I always liked the old Mozilla method of allowing searching from the address bar better than the Google search box in Firefox. Thanks to Peter's Blog for showing me how to implement it again and remove the search box.

There's some discussion around the web based on scuttlebutt that Google may be seeking to build it's own browser. Ars Technica points out that Google could easily enough build on top of Gecko or KHTML.

But one thing I would like to point out is that so far, discussions seem to assume Internet browser as the main purpose behind such possible development.

I laughed when I saw this Slashdot comment in the thread about the new Mozilla Foundation.

And yes. It is there:

From the http://www.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] source:

This wouldn't happen to be a reference to Netscape Navigator 4, would it?

Good resource for doing web design

Checky: Mozilla-based Validator - The Checky plug-in for the Mozilla browser is an simple interface for web content and resource developers to free and commercial online validaton and analysis services, including accessibility validation, a color-blind simulator, and other services that check your HTML, CSS, RDF, RSS, XML, etc.
Another Mozilla add-on that is useful for developers is the XUL Preferences Toolbarmentioned in an earlier post about developing XUL applications. [Ed Tech Dev]

XUL: eXtensible User-interface Language - XUL is Mozilla's XML-based User interface Language that lets you build feature-rich cross platform applications that can run connected or disconnected from the Internet (from "The Joy of XUL"). Read on for links to sample XUL applications you can try in Mozilla, and tutorials and resources for developing your own XUL applications. [Ed Tech Dev]