Disasters at Whistler raining on Mozilla’s summer parade
A rock slide, power outage and loss of a top engineer of Firefox 3 have some attendees of Mozilla’s 2008 summer summit wondering if the ghosts in Redmond aren’t raining on their parade. The Firefox summit is behing held at, ahem, Whistler, the code name of Microsoft’s Windows XP.
First, a giant rock slide on Wednesday closed the road from Vancouver to Whistler, trapping many at the summit in and any latercomers out. Since the road will be closed for five days, attendees will have to take an alternative route to the airport — turning a three hour ride into an eight-hour odyssey.
Then the hotel hosting the summit lost power this morning after a truck hit the transformer.
That’s on top of the loss of a significant Firefox exec.
Also from Paula: New tab switching, search results features debut in Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1
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