Hello world!

Well after registering this blog over 6 months ago I’ve finally got round to adding a little content and making my first post. Wahoo! There’s not much to read here at the moment, but over the coming weeks and months I hope to add some more stuff and start to write about how I feel the Firefox project is going. I’ve been following Firefox development since Phoenix 0.6 so I’ve got a bit of history already, having been through three release-cycles (1.0, 1.5 and 2.0), and due to an administratative mix-up at Mozilla HQ I was accidentally ;c) invited to the Firefox 2006 summit where I met loads of cool people and really felt the energy and passion everyone involved in Mozilla give off about wanting to make the web a better place.

In the past I’ve found myself writing something about Firefox and then not posting it, unsure as to where exactly I should post my semi-random brain-spew; to the wiki? to the newsgroups? to the MozillaZine forums? I really didn’t know then, but I do now - they’ll get posted here! That’s the beauty of Firefox being such an open project; anyone can follow what’s going on and write about it.

I’m not a Firefox programmer (I really need to get my PC sorted so I can at least start to build it myself) but I do quite a bit of bug triage and nightly testing, and lots of reading about what other people are doing and what plans are being made. And I need to get involved in QA more because that’s something anyone can do and an area where more help is always welcome. In the past weeks, as part of the drive to Lower the Number of Unconfirmed Bugs, I’ve been going through 100s of such bugs filed against Firefox and trying to close as many of them as is correct to do so. There’s been quite a bit of response from peoples’ bugs I have commented in, with many being closed WORKSFORME by the reporter themselves.

If anyone has any ideas as to other content I could add here then please let me know, but without further ado, let the blogging commence!