It’s odd that it takes a person with an immeasurable visual acuity to notice that the favicon on Microsoft’s “Internet Explorer 8 – Browser for the Better” web page uses the IE6 logo.

They either don’t give a damn, or are completely clueless. Perhaps they don’t give a damn about being clueless?

It’s just stupidity. They really should close up their browser shop. Especially the marketing department for it.

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Is it because fewer and fewer Internet users are using IE to surf the Internet that Microsoft had to come up with a new way to deliver dangerous content to them? Could it be that Microsoft is even more cunning and evil than we all suspected? How about a conspiracy (type) theory?
Perhaps Microsoft isn’t just relying on sponsored ads on Bing for revenue as we’d all think. Perhaps it goes deeper and they count on the fact that after channeling data destroying content, naive and inexperienced computer users will just go out and buy a new PC that (of course) contains a Microsoft operating system and trial MS software to get people to buy more MS software and use more MS services.
Ok, I know that’s not all true but you’d have to agree that it would make a good movie.

My first and last search on Bing.
Search query: firefox
Results (first seen):
“Sponsored sites”
firefox – www.GetFirefox.com
Download Firefox 3 for free! Your favorite browser, better.

Firefox Free Download- Firefox.2009-Version.info
Fast, More Secure & Customizable Browser. Latest Version Download Now!

When I clicked on that second prominently displayed sponsored ad for Firefox my antivirus software (Avast) blocked access to the site. That has only occurred maybe 3 times in the (nearly) 4 years that I’ve been using it and of course I’m very glad that it did. Imagine other Internet users without proper security precautions in place? I don’t care to bother with seeing what IE does with that link and with my network shield turned off. I’m more concerned about Firefox user’s safety so my best advice? Use Google!

Update: (and a serious one) Um, duh, it’s an ad for Firefox so of course I care about what IE users see (Ken = dumb ass).
Same search query for Firefox on Bing via IE8, the only sponsored ad and the very first result seen is for “Firefox Free Download- Firefox.2009-Version.info”. Yep! The site that is reported to be a malicious one. And for the heck of it, Same search query yet again for Firefox on Bing via Fx 3.0.10, the only sponsored ad and the very first result seen is for “Firefox Free Download- Firefox.2009-Version.info”. Mozilla should be very concerned. This could give Firefox a very bad reputation amongst average IE users looking to try out Firefox.

I’d also like to note that the WOT Firefox add-on warned me about the site (even though Avast blocked it) and chances are would have blocked access to it if Avast hadn’t.

Avast “Last Attacks” Log:
01.06.2009 19:20:58 Network Shield: blocked access to malicious site www.2009-version.info/firefox3-0-8-promo/index.php?source=CCN-CD277-MSN5426US1-firefoxpromo&msnId=ANGUS [ C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe ( 2220 ) ]

Bing – Search for firefox using IE8

Avast “Last Attacks” Log:
01.06.2009 19:30:36 Network Shield: blocked access to malicious site www.2009-version.info/firefox3-0-8-promo/index.php?source=CCN-CD277-MSN5426US2-firefoxpromo&msnId=ANGUS [ C:\Program Files\Shiretoko\firefox.exe ( 1080 ) ]

Bing – Search for firefox using Firefox 3.5pre

Highly Recommended:


Avast
Avast has saved me many, many times from losing everything (I’m sure). I’ve tried AVG and was seriously unimpressed. Where AVG would report on something dangerous as being a potential problem through a manual scan, Avast would report the same as a dangerous infection and then block it and give me the option of what to do with the threat in real time (On-Access Protection). So get it. Free program (pro available), free software updates, free and real time virus definitions database updates.
Avast Home Edition (free)
Avast download.com page (5 star editor rating)
Avast Awards
Ya, ya, you probably only need it if your running Windows but it is cross platform.

WOT (Web of Trust) Firefox Add-on.
WOT Home Page

Thanks for reading.
Ken

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Source: CNET

The Webware 100 Awards honor the people’s choice in Web apps–the best sites and services chosen by you. The process of selecting the Webware 100 started with user nominations, which are now closed. Webware editors will select 300 finalists for users to vote from. Voting on these starts on March 31. Come back then to make your vote count!
Vote until April 30
Winners announced May 19

It takes just seconds to vote.

Vote for Firefox > Browsing
cnet.com/html/ww/100/2009/poll/browsing.html

Vote for Thunderbird > Communication
cnet.com/html/ww/100/2009/poll/communication.html

I was about to take a quiz on Facebook last night ( ARE YOU DUMB ?! – http://xrl.in/1vyw ) and before doing so I looked over the page and I noticed the following at the bottom.

Now I was certain that Rhian had not had anything to do with it, and I very rarely click on random ads, but this appeared to be Facebook related and I was curious about the IQ quiz so I clicked on continue, the site quizyou.net loaded, I clicked on next and fortunately I got the following warning from WOT (Web Of Trust Firefox add-on). WARNING! This site has a poor reputation. Trustworthiness > Poor, Vendor reliability > Poor, Privacy > Poor, Child safety > Very poor.

I decided to investigate a little further (as I always do to decide for myself) so I viewed WOT’s Security Scorecard for quizyou.net and saw this, “Warning! This site is rated as dangerous”.
46 people marked quizyou.net as “Fraud, scam, phishing”, and 8 for browser exploit.
I was convinced that the site was dangerous but I wanted to get a second opinion from another reputable security agency for argument sake and so I ran quizyou.net through McAfee’s SiteAdviser service and they reported the following. “We tested this site and didn’t find any significant problems.” However, in the comments below that in the User Review Summary for quizyou.net you’ll see that 5 reviewers marked quizyou.net as Phishing or other scams, and one as Browser exploit (out of 8 reviewers, one was missing, the other didn’t matter).
As you can imagine, McAfee’s SiteAdviser service has lost all credibility with me as did their other security products years ago.

Refreshing the page that the ARE YOU DUMB quiz is on doesn’t load a new ad, it loads a slight variation of the same ad every time that is displayed at both the top and bottom of the page.

While I entrust my life to Firefox due to its unsurpassed security features, I still try and take extra precautions and obviously in this case, it was a good thing that I did. No matter how secure you think that you are and how secure your browser is, it can take one click to ruin it all for you.
At last that I knew, there were more than 64 million web sites online and so I can’t imagine any single precaution, software, or service that can protect you on every site and from people insistent upon stealing, destroying, and exploiting your personal information and data. It takes a combination of things to stay safe.

If you ever come across such sites, you can help us all to be safe by using Firefox’s Report Web Forgery tool. While on the site in question go to, Help > Report Web Forgery… It takes just seconds to do.

So now you know. Be careful but more than anything, be prepared.
I can’t imagine how and/or why Facebook isn’t aware of this site that Facebook is generating revenue from. My social life and interests are spread across several communities and because of that, my friends are spread out so please pass this along to your friends and hopefully along the way it will grab Facebook’s attention and they’ll address this particular issue and prevent it from happening again.

Thanks so much for your time.
Ken

WOT (Web Of Trust) is a free Internet security addon for your browser. It will keep you safe from online scams, identity theft, spyware, spam, viruses and unreliable shopping sites. WOT warns you before you interact with a risky website.

http://www.mywot.com

WOT

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3456

Furthermore, protect yourself from visiting the same dangerous site again.
Create a blacklist, simple to use, access settings via Tools > FoxFilter Preferences
FoxFilter 6.0

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4351

FoxFilter 7.0 (Latest)

http://inspiredeffect.com/FoxFilter/

Related Pics
WOT-Warning for QuizYou.net

http://www.accessfirefox.org/KS_Cell/Facebook/WOT-Warning.png

QuizYou.net Home Page

http://www.accessfirefox.org/KS_Cell/Facebook/QuizYou-net-Home-Page.png

QuizYou.net Ad, top and bottom of page

http://www.accessfirefox.org/KS_Cell/Facebook/QuizYou.net-Ad-Full-Page.png

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The launch of the new SpreadFirefox.com is just around the corner and your help is needed to test it out to make sure that it’s ready for prime time. It has an awesome new look and layout and many new features that you’re sure to enjoy and find useful for creating your own Firefox promotional campaign, joining and following already established ones, and grabbing official and user contributed Firefox materials to help spread the word.

Head on over to the Spread Firefox v3 staging site and test out and explore it as deeply as you’d like. If you know of a friend not currently a member of SFx, invite them to sign up at the staging site. It would be great to hear about their first experience(s) and impressions.
Please provide your feedback in the Spreadfirefox v3 forum.

Your current SpreadFirefox.com credentials will work on the staging site.
When you visit the site for the first time, you’ll get a “Secure Connection Failed” notice or see “This web site does not provide identity information” when you click on the warning icon in the location bar because self-signed certificates are currently being used. All that you have to do is add an exception (once) to access the site. There is a pictorial guide on how do so below.

See you there!

SFx v3 Staging Site

Post top image from Chicks Who Click

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I’m finding myself frequently replying to posts all over the Internet in defense of Firefox and man it’s exhausting and becoming a full time job. When did all of this happen anyway? Weren’t we all just celebrating Firefox together focused on a new and exciting Web?
As I understood what Mozilla wanted from us who chooses to promote Firefox is to focus on all of the great things about it and on an open and participatory Internet freely accessible to all and not on how badly IE sucks and how quickly we’d like to see it fall.
I had (it has subsided a bit) a genuine hatred for Internet Explorer but I’ve always wanted to be a good representative and ambassador for Mozilla so I’ve held back, but now, we have Chrome.

I love Google. I use many of their services and they send me a huge amount of visitors (40,000+ last month on one site), but the people who are choosing to use and support Chrome are really coming off as abrasive, ungrateful idiots and instead of “browser competition is good for all”, or, “use anything but IE” or, “an open Web is the top priority” they’re all trashing Firefox and badly. It was that way between Firefox and Opera for a while but that cooled down long ago but it never got as bad as the hateful crap that Chrome users are spewing.
The browser that freed them from “Mammon” and made interacting with the Internet safer, more fun, and more productive now “sucks” is “crashy”, “bloated”, “slow”, “dead” etc, etc, etc.
Un-freakin’ believable!

It blows my mind that we all have to work so damned hard to selflessly get people to use something that greatly enriches their Internet lives, helps to prevent the theft, destruction, and exploitation of their personal, financial, and computer data, excites and empowers them in numerous ways, is always chosen as the best in its class by all reputable news and media outlets and it’s totally free in more ways than one.
What other single product on the planet on or offline compares to that? NONE!

Yes, I’m obviously frustrated and a bit pissed off, but I’m in this for the long haul so I’ll get my composure, work on a calm and tactful plan of attack and defense, and move forward.
And if anyone is interested in starting a Chrome Idiots Response Unit, feel free to contact me.

The following is a comment that I made on Lifehacker’s Hive Five Winner for Best Web Browser post. After re-reading my comment, I realized how sarcastic I was and that perhaps writing a post such as this one would allow me to air things out and cool down a bit.

Thanks for your time and ear, err, eyes.

(Comment)
LMAO!
Seen side by side between the comments here on this page.

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It’s odd that there’s no ad for Firefox, but it’s the winner here, and it’s the second most popular browser on the planet.

And to add to the commentary about Firefox and why it’s so popular, you cannot discount that it isn’t just Firefox the browser that people love and support, it’s Mozilla and its mission statement.

A few other things.
The winners are usually placed at the top whether it’s a web page, medals ceremony or other, not 3rd.
The Internet Explorer logo is the old IE6 one, not IE7 or 8.

But I’m glad to see that Firefox came out on top (even though placed third) especially since its nearing its death due to Chrome.

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Firefox vs FireFox

This post is being written to set the record straight and as an (unofficial) addendum to the official Firefox Logo Guide written by Mozilla’s John Slater.

Let it first be known that I am not (and don’t claim to be) an English professor or speeeling bee champion. In fact, if it wasn’t for the built in spell checking feature in Mozilla’s applications (and other non-Mozilla products), you’d think that I was a four year old randomly pressing keys on his dad’s keyboard. However what do I know and that I’m absolutely positive about is the proper presentation of the word Firefox.

To see Firefox spelled as FireFox has always really annoyed me and my attempts to correct people one at a time hasn’t had any impact at all. I’ve seen (and continue to today) popular and reputable news and media outlets run stories with FireFox in the headlines and story’s bodies. This really boggles my mind because most writers and reporters have on-staff fact checkers and proofreaders and if not, their names are going on the articles so you’d think that accuracy would be a top priority but it isn’t.
I’ve also seen many, perhaps 50 or more Firefox add-on developers use FireFox in their add-on’s titles and descriptions. That one really blows my mind even more than it boggles it.
I just don’t understand any of it especially considering that you will never see FireFox on an official Mozilla site (unless used in a similiar context as this post).

“Ken, so what’s the big deal?”
Well, simply put it is the wrong way to present the word Firefox as it pertains to the free and open source software developed, maintained, and distributed by the Mozilla Foundation.
We do not spell and present IE as InterNet Explorer, or Microsoft as MicroSoft, Thunderbird as ThunderBird, Facebook as FaceBook, Whois as WhoIs and so on.
The word Firefox and that spelling of it is a registered trademark of the Mozilla Foundation. I have no idea who owns the rights to FireFox, but it isn’t Mozilla (that I know of). I can’t even force Google to show results for that.
And for users of Firefox in particular, doesn’t the red underline under FireFox tell you anything at all? If you right click on that word, are the suggestions just lies and an attempt to confuse you?

Please, do me, Mozilla, and the World a favor and spell Firefox as it is supposed to be and when you see it presented in any other way, take a second to leave a comment or send an email to the person who is advocating the incorrect use of the word Firefox. Any presentation of the word Firefox other than Firefox is an improper representation of Mozilla Firefox no matter what content is attached to it.

Logo vs Logo

This next section address another misused (and equally annoying) representation of a Mozilla trademark.
All too often around the Internet people are using the old, outdated Mozilla Firefox logo that was introduced in Firefox 0.8. Again, news and media outlets are notorious for this. As you can see below there are quite obvious differences between the two logos but to enforce my point, I am providing a detailed list of the differences that I have found and my visual acuity is actually immeasurable. If I can see the differences (highly zoomed of course), then I see no reason why others can’t.

Logo Differences:

• Different color values throughout
• Land masses – different shapes
• Outer drop shadows – different values
• Fox right drop shadows – different values
• Different head shapes (new head shorter, flatter)
• Different ears

Current (new) Logo:

• Added top gloss
• Added top dark blue stroke
• Added hair tufts to top of Fox’s head
• Added more (and detailed) hair tufts to back of Fox’s head
• Less detail to hair tufts/fur on Fox’s body
• More emphasis and highlights on flames
• Deeper shadow to flames (left)
• Fox face – shorter, different shape, more details, longer snout, different nose
• Other differences?

So in all fairness, if people around the Internet are going to use the old Firefox logo when referring to and writing about current versions of Firefox, shouldn’t the same apply to others?

Again, please spread this, post it, share it so that Firefox gets represented accurately and properly.

Thanks for reading.
Ken

• Firefox Logo Differences ODT
• Firefox Logo Differences PDF
• Firefox Logo Differences PNG (.ZIP) (600px x 1000px)
• Firefox vs FireFox PNG (652px x 502px)
• Mozilla Firefox About Windows PNG (548px x 298px)
• Download all of the above (.ZIP)

Official Mozilla Firefox Logo Guide
Includes downloadable, hi-res, large, Mozilla Firefox graphics.

The contents of this post are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license with the exception (of course) of the Mozilla Firefox logos and wordmark. Those are trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation.
You are free and encouraged to use and post the materials here to help spread the word and educate others on the correct usage of two of Mozilla’s trademarks which are not currently being respected.

I don’t have to list the reasons why Firefox 3 is the World’s best Web browser, you already know them but I will tell you about a very cool feature that you just may not know about. It’s APNG support. The APNG (animated PNG) specification was created by Stuart Parmenter and Vladimir Vukicevic of the Mozilla Corporation in 2004 and support for it was added to Firefox 3 trunk builds in 2007.
There’s more info about APNGs, PNGs and why they are better than GIFs below.

I’ve taken advantage of the capabilities of this wicked cool format (New England expression) and created some holiday graphics especially for Firefox 3 users to use, enjoy, and share in the form of animated snow globes featuring the Firefox, Thunderbird, and Mozilla logos.
The animation effects will only be visible in Firefox 3.0+ (and a few other non-Mozilla based applications).
In other applications that do not support the APNG format, the graphics will appear as static PNGs with true alpha transparency so they’ll blend in nicely with whatever colored background that you use on your web pages but I made these as a special treat specifically for Firefox 3 users.

There are three different snow globes available in two different styles. Firefox, Thunderbird, and Mozilla with or without text reading “Happy Holidays”. Each are provided for downloading as a ZIP, TGZ, or Tar + Bzip2 package that contains the following sizes and formats.

• 200×250 APNG – Logo and Happy Holidays text
• 200×200 APNG – Logo
• 125×160 APNG – Logo and Happy Holidays text
• 125×125 APNG – Logo
• 200×200 PNG – Logo
• All use a transparent background

Get the Mozilla Snow Globes

But wait, there’s more!
Also available on the same page as the snow globes are Mozilla Christmas tree ornaments based on 7 Mozilla logos for use on Mac, Windows, Linux, and Web pages, and 4 different Firefox / Thunderbird wallpapers in sizes from 1024x768px up to 1920x1200px.

Mozilla Christmas Tree Ornaments

Holiday Wallpapers



Mozilla Themed Holiday Graphics

This was all a tremendous amount of work so please Share This or Digg it

PNGs vs GIF
I’m someone who has a great interest in computer generated graphical arts and when I first learned about APNGs, my excitement was equal to that of when I first discovered tabbed browsing.
For the average Joe or Jane who may not be familiar with graphics formats, typical animated graphics that you see on the web are in animated GIF format (with more leaning towards Flash animation nowadays). Animated or not, I’ve always been a much bigger fan of PNG over GIF (and JPEG, only good for photos) for the following reasons.

(On most images) PNGs can achieve greater compression than GIFs resulting in smaller file sizes which saves disk space and makes uploading, downloading, and displaying PNGs faster.
PNG gives a much wider range of transparency options than GIF including alpha channel transparency.
PNG gives a much wider range of color depths than GIF (truecolor up to 48-bit compared to 8-bit 256-color), allowing for greater color precision, smoother fades, etc.

To put it plainly, PNGs and now APNGs provide the best looking high quality graphics that can be used on any colored background due to their true alpha transparency capabilities a feature not available in animated GIFs.

• Animat Firefox add-on Used to create the snow globe APNGs
• APNG Edit Firefox add-on The first APNG Firefox add-on
• APNG Assembler Online APNG generator
• The APNG Project
• APNG Specification Mozilla Wiki
• APNG on Wikipedia
• PNG on Wikipedia

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Thanks, and happy holidays!
Ken

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Whether you’re a fan of them or not, toolbar buttons can save a lot of time by cutting down on the amount of time and actions that it takes to browse through menus or move around your screen to activate a particular function or feature or to change settings.
With that being said, I want to introduce you to the Custom Toolbar Buttons Maker by Michael Buckley that automatically generates a single installable XPI of a compilation of toolbar buttons that you create by selecting from a variety of more than 85 toolbar buttons for Thunderbird.

The Custom Toolbar Buttons Maker is an alternative to the highly popular Toolbar Buttons add-on that provides full sets of toolbar buttons for Firefox (100+ buttons), Thunderbird (85+ buttons), and Sunbird (25+ buttons) and is designed for those who wish to choose their own buttons and/or have no need for a full set.

Get Going
Creating, installing, and using your own customized set of toolbar buttons for Thunderbird is quite simple.
Go to the Custom Toolbar Buttons Maker for Thunderbird page and make your selections. A description for each button and its function is provided by way of tooltips.

When you’re finished with your selections, click on the “Make It!” button and your XPI will be generated.

Right click on the “Download” link and select “Save Link As…”

Open the Add-ons Manager in Thunderbird and drag your newly created XPI to the add-ons manager to install and select Restart.
When Thunderbird opens up again, open the Customize Toolbar manager (right click on a toolbar > Customize) and drag your new toolbar buttons to the desired location.
Be sure to select “OK” instead of closing the Customize Toolbar manager. Although you can close the Customize Toolbar manager in Firefox and your customizations will be saved, the same doesn’t apply to Thunderbird (even in Thunderbird 3.0b1).

If you find that you’re running out of toolbar space or you would just like more options, then get the TB Custom Toolbar (also by Michael Buckley) that allows you to add new toolbars to Thunderbird the same way that you can in Firefox.

Compatibility
All of the toolbar buttons for Thunderbird are marked as compatible with Thunderbird 1.5 to 3.0b1pre and the TB Custom Toolbar is compatible with Thunderbird 1.5 to 2.0+ but as I write this, they all work just fine in Thunderbird 3.0b1.
You can either install Nightly Testers Tools and select “Force Install” when installing the add-ons or bump up the max version number in the install.rdf from 3.0b1pre to 3.0b1 for the toolbar buttons, and from 2.0.0.* to 3.0b1 for the TB Custom Toolbar.

Get Toolbar Buttons
Custom Toolbar Buttons Maker for Thunderbird

TB Custom Toolbar

Other Links
Custom Toolbar Buttons Maker for Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird

Toolbar Buttons (full sets) for Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird

About Michael Buckley

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Ken – My Thunderbird

After nearly 4 years of being with Yahoo web hosting, MouseRunner.com has moved to DreamHost. I will give Yahoo credit for keeping Mouse Runner online with no interruptions at all since February 15, 2005. That’s pretty amazing, but that’s all that I’ll give them credit for.

Without any experience at all, I decided to create a web site mostly as a hobby to help to lessen the affects of winter boredom. After checking out many services, I went with Yahoo GeoCities. It was all point and click setup and extremely easy to use. After time I wanted more features and control and I didn’t want ads on my web site that someone had chosen so that began my search for a web hosting company.
I must have checked out 60+ companies before deciding to go with Yahoo. I was a huge fan of all things Yahoo and I had already tried out their point and click and drag and drop site building software which was very appealing compared to the HTML that I was trying to learn which was completely foreign to me and the cost of their hosting plans seemed reasonable so Yahoo became my choice.

After spending hundreds upon hundreds of hours of creating MouseRunner.com (and 2 other sites at the time), I was becoming more knowledgeable about web standards mostly due to the fact that I was a very strong Firefox advocate. I was curious as to how well the sites that I had created with Yahoo’s Site Builder followed these web standards so I began checking them out and to my surprise and utter disgust, MouseRunner.com’s home page had(has) more than 230 errors in its coding preventing it from validating thus making it inaccessible to many Internet users.

To make a long story short, I’ve had to start from scratch and learn HTML and CSS in a hurry. I’m very far from having mastered either but I’m on my way with it.
Yahoo has told me that it would be too expensive to re-write their site building software. What this means is that they are fully aware that their software (which they actively promote) produces web sites that will not validate thus preventing Internet users with disabilities from fully accessing those sites and its content.
If it weren’t for the fact that I still have a site with hundreds of errors itself due to Yahoo’s software then I’d start a class action law suit. Instead of that (for now) I’m focused on completely re-writing MouseRunner.com by hand line by line and page by page. Keep in mind that I’m far from a coding guru. It’s only for the fact that I have some amazing friends that are helping me out that there has been any progress at all.

Michael Buckley has established all of the primary coding and pages that makes up my 4 web sites. He is a highly skilled and brilliant coder/developer who has made it very easy for me to build off of what he has created by using what he has written as templates to create new pages and features. Now 3 of my sites are compliant to the W3C’s web standards unfortunately, MouseRunner.com isn’t yet one of them.
Re-writting MouseRunner.com has turned out to be a much tougher process than I had imagined but there is great progress which can be seen on www.MouseRunner.net, the building grounds for the new MouseRunner.com.

So here we are finally off of Yahoo’s servers and onto DreamHost’s.
Full credit for that goes to my other great friend Otto de Voogd of 7is7.com. It was on Otto’s suggestion that I moved to DreamHost for its features and costs, and it is Otto who has successfully setup and migrated my 4 web sites to DreamHost. He’s also setup the MySQL databases that are used by all sites, he installed WordPress onto two of them, and installed and setup StatEye (free and open source) which provides me with traffic (and other) stats from the sites.

Certainly not to be left out from being mentioned is Jamey Boje (a.k.a GraphicsGuru). Jamey’s been a strong and consistent supporter of AccessFirefox.org and he’s made significant graphics contributions over the years to MouseRunner.com including Mouse Runner’s games logo, site promotional graphics (current ones and ones for the new Mouse Runner), and he’s also donated Mouse Runner’s new logo (as seen on MouseRunner.net).

In closing, I owe a lot of gratitude to Mozilla for attracting such kind and talented people as the 3 that I have mentioned who I all met through Mozilla projects. We’re all good and long time friends.

Thanks for reading.
Ken

P.S. Use Google!!

If you’re in need of a web host or a better one, I highly recommend that you check out DreamHost. Otto has DreamHost coupons available that will get you a great deal.
Contact Michael for web design and development and other coding needs and check out some of the awesome software that he’s created including many popular Firefox Add-ons.
Jamey is also available for web design projects plus any other graphics needs that you may have including logos and promotional materials.