So it just so happens that some of the work I’m doing before I leave IBM involves the CCK, so I ended up working on it and fixing some bugs. In addition, a company asked for a feature that was pretty easy to implement. So here for your testing pleasure is:

CCK Wizard version 1.2.5

Here’s a summary of what’s changed:

• Dropped support for Firefox 2
• Added support for specifying sites where cookies are always allowed
• Added support for specifying sites to deny popups/installs/cookies
• Rewrote CCKService XPCOM Component to be a little cleaner
• Fixed problem where sometimes a created CCK wouldn’t install (ZIP path problem)
• Fixed problem where sometimes bookmarks weren’t created on first load
• Fixed problem where bookmarks weren’t created in the same order as specified in the CCK Wizard
• Made the additional help menu look better on Mac

Enjoy!

In my work with Brand Thunder, one of the things we’ve struggled with is bundling an extension and theme together as one package. To accomplish this, we had created an extension that installs a theme at startup. This worked, but created some confusion when trying to uninstall. We finally have a solution to this – it’s called the Brand Thunder Boom!

Brand Thunder Booms are like Personas on steroids. Booms don’t just change a background image; they provide lightweight theming that can change background images, colors, navigation buttons and even tabs. They can also add toolbars with custom navigation and widgets for a particular brand as well as sidebars for things like videos or news feeds.

Booms also support dynamic switching. So if you have five booms installed, you can move between them without restarting your browser.

We have four booms available right now in the gallery with more to come. And if you want to extend YOUR brand to the browser, contact Brand Thunder.

P.O.D. Boom Music Video