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Kind words for Mozilla and Firefox from the founder of Ubuntu Linux.

The Mozilla Firefox browser is a great example of what happens when you get a small team that has good raw materials and they just relentlessly focus on making something that’s a joy to use. It’s a combination of simplicity and extensibility that gives you the ability to produce something that is both easy to use for a first-time user and powerful for someone who sits in front of a browser every day, all day.

Thanks Mark.

Via TechNewsWorld.com.

Tim O’Reilly points to a bundle of Greasemonkey hacks for Gmail that Gina over at Lifehacker’s put together. Great observation at the end of the post:

In the old days, Microsoft and Netscape fought to lock in users with incompatible extensions. Here we see the same thing happening simply because that one platform is open and the other is not. The users themselves are evolving the browser. There’s no intentional incompatibility (and it’s not in the browser itself). It’s just that one browser is getting more capable than the other as a result of its user community.