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MozTips has now moved to moztips.com . This site is gradually being phased out.
About MozTips:
MozTips is dedicated to providing help on the open source browser Mozilla.MozTips is currently run by one person: Jayesh Sheth. Do you have a question which was not answered here? Do you have a suggestion for this site? In either case, please me.
Please note that the older email address listed here was removed and "turned off", because of excessive spam. Please use the new one listed above.
About Jayesh: Poet at heart, Mozilla user by serendipity, human being by birth. I like reading Kahlil Gibran and Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry, and listening to Jewel sing "Grey Matter" and U2 sing "Dreaming with tears in my eyes." I also like happy songs, but poignant melancholia is often more memorable than sugarcoated dancebeats, remixed or otherwise.
I *do* watch MTV every now and then (but the images are not that exciting on a black and white TV). But what has been concerning me more now-a-days is not how much skimpier the outfits in Shaggy's latest video can get; all of that hip shaking seems so irrelevant today: with Israelis and Palestinians killing each other, India and Pakistan beating their chests with cries of "glorious nuclear war", and the world trade center having been demolished last September by hate filled, misguided terrorists, I wonder what is next. "Where is the world going?" I often ask myself, and "what are people doing to help their fellow humans out?" and "does anyone really care at all?" and "when will all this hate in the world end?".
Mozilla does provide a useful distraction from all the chaos in the world today, but it is more than that.
Why I like Mozilla:
Mozilla is a product, a technology framework, and a community. I like all three. Mozilla the product provides people with a great browsing experience, without having to go through a monopolist company's "technology tax" toll-booth. It is "free as in freedom", and a credible alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Mozilla's technology framework is open, flexible and a technological marvel. I often think about how Mozilla's technology framework could change the world: help people in developing countries use the Internet at a low cost (by running on Linux) and in their own language (using a localized version of Mozilla). These are all dreams right now, but some day - some day, when I am able to, I would like to make them a reality.
Mozilla's community is great, and I enjoy working within it. There are many things which could be improved to make the Mozilla community more accessible to newcomers, and to make communication among its members better. I hope to be able to help out in solving these problems. Mozilla's community has come a long way in the last four years, and I wish it great success, always.