First of all i would like to thank you all for the feedback you’ve given. It’s really inspiring to know that PimpZilla has such a huge fanbase.
The e-mails you’ve send me have certainly motivated me to start working on an upgrade.

Things have changed a bit since my last post; whereas the emphasis used to lie be on being a Mac (daddy), it’s now on being a Daddy. Two young daughters take up most of my spare time. I hope you understand that i reserved the ample time that i had on a project that actually made a bit of money.

Another reason for the long delay is that i also forgot how to set up a working environment for developing a theme.

Having said that, Money isn’t everything and knowledge can be attained. I am therefore happy to inform you that work has started on PimpZilla 5. It will take me a while to build the thing from the ground up. A complete overhaul is necessary, given the nature of the new sourcecode of Firefox. It will probably be available somewhere in the fall.

The status is that i’ve succesfully set up a working environment, and the fur-leopard skin tabbar more or less functions. Watch this blog for progress-reports!

An early version of the next incarnation of this glorious theme is available for download @ pimpzilla.nl. (I’ve been trying to upload the pre-release of PimpZilla 4.0 to the official Mozilla site, but it’s too busy over there).

PimpZilla 4.0 is build from the ground up. No cutting & pasting of the old code, it is completely rebuild with the original firefox-code. That’s a lotta work, and i haven’t finished it yet: the new Pimpzilla hasn’t got the same level of excellence as you might had gotten used to, but it is good enough to browse with nonetheless. You can allready see the outline of some very stylish innovations, such as the urlbar and searchbox …

Expect regular updates @ this site!

P.S. Thanx for the donation Caroline and Robert. Support from fans like you inspire me to keep on developing!

I’ve been getting a lot of mail from Pimpzilla-users asking me for a theme for Thunderbird (the emailclient of Mozilla). Though i would love to build one, this isn’t soon to be a reality. Building a full swing-theme takes up a lot of time, time that i can also spend on projects that actually make some money (like building websites) Surely ya’ll can appreciate to need to get paid!

If a paypall sort of thing can offer some doe, then i would be creating pimpzilla spin-offs all the time. What do you think? Would there be a way to collect cash without offending the open-source spirit (which states that everything is forever costless) ?

By the way: pimpzilla 4.0 is in the works

The first line of a newly learned programming language is often: “Hello world!”. It is also the first line of the new pimpzilla blog, which now uses Wordpress as engine. I needed a new blog, since the old one was covered with spam. I have to say that i completely love Wordpress: it is filled with all the blog-goodies i could ask for. Blogger.com is also very nice  (i tried that one first) but WP offers more options for tweaking. And when you are reading this blog, u probably know that i love to tweak things