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Mozilla<\/a> just hit critical mass. I had read a fair bit about the XUL architecture<\/a> and Gecko rendering engine<\/a> but I didn’t really get it until recently. David Boswell<\/a>’s article, Let One Hundred Browsers Bloom<\/a> on O’Reilly Network<\/a> is a good introduction to the myriad possibilites that are now unleashed. 101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot<\/a> on XulPlanet<\/a> also is a good overview of what it’s all about. Ars Technica<\/a> ran a good review<\/a> when Mozilla 1.0 was released, although it’s now slightly dated. <\/p>\n One of my favorite applications (or “plug-ins”?) that takes advantage of Mozilla’s extensibility is MultiZilla<\/a>, which does all sorts of crazy things with tabbed browsing. The webpage describes all this fairly well; my favorite extension is one where you can take a whole set of tabs and “bookmark” them as a “groupmark”, and then later open that groupmark and get all of those tabs together again. I do this to read the news—I have seven or eight news sites I like to read first thing every day, so I’ve groupmarked them, then I go through each one, opening up new tabs (by middle-button-clicking) on articles I’m interested in. As I finish going through everything in a particular tab, I close it with a Mouse gesture<\/a> and move on to the next one; essentially going left-to-right, new articles leapfrogging to the end. <\/p>\n I suspect most people don’t necessarily want or need to use their web browsers this way, but for some it opens up new ways of interacting with the web. I believe eventually this will lead to new ways of thinking about the whole technology. We’re now at a point, finally, where the web browser can<\/span> be a platform upon which castles are built. If nothing else, that’s a good thing for competition<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mozilla just hit critical mass. I had read a fair bit about the XUL architecture and Gecko rendering engine but I didn’t really get it until recently. David Boswell’s article, Let One Hundred Browsers Bloom on O’Reilly Network is a good introduction to the myriad possibilites that are now unleashed. 101 things that the Mozilla […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}