Firefox faces growing pains
If the open-source software movement were an upstart political campaign, Chris Messina would be one of its community organizers -- the young volunteer who decamps to New Hampshire, knocking on doors and putting up signs.
In 2004, with the release of version 1.0, Firefox became the dream of techies like Messina. Much in the way he helped coordinate supporters for Dean online, he got behind Spread Firefox, a campaign to rally the open-source base behind the browser.
That effort culminated in a fund-raising drive to advertise Firefox in The New York Times. The ad, a double-page spread designed by Messina, ran on Dec. 16, 2004.
"It was 10,000 people, putting in like five bucks to -- I don't know what the highest was," he said. "It was in the spirit of the Howard Dean campaign."
Mozilla plans to make enough money to keep growing.
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Ever wished you could display more than one site in Firefox at a time? I'm not talking about tabbed browsing, I'm talking about seeing two sites next to one another without having to juggle two browser windows. Firefox doesn't do this natively, but with the Split Browser extension, you can juggle two or more sites in one browser window.
The idea of splitting the browser's content window into panes isn't a new one. Konqueror, for instance, has had this feature for a long time.
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