Category Archives: mozCC

Updating mozCC

I recently announced the release of mozCC 0.9.0, promising that existing users could simply use the Extension Manager to update. Apparently I was wrong. The update.rdf format changed from Firefox 0.9 to 1.0PR, but thanks to Jed Brown’s excellent resource, that problem has been fixed. Update away!

mozCC Update

From the mozCC News page:

mozCC 0.9.0 has been released. This upgrade includes support for the new Developing Nations license, as well as improved detection and support of the Sampling and Sampling+ licenses.

It’s not a huge upgrade, but more of a maintenance release; check it out and let me know if you find any bugs or [...]

mozCC 0.8.3 released

(reposted from mozCC news)
mozCC 0.8.3 has been released, and all users of mozCC are encouraged to upgrade. mozCC 0.8.3 is a bug fix release which corrects conditions which caused Mozilla and Firefox to lock-up when certain license combinations were encountered. Pages impacted by this bug include the Creative Commons license selection process.
Firefox users [...]

The Importance of dot-slash

Sometimes it’s the little things. Often it’s the little things, I guess. I like to write cross-platform software. The less I need to worry about whether I’m building on Mac OS X, Win 32 or Linux, the happier I am. mozCC was one of the first projects I developed that had [...]

The Road to 1.0

Now that I’m actually getting paid to work on mozCC, we’re starting to discuss what’s necessary to call it 1.0. Generally, I think that there’s three things a 1.0 should represent (I say “should”, not “does”; we’re talking best practice here):

stability: a 1.0 shouldn’t crash, cause corruption or otherwise seriously break things
polish: a 1.0 [...]

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