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Help us build the Mozilla Developer Network

Take the survey now.

At Mozilla we’ve been talking recently about how important the web has become to everything around us. The web – and the Internet it’s built on – has become the defining computing platform for this century. And most of that has happened because of web developers, and the freedom they have enjoyed.

Firefox is one of the most important tools for web developers. Firebug combined with Firefox’s strong support for standards means that most web developers are building for Firefox first and then porting to other browsers later.

But even with developers using Firefox for development there hasn’t been an easy way for those of us at the Mozilla project to let you know about what’s going on at Mozilla – what we’re putting in Firefox, what we’re doing to bring the web forward and what we’re doing for web developers. (Although the hacks weblog is the first attempt at that.) And conversely there isn’t an obvious way for individual web developers to give Mozilla structured feedback about what’s important to them or what issues they might be having.

That’s why we’re working on the Mozilla Developer Network. It will serve two purposes:

  1. To provide you with information about what’s going on at Mozilla and around the web.
  2. To give you the chance to give us structured feedback and become part of the Mozilla Community.

Our first step is to do a quick survey. If we can get 5,000 responses to the survey, we’ll release the aggregate results.

The survey itself asks you about how you work, what you think of Firefox and should only take a few minutes to complete.

Thanks! We’ll have more on the Mozilla Developer Network as things progress.

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  1. Bogomil wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 9:52 am:

    Done. Thanks for this survey.

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  2. Daniel Nautré wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 10:58 am:

    Survey done. Thanks.

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  3. Antoine Turmel (GeekShadow) wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 11:04 am:

    Done too !

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  4. fotanus wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 12:02 pm:

    Nice. you got one responce at least, already.

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  5. Kévin Descoubes wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 1:36 pm:

    That’s done :)

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  6. Joris wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 2:44 pm:

    Done.

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  7. Daniel Groves wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 3:01 pm:

    Will do it now =P

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  8. Ken Saunders wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 6:10 pm:

    Cool, only 4,992 to go.

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    “baboon Brig”

    Gee, I didn’t know that they were so troublesome on ships. :|

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  9. Oguz Kaan Cagatay Kilinc wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 6:53 pm:

    i did it… nice and short survey :)

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  10. Zim wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 7:02 pm:

    Done! :)

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  11. Chetan Gole wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 8:32 pm:

    Survey give, i am from India. Just woke up, seen the mail of Jay n given the survey. Thanks :)

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  12. Chetan Gole wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 8:35 pm:

    Got the mail from Jay,n given the survey, i m from India.
    Also given the survey link at DigitalPoint Forums :)

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  13. Pavit Laul wrote on October 27th, 2009 at 8:37 pm:

    Nice little survey. Only take part if you are into developing the web.

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  14. joggink wrote on October 28th, 2009 at 2:18 am:

    Done the survey! Time to spread the word on belgian twitter!

    Reply

  15. slimshock wrote on October 28th, 2009 at 3:01 am:

    Done!

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  16. Shubham wrote on October 28th, 2009 at 5:20 am:

    Done with it…Sweet and Short survey :)

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  17. Srinath P wrote on October 28th, 2009 at 7:02 am:

    if we attach chat fecility with the browser it will be gud and attract peoples to use firefox…. as chat facility is included peoples can chat and browse in the same page …..

    build a forum facility to discuss and share things btw the users….

    this is my comment.. lets join and improve Mozilla….

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  18. Hiram wrote on October 28th, 2009 at 7:56 am:

    Done too.

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  19. Kazım Buğra Tombul wrote on October 28th, 2009 at 3:57 pm:

    Done!

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  20. Abhimanyu wrote on October 28th, 2009 at 10:16 pm:

    Done!!!!

    Reply

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  22. Harsh Gidra wrote on October 30th, 2009 at 12:53 am:

    Done with the survey!!

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  23. TheDeveloperGuy wrote on November 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 pm:

    Done! Thanks for the Survey!

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  24. sleep wrote on November 2nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm:

    done

    Reply

  25. johnjbarton wrote on November 3rd, 2009 at 8:38 am:

    One issue I forgot to raise in the survey: the number one problem with contributing to Mozilla source is the lack of action on bug patches. I did a lot of work to create a patch and no one responded. So now I won’t make another patch. I’ve heard of lots of others with a similar experience. If the patch won’t be taken that’s fine, but not to reply is not.

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  26. Codeslinger at Compsalot wrote on November 3rd, 2009 at 12:22 pm:

    quote: And conversely there isn’t an obvious way for individual web developers to give Mozilla structured feedback about what’s important to them or what issues they might be having.

    yes, that’s very true. web developers have tried to give you feedback about design issues, through bug reports and through the mozdev forums; and it hasn’t worked, our feedback has frequently been disregarded. Something better is needed.

    I am very glad to see that you are making this effort. It isn’t just the communications channel that is needed, there also has to be a *listener* on the other end. so far, many web devs have gotten a very negative impression about the availability of channel listeners. (an echo back responder is insufficient).

    good luck with the survey, hopefully there won’t be 5000 “me too” comments added to this page.

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  27. Codeslinger at Compsalot wrote on November 3rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm:

    by the way, given the negative tone of some of my comments (both here and in the survey), I think it important to say that:

    **** Mozilla Firefox is a Splendiferous Browser!!!!!! ****

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  28. Fábio Tadeu da Costa wrote on November 11th, 2009 at 11:20 am:

    Done with the survey!!

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