wasn't fully aware of it's limitations and how to work around them.

If you are looking for something compact, pocket-able for your trip, I'd look closely at the Ricoh GX-200 and the Panasonic LX-3. The Canon G9 is also really powerful and flexible but is larger (not really pocket-able) and doesn't have a real wide-angle without an adapter.

Skip the new Nikon P6000 because Nikon made more idiotic changes to their RAW format which is basically unsupported in all applications except Nikon's own (which are terribly flawed) and there's no support for OS X.
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/blog/?p=103
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b61a1b

Re: Digital SLR Camera for me?

Gen Kanai — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:10:08 -0000

As to a DSLR, both Canon and Nikon made very good DSLRs. The Digital Rebel and the D40 are both really good- what will make the difference on both is the quality of the lens (budget spending perhaps even more than the camera body) and then your skills. I prefer Nikon, but it's a personal choice and both will take great photos. I'd stay away from the Sony as there's no telling how long they're going to be in this category (whereas for Nikon and Canon there's no way they'd ever leave the DSLR category.) I'm unfamiliar with the Olympus cameras.

Re: Digital SLR Camera for me?

Gen Kanai — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:10:47 -0000

Last thought: my favorite review site is dpreview.com. You can't go wrong buying a camera with a top recommendation from DPReview.

Re: Digital SLR Camera for me?

Gen Kanai — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:22:37 -0000

If you have a friend that teaches photography then by all means that should be your first investment.

Re: Friendly Feedly

Gen Kanai — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:59:31 -0000

I've installed Feedly after hearing Deb like it. My main concern with Feedly is that it inserts suggested links in my Google searches. Try it and you'll see that after you do a search at google, Feedly pops in some links at the very top of the page. This is very interesting BUT should be a user option selected at startup, not something that I should be surprised by. I was so surprised by this action when I first saw it that I almost uninstalled Feedly at that moment. Once I realized what it's trying to do, I could see the value in it, but it's very disquieting for the user for Feedly to step in between the user and search results.

Make it a user-selectable pref at startup, not a default pref. My use of Feedly will hinge on this.

Re: My next entirely irresponsible purchase

Gen Kanai — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:20:19 -0000

Deb- the hot camera in Tokyo recently is the Ricoh GX100. You should check that one out before you go for the Nikon. The Ricoh has RAW (among a lot of other goodies.)

Re: Plain ol’ brown rice

Gen Kanai — Mon, 07 May 2007 06:37:13 -0000

We don't use brown rice but we do use a non-white rice (it is a light tan color). We generally mix it with white rice sort of 30:70 tan:white and it makes for what we think is a better bowl of rice.

Re: MobileMe and (lack of) encryption

Gen Kanai — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:26:20 -0000

[Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla but don't work in the area under discussion.]

Regarding this statement, [Mozilla] "forces anyone who wishes to use encryption to pay a certificate authority (CA) for a signed SSL certificate, which goes against the openness of the Web."

Firefox 3 ships with certificates for StartCom, who provide FREE certificates. So those people who claim that they have to pay are misinformed.

http://www.startcom.org/

Re: Kaiser Kuo and Andrew Lih on China’s unique Internet trends

Gen Kanai — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:38:42 -0000

Thomas, Maxthon's browser rendering engine is either Trident, which is built by Microsoft, or Gecko, which is built by Mozilla. It is not a 100% Chinese built product.

Re: Mozilla Gets 85% of Revenue from Google

Gen Kanai — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:53:26 -0000

"I’d like to know how much is done by volunteers."

Mozilla has stated that 37% of Firefox 2 was code that was contributed by the community. In addition to that, every localization except for the English version is built by volunteers. There's a lot more that volunteers do for Mozilla but for the product itself it's clear that a significant portion is built by volunteers, not employees.

Re: Download Firefox 3.1 Beta 1

Gen Kanai — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:36:14 -0000

Liew, thanks for blogging about the 3.1 Beta. Mozilla needs users to use these betas and report problems so that the upcoming final release is as bug-free as it can be.

One note: Nightly Tester Tools should only be used by those people who are developing Add-ons for Firefox. If you use Nightly Tester Tools to force add-ons to work in a Beta when the original developer has not developed or tested that add-on for the Beta, it can create instability in the browser.

Re: Lost of Mozilla Store Order

Gen Kanai — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:42:54 -0000

Liew, could you please email me the details of your order and I'll inquire as to the status on your behalf? I hope that it was not a problem on our side but if it was, I will be sure to fix this and get you your order.

Re: Download Firefox 3.5, the fastest ever Firefox web browser

Gen Kanai — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:43:00 -0000

LcF, thanks for the review.

While speed tests are good, I'd like to recommend another test that Steve Souders (formerly Yahoo! now at Google) has created called UA Profiler.

http://stevesouders.com/ua/index.php

UA Profiler looks at a number of other key features that makes browsers fast besides JavaScript speed (such as parallel connections, caching, link prefetching, etc.) Firefox 3.5 gets the best score of any browser right now.

Re: Dell warranty rocks

Gen Kanai — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:33:10 -0000

Colin- if you drop me an email with your address, I'd be happy to send you some Mozilla stickers :)

Re: Lightning, Google Calendar, and calendering in Thunderbird

Gen Kanai — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:15:14 -0000

Hey Colin, great writeup. Just FYI, Thunderbird 3 is in development at the new Mozilla Messaging company (subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation.) David Ascher is heading up things there and he's got calendar integration as a top priority.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2008...

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/

http://ascher.ca/blog/

Re: Checking in photography equipment?

Gen Kanai — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:45:00 -0000

Hand-carry. The only way to travel with expensive equipment.

Re: Migrating Firefox/Thunderbird from Linux to OS X

Gen Kanai — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:33:11 -0000

Colin, just FYI you can always get any of our binaries off our FTP server:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/