Try searching the 2001 index made available by google for Firefox.  What we know as Firefox today is way different than what we used to know as Firefox back then...

My work on the Private Browsing patch is soon going to enter a new stage.  Four of the modules that the patch is touching already have unit tests.  The only part of the patch which is not correctly implemented yet according to the recent changes in the functional spec is the download manager module, which needed a back-end change to support in-memory databases.  I've implemented that in another bug I filed to track it, and my patch there is waiting for review.

Last night I decided to try the performance of the new TraceMonkey feature.  TraceMonkey is an improvement to Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, which enables JIT optimizations to SpiderMonkey, which means that the engine optimizes the parts of your JavaScript code which run repeatedly (e.g., loops).  For more information on TraceMonkey, check out Brendan's announcement of TraceMonkey.  I gave Mozilla's Dromaeo, Webkit's SunSpider, and Google's V8 Benchmark Suite a try, and the results follow.

If you're a heavy user of Gmail and tabs in Firefox, you have certainly noticed that when you switch to the Gmail tab in your browser, Gmail shortcut keys do not work, unless you focus the page (via clicking on it, tabbing through it, etc.)  Edward Lee has put together a very useful Greasemonkey script, which is a definite must-have.  Go ahead and install it right now, and no more extra Tabs/clicks!

Firefox 3 release party in Tehran was held at the IT Culture Center on Thursday.  About 100-120 people showed up, and it was impressive, considering the event being held in the middle of a long weekend at the summer, which is an ideal time for many for travels.  I spoke at the event on the Persian localization of Firefox, an overview of the history of Firefox and what to expect in Firefox 3.1 and 4, and also an introduction of some very popular Firefox extensions (yeah! that's three talks!).  I think the talks were good, apart from the faulty video projector which threw a shade of blue on all of my carefully crafted slides (sigh).