Comments on: There’s more than one way to skin a Firefox

By: StealTheirLicensedImagesHomepage

StealTheirLicensedImagesHomepage — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:46:00 +0000

@pimpmyhomepage … ouch, nice shameless plugs highlighting a site that is blatantly using unlicensed copies of images from sports teams, actors, musicians etc.. if that sites making money off of those images (which they are from the custom google search boxes on each page) those teams/artists/actors/etc have full right to issue DMCA notices and use legal routes to get any revenue that was made off their copyrighted & trademarked properties.

By: Varda

Varda — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:15:48 +0000

I love personas!!!

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:26:16 +0000

lol

By: Brij Charan

Brij Charan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:32:37 +0000

@srw, well I have 26 tabs open, with flash, gmail, youtube, etc.
I’m using 389mb.
And its 3.08 i’m using.
(WITH a boom installed.)

By: Justin Timberswamp

Justin Timberswamp — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:33:43 +0000

Are you serious? Opera will be amongst the Dinosaur bones in the near future.

By: Tanmay Shanishchara

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:01:13 +0000

I’m using Firefox persona and very happy with it. Why should firefox limit itself by not working on beauty part of its amazing product. I believe they are doing GREAT job.

By: fb211701094

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:20:45 +0000

Yuck!

By: srw

srw — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:19:36 +0000

Today my firefox with less than 15 tabs with “simple” html pages was using more than 650mb, while my VMWare running linux using less than 100mb.

Ahhhh, I forgot to understand that is a FF feature!

By: PimpMyHomepage

PimpMyHomepage — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:44:55 +0000

@Chris, i was implying that i am not sure if PimpMyHomepage.com got licenses to use those images, not brand thunder…BTB, they have Capitals theme too, http://pimpmyhomepage.com/hp/nhl_washington_capitals/en/

Maybe you want to talk with Capitals if PimpMyHomepage has rights to use their logo??

By: Afro

Afro — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:33:42 +0000

Yo, I went on dat site and couldn’t find a skin for black people. Dis is RACIST!!

By: Screen Sleuth

Screen Sleuth — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:15:58 +0000

Very cool! Another reason to love Firefox.

By: Brij Charan

Brij Charan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:04:29 +0000

Actually, Brand Thunder booms are not themes.
We are significantly smaller than a theme, while still providing the dynamic features of an extension.

Where booms differ is through interactivity. We allow the user to have a connection to brand, not just ’see’ the brand…but actually get news, media and links to their website.
And again, this is all done with a smaller footprint than a typical firefox theme, but still utilizing the full skinning of the browser.

Most performance issues can be tracked to an extension/plugin, which may be working in the background while you browse. For instance, some RSS reader extensions may slow down your system, but this is typically due to loading a ‘large’ feed. So you have to expect some slow down because the reader needs to parse through all that data.

The theming system is fairly optimized, with various media loading and caching enhancements. Plus themes are stored locally on your machine, so there should be no real ’slow’ down as the theme is loaded from your hard drive.

All of this, as Mike Beltzner said, is thanks to Mozilla’s great extension system. I think Mozilla deserves a lot of praise for creating the largest, and IMHO, the most versatile browser extension system to date. Mozilla is also very active with the community, and is always working on the feedback we provide.

By: antje wilsch

antje wilsch — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:19:49 +0000

Columbus, Ohio is a nice city to live in. lived there several years. Love German Village and that area especially. Glad to see a growing tech community there.

By: antje wilsch

antje wilsch — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:17:47 +0000

from an aesthetic point of view, nice designs

By: Adron

Adron — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:14:52 +0000

We’ve been working with BrandThunder since end of last year. Great folks with a strong product and excellent customer service.

We launched the Point Boom a few months ago and are seeing strong user metrics. It creates a unique extension of our brand, with an RSS fed sidebar that delivers our content easily to our Firefox users.

We’re still working on monetizing the effort, but at least user response has been favorable so far.

http://www.1057thepoint.com/Browser/

By: BillH

BillH — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:10:21 +0000

Of course you realize that Google Chrome installs services that are constantly chatting with the “mother ship”. I, too, thought Chrome was pretty cool until I found that even without launching Chrome that Google was in contact with my PC. The result? Goodbye Chrome.

By: Kevin Dwinnell

Kevin Dwinnell — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:04:12 +0000

Thanks, Simon.

Was a blast to be there. And BBC is an amazing group of entrepreneurial-minded students.

Lots a great stuff happening in Columbus OH.

By: Trips

Trips — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:02:35 +0000

Performance impact? You guys forget that most of the consumer public doesn’t give a damn and couldn’t care less (or even notice unless things slow to a crawl).

But yeah, I cringe. I can imagine tweens with Hannah Montana and Jonas Bros Firefoxes already.

By: Kevin Dwinnell

Kevin Dwinnell — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:02:26 +0000

I can’t speak for all extensions and themes, but nothing we do affects or contributes to a degradation in performance.

To Raghavan’s point, these may not be for a power user if you’re already using a lot of browser real estate for other things. The Booms bring the look and feel (and the emotional connection) of a team or entertainer – and they also bring their content and functionality. That takes some space.

Love the comments though. Great to get additional perspectives.

By: haha

haha — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:53:27 +0000

Don’t be a fool. Use Opera.