I’ve put up some tips on speeding up and optimizing the performance of the Firefox web browser. Hopefully more people switched to it over the holiday season.

The Register gave Sun’s CEO Scott McNealy some space to talk about his Christmas Dream.

The next Sun Developer Network Chat will cover Jini technology for Dynamic Networking, on January 11th at 11am PST/19:00 UTC.

Jini network technology is an open architecture that allows you to build a dynamic, flexible network of services. Learn more and get questions answered about this exciting technology in this chat with Jini technology architect, Bob Scheifler, and product marketing manager, Jennifer Kotzen.

In an “about time!” bit of news, four new Sun.com product pages have been brought into the 21st century including the SunFire V20z Server, SunFire V40z Server, Sun Java Workstation W1100z and Sun Java Workstation W2100z. The workstations might look stupid but the pages don’t. Hopefully this type of detail will be avalible for Sun’s storage line soon too. Defintely a step in the right direction.

Sun has released its SunRay server software version 3, for both Solaris/SPARC and Linux/x86. The download is available at no charge, although purchase of a license may be required for a production environment.

Solaris10 Build 72 has been released! The major changes in this release include the addition of AMD64 support, Webmin, Apache2, and IPMI (Lights out management tool for X86). There are of course also Dtrace improvements, new drivers, and IPC improvements. See the list of features in the “Whats New” doc. This is likely to be the last Express release before Solaris10 ships in late January.