I just uploaded a new version of the Force RTL extension, which finally fixes the extension to work on recent Firefox and Thunderbird versions (Firefox 3.6 and Thunderbird 3 betas and above). This new version of the extension adds support for the new intl.uidirection.ab-CD preference added in bug 478416 by Neil Deakin. So, if you are a Firefox or Thunderbird developer and want to know how the application looks like in RTL locales (Arabic, Hebrew and Persian), or if you're simply curious about it, and don't want to learning one of those languages so that you can actually use a localized build, please go and download version 2.

As many of my fellow Mozillaians probably know already, I've moved to Toronto to work full-time for Mozilla Corporation. It's been a very exciting process so far. Toronto seems like a great city, and it's been very nice to meet some of the fellows which I've been known only online in person, and it's even greater to get a chance to work with this group of very smart people on the project that I love.

Some of you might have noticed, but the test_is_Ehsan_available.js test has been failing intermittently for the past few days. The reason seems to be frequent network problems and other complications that he's been writing about, and unfortunately it doesn't seem like there is anything our wonderful IT team can do to bring him back up. I'm sure that this is not serious enough for the tree to get orange, or even a mild yellow, and certainly not serious enough to close the tree, halt the release, abort the project, etc.

Tehran saw something today which was unprecedented and astonishing in the past 30 years. Mousavi had announced yesterday that he's going to hold a rally today at 4:00PM in which people will start walking towards the Azadi (Freedom) square starting from the Enghelab (Revolution) square. He had submitted an official request to the Interior Ministry requesting them to issue an official approval for the rally. The Interior Ministry quite predictably denied this request, and in their official announcement stated that a number of outlaws had announced that they're going to have an assembly today but any such assembly is illegal and the attendants will be prosecuted.

Yesterday was the 10th Iranian Presidential Election. The major candidates for presidency were Mousavi and Ahmadinejad, the current president of Iran. Many of the Iranians were willing to try to make sure that Ahmadinejad would not get re-elected for another four years, and most of them started supporting Mousavi. The competition became more intense after some of controversial debates on the national TV, and supporters of Mousavi and Ahmadinejad started to protest and demonstrate on the streets, vouching for their respective candidate.

نسخهٔ فارسی فایرفاکس ۳٫۵ بتا ۴ به همراه ۷۰ نسخهٔ محلی دیگر فایرفاکس ۳٫۵ هفتهٔ گذشته منتشر گردید. این نسخه که دومین انتشار فایرفاکس فارسی پس از نسخهٔ ۳٫۱ بتا ۳ می‌باشد، هم‌اکنون قابل بارگیری و نصب می‌باشد. نمایی از این نسخه از فایرفاکس را می‌توانید در زیر مشاهده نمایید. تیم فارسی‌سازی فایرفاکس در حال تلاش برای انتشار رسمی نسخهٔ فارسی فایرفاکس به همراه نسخهٔ نهایی فایرفاکس ۳٫۵ می‌باشد. در این مرحله بیش از هر چیز مایل به شنیدن نظرات شما هستیم، پس لطفاً این نسخه از فایرفاکس را بارگیری و نصب نموده و نظر خود را (مخصوصاً در صورتی که به مشکلی برخوردید) در زیر همین نوشته به اطلاع ما برسانید.