The Boston At 17, Ross and another Netscape programmer, David Hyatt, started a AOL ultimately spun off the project and created the not-for-profit Mozilla Hyatt left to design Apple Computer Inc.’s Safari Web browser, but Ross Firefox was officially released Nov. 9. It was used by 4.6 percent of We are in principle in favor of any project that diversifies a market Firefox is as close as we have come in a while. We like the look and We are forced to save it, then switch to Photoshop and open it, which It seems like such a minor detail, but as they say, that’s where the article from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Boston Globe today has an interesting article on the kid who wrote most of Firefox, the open-source browser that is starting to chip away at IE’s monopolistic dominance of the number one application class in the world today. At … Continue reading
\n Globe today <\/a>has an interesting article on the kid who wrote
\n most of Firefox, the open-source browser that is starting to chip away
\n at IE’s monopolistic dominance of the number one application class in
\n the world today. <\/p>\n\n
\n side project that became Firefox. They wanted to strip down Netscape
\n and the Mozilla suite on which it is based.<\/p>\n
\n Foundation to develop Firefox and related software.<\/p>\n
\n stayed and helped fix Firefox bugs from college.<\/p>\n
\n Web surfers in early January, and that number could reach 10 percent
\n by mid-2005, according to WebSideStory, which tracks browser use. Microsoft’s
\n Internet Explorer has dropped to 90.6 percent this month from 95.5 percent
\n in June.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n and especially Bill Gates stranglehold on the world of PC computing.
\n In addition, we support the idea of open source software, and know a
\n bunch of really quality people who write the stuff, and have tried many
\n interesting open-source programs. However, we don’t use any of
\n it regularly, at least as far as we know (is bit torrent open source?)<\/p>\n
\n feel, and it’s faaast<\/em>. Rarely crashes and has tabs, which we
\n have become addicted to. But the deal breaker is a simple omission which
\n really puts
\n a crimp in the Dowbrigade blogging style – the lack of a "copy to clipboard"
\n option when right-clicking on an image on a web page.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/safshot.jpg\")
In Safari
\n (we already eschew IE except when previewing pages designed for clients)
\n when we right-click (or option-click on the iBook) we get
\n the menu seen on the right. If the image already has the desired
\n size and cropping, we select "Download image as…" However, if we need
\n to resize, crop, touch up or combine images to get the effect we want,
\n we "Copy Image to Clipboard" and then paste it into a new document in
\n Photoshop CS, which we have open on our desktop at all times. Photoshop
\n 5, which we used for years, had a "New image with clipboard" option under
\n the File menu which is gone now, but when there is an image in the clipboard
\n the new version opens a blank document of the same dimensions so pasting
\n the image in is only one addition click away.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/firebox.jpg\")
The problem
\n in Firefox is that although the right-click menu we see when we click
\n on an image is quite a bit longer than the corresponding
\n version in Safari, the is no "copy to clipboard" to be found. We
\n can instantly add a bookmark or view the image in another window. Copying
\n the image location just puts the image URL into the clipboard, not the
\n image itself.<\/p>\n
\n involves SEVERAL additional clicks and distractions, interrupting the
\n creative flow we depend on (the Dowbrigade is easily distracted) and
\n cutting into our production capacity. In a life as tightly regimented
\n as ours, there is precious little time to be lost in unnecessary clicking
\n and navigating through files.<\/p>\n
\n devil lives. We really think that if the next version of Firefox fixes
\n this deficiency, we might cut the cord to Safari forever.<\/p>\n