Category: mozilla

  • Too Many Life Events

    The other day I logged into IBM’s benefits system and received the message “You have too many life events.” I knew what the problem was – it couldn’t process both next year’s enrollment and my return from leave of absence (more on that later), but those words really stuck with me. I’m currently reading the…

  • Time for Something Different (Well Not That Different)

    The month of June has some particular milestones in my IBM career. June 29, 1989 was my first day as a co-op. June 7, 1993 was my first day as a full-time employee. And just about every promotion I’ve ever received was in June. And now it’s time for another one. Effective June 30, I…

  • Firefox and the Windows Registry

    So it ended up that it wasn’t that easy to switch our installer to use “Product Version” to determine what version of Firefox was installed, so I was asked to provide information on how to use the Windows Registry to determine the installed version of Firefox. Since that information is useful to everyone, I thought…