1.0.1 Nightlies... and Bikinis

Keep your eyes on the nightly Firefox builds and mozillaZine, as the final, bugfixed preference window update should be posted shortly. Ben Goodger (Inside Firefox) has been working on the new prefwindow for quite a while now, but it wasn't quite ready for the 1.0.1 release.

In "God, that makes me feel old" news, there's a Slashdot blurb about the tenth anniversaries of Yahoo!, Apache, eBay, Amazon, and Netscape. I started using the internet at the insistence of my friends (including Garrett) in late 1995, so while I didn't get in on the ground floor, I was there at the emergence of the Web as an entity unto itself. At that point, Netscape 1 was still the dominant browser, and Mosaic and LYNX were still useful. I can remember frequently checking how my own website looked in LYNX and doing a ton of chatting via a VAX app called Talk.

I saw the February issue of Wired Magazine tonight, the one with Blake Ross on the cover and the feature article on Firefox, but I didn't buy it. I picked it up, flipped through it for a couple minutes, and realized that there wasn't anything remotely interesting in there, other than the Firefox article, which I've already read online. And it was five bucks. So I reached up to put it back into its slot in the magazine rack, and as I did so, I noticed the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue not a foot away. It was six bucks. I bought that instead. And I didn't even open it.