Flock, extensions, and coComment [en]

[fr] Une adresse de site pour convertir des extensions Firefox pour utilisation avec Flock, qui est un excellent navigateur. J'étais déçue de ne pas pouvoir utiliser l'extension Firefox pour coComment avec Flock -- maintenant je peux!

My ex-collegue and now friend [Gabriel](http://iblog.ch/) introduced me to the [Flock browser](http://flock.com/) quite some time back. I [mentioned it quite a bit](http://steph.wordpress.com/tag/geek/flock/) on my [other blog](http://steph.wordpress.com) but I don’t think I talked about here much.

Anyway, it’s great. It’s [Firefox](http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/), but with all sorts of nice bloggy, flickr-y, del.icio.us-y stuff tied in. I’d like to get [coComment](http://cocomment.com) integrated in there too.
(Disclaimer: I work for coCo.)

One thing that makes coComment really nice to use is the [Firefox extension](http://cocomment.com/tools/extension-install). Once you’ve installed it, you don’t need to do anything, and it automatically records all the comments you make (as long as the blog platform is more or less [compatible](http://cocomment.com/supported “Not sure if the page is 100% up-to-date.”) to show them on your user page. [Here’s mine.](http://cocomment.com/comments/steph)

The thing that bothered me when I started using Flock again sometime back was that I had to revert to using the [bookmarklet](http://cocomment.com/tools/bookmarklet) (which, let’s be honest, is a real pain — who remembers to click on a bookmarklet before posting each comment? not I!) Today, as I was starting on my tour of the blogosphere to see [what people are saying about coComment](http://www.technorati.com/search/cocomment) I came upon [another Flock user who regretted the extension wasn’t compatible](http://www.sparkplug9.com/bizhack/index.php/2006/07/06/cocomment/).

So, I headed to our internal bug-tracker to find out what the status of my request for a Flock extension was, and saw that Nicolas (coComment’s Daddy!) was asking for more information on converting extensions. I googled a little and here’s what I came up with:

– [official instructions on converting Mozilla/Firefox extensions to Flock](http://wiki.flock.com/index.php?title=Modify_Firefox_Extensions)
– [an automatic converter — just stick your .xpi url in there](http://www.outraged-artists.com/flockd/)
– [a converted coComment extension!](http://www.outraged-artists.com/flockd/profile.php?name=coComment) (somebody had already been there June 10)

Well, I installed the extension in Flock, restarted my browser, and after a painful start (wouldn’t be able to tell you if it was because of the extension or just good ol’ Windows acting up) it was up and running. I now have Flock running the coComment Firefox extension!

Let me know how it goes for you if you try it, particularly on other platforms. And if you haven’t tried Flock yet, [you should](http://www.flock.com/download/). It’s really neat!

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Firefox Only For White Anglo-Saxon Males? No! [en]

Browse Happy needs testimonials from happy Firefox users who fall outside the “white high-tech anglo-saxon male” profile.

[fr] Browse Happy, un site qui encourage les gens à  se "convertir" à  Firefox, a besoin de témoignages de personnes qui ne tombent pas dans la catégories "homme anglo-saxon blanc branché technologie"... a bon entendeur!

Browse Happy is a neat site encouraging users to switch to Firefox, by publishing testimonials of happy switchers.

However, it does suffer from a problem: the people featured on the site tend to fit the white high-tech male anglo-saxon profile pretty dramatically. This strikes me as an unhappy coincidence, so maybe we can lend a hand in helping them gather a more respresentative sample of testimonials?

If you don’t fit that profile, and want to help spread the word that Firefox is for everybody… send in your testimonial!

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