Intel Labs has a new project out Parallel Extensions for JavaScript, code named River Trail. River Trail brings the processing power of Intel’s multi-core CPUs and their vector extensions to web applications. With River Trail it will finally be possible to stay in the browser even for more compute intensive applications like photo editing.
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For a long time I simply just didn't have the time to do development on my addons.

I've created 6 addons and some are fairly popular.

Linky which is the most popular one just passed 620.000 downloads and has more than 35.000 active daily users. Linky enables you to quickly open multiple links. You can also download, validate, copy and bookmark multiple links. All in one click.

Launchy which enables you to open links in other applications has around 23.000 daily users and more than 380.000 total downloads.

There's a rumor out that Sony is looking into bringing Firefox to the PS3 platform:

"We recently received a tip from a source very close to Sony who says that they have been in talks with Mozilla lately about possibly porting firefox over to the PS3. That said, our source made sure to point out that they were unsure if any deal had actually been reached at this point, but it is great news none the less considering the complaints Sony has been getting about the lack of reliability with their current built in PS3 web browser."

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I'm here at EU MozCamp 2009 in wonderful Prague, and just saw that the about:memory feature landed on trunk.

I had the chance to talk to Vladimir Vukicevic, how implemented the infrastructure for it, and he told him that this is just an initial landing. The about:memory is not yet finished and it can and will be improved in loads of way.

The final/ultimate implementation will include data for how much memory JavaScript, images, etc takes up.

I'm trying to figure out a way to achieve this:

1) I want links to open in the same tab. So if I click on a link that has target=_blank or target=_new in my Mozilla Firefox I want them to open in the same tab. Popups I want to open in a new window.

2) I want links from external applications to open in a new tab but same window. So if I click on a link in my mail program I want a new tab to open with the link so that I don't loose data on the current tab.

HOW HOW HOW do I do that?

If I set "browser.link.open_newwindow" to 1 which means "Open links, that would normally open in a new window, in the current tab/window." it fixes problem 1 but not problem 2

A couple of days ago the first big part of the auto detection of mail accounts landed in Thunderbird. I've blogged about the feature before.

This means that you no longer have to enter all of the technical information to add an account. Just enter your name, email and password and Thunderbird will try to auto detect the rest.

Really really cool. Unfortunately it doesn't support Google Apps :(

Click on the image to see the full screenshot:

All of my domains, both personal and at work, are using Google Apps. But the new auto detection cant detect my setup. Damn. It sounded so cool.

My domain at work is dinnerbooking.com which is hosted by Google Apps. The IMAP is at imap.gmail.com, but Thunderbird doesn't find that since it doesn't do any DNS lookup.

Hopefully this get fixed later...

If your site's uptime is:
99% - it's down 3 days, 15 hours, 36 minutes
99.9% - it's down 8 hours, 45 minutes, 36 seconds
99.99% - it's down 52 minutes, 33 seconds
99.999% - it's down 5 minutes, 15 seconds
99.9999% - it's down 31 seconds
a year. Pretty interesting...

Last Thursday the "Videnscenter for Software" held a conference on "Open Source software in the public sector." And Mozilla was represented at the conference.

I've heard about the conference and learned that you could ask for a free pass for the conference. Instead of only getting the free pass, I also got the opportunity for Mozilla to have a booth at the conference.

So Mozilla shared a booth with Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org. I organized to get some merchandise from Mozilla Europe (big thanx!), so we got both posters, badges etc.

I also had my laptop running some Mozilla Firefox promotion videos, which is so much better than just normal slides. The videos I used are the ones from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/video/. Hopefully there's gonna be more of these videos.

We, Hansen from Mozilla Denmark, and I, attracted a lot of attention. Most people already knew Mozilla Firefox and a lot of them actually ran it at home.

At the conference we also meet up with Christian Sejersen from Mobile Firefox. He brought along a Nokia N810 device with the latest Fennec beta on it. Walking around showing the mobile version of Mozilla Firefox also attracted a lot of interest.

By the way. Now I'm also an official part of Mozilla Denmark. A couple of years ago, I thought I was Mozilla Denmark :)

The Mozilla Firefox marked share in Denmark is very low. Denmark is Microsoft territory. So perhaps events like this can be a way to change that.

Just a quick note about a cool improvement that is gonna hit x86_64 builds of Mozilla Firefox soon:

"Currently, JPEG SSE2 code is only Windows x86. I will add it for x86_64 platform. After adding it, JPEG decoding is 15% faster."

More information in bug 475225

The seven, perhaps unknown, things about Henrik Gemal.

I was tagged by Fabien Cazenave who started to learn XUL by tweaking my Launchy extension. Cool!

So here are the rules to this:
1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.

Here we go:

1: I've been charged with importing pornography into India
When I worked in India I was contacted by a Danish company that sold CD-ROMs (back in the days) and they asked me if I wanted to help them get into the Indian marked. No problem. Send me some CD's and I see what I can do. Unfortunately there were some porn CDs among the CDs they sent. Don't know if I can return to India...

2: I was the top Bugzilla bug reporter
When Bugzilla was at 100.000 bugs Asa Dotzler pulled some data out of Bugzilla. We were 10 people that filled over 700 bugs each and I was at the top with 1764 bugs and Seth Spitzer was second. Read the article.

3: I played a lot of AD&D when I was younger
I loved playing Advanced Dungeon & Dragons. Still dream about creating another adventure and play again.

4: I played soccer for almost 20 years
We were once at the Danish national championship and became number 7. We also had a cool sponsor so I meet a lot of the top soccer people from the 90' like Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard and most of the Danish stars like Preben Elkjær, Frank Arnesen and Morten Olsen.

5: I lived in India for more than a year working for a Indian advertising company
What an experience! Quite amazing. I saw things that you can only dream about. Everything for dead poor people and filty rich people like I never seen before. Read my Indian story.

6: I have visited 35 countries or 15% of all countries
I love traveling. My wife and I did a lot of backpack traveling before we got our first child. Backpacked around in Thailand, Laos, Peru and Bolivia. See my map.

7: I have a road named after me
In the town of Kirkeby on Fyen in Denmark there is a road called Gemalvej. My ancestors come from around there. We traced the name Gemal back to around 1600. In Danish Gemal means spouse/partner/wife/husband.

I tag:
- Asa Dotzler
- Christian Sejersen
- Allan Beaufour
- William Quiviger