Back in October we knew that Mozilla was going to spend a lot of work making Firefox 3 fit into the different platforms available. Alex Faaborg, a User Experience Specialist over at Mozilla, just wrote about some early renditions of what the cross-platform icons will look like. He said that on "."
I'm not sure about you, but I have a collection of bookmarks that is almost unmanageable. Some of the bookmarks I probably haven't touched for years, and I thought it was time for a little spring winter cleaning!
Mozilla pushed out Firefox 2.0.0.10 on Tuesday which fixed three highly rated security vulnerabilities, but a rather critical bug slipped through their test routines. The issue lies in the which is used by some extensions and websites to display images. An example of this can be seen here where a line graph is supposed to appear on the left side using the source image as the background.
For some reason I'm really impressed at how fast Mozilla's Calendar duo is progressing. They just pushed Lightning & Sunbird 0.7 out the door, and they include a completely redesigned event interface along with hundreds of bug fixes. You can see what the new event manager looks like above, and it is much less cluttered than the older version.
One of the new things in Ubuntu 7.10 is the ability to read and write to NTFS formatted drives, which is great for Windows XP and Vista users. What that means is that you can create a Firefox profile in Windows and set it up so that Ubuntu uses the exact same profile.
Mozilla was rolling in the green last year when they announced their 2005 revenue of $52.9 million, but in 2006 they were up 26%! Yep, their 2006 revenue totaled more than $66.8 million. As Larry Dignan points out Mozilla gets over 85% of it's revenue from Google.
Pidgin is an extremely popular open source instant messenger, but have you ever thought to yourself what it would be like if Mozilla created something similar? It would be possible to make the instant messenger do almost anything you want with the use of extensions ...
Mozilla has started to to post some more information regarding how Firefox 3 will adapt itself to the look of multiple operating systems. One of the big changes that Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's User Experience Leader, mentioned in an article was the two different icon sets that will be created for Windows alone. There will be one for Vista and one for XP.
I've been wanting a slim browser for quite some time, and Mozilla's new WebRunner browser is definitely just that. Mozilla cutout all of the frills to give people a one site at a time browsing experience that doesn't even have an Address Bar, bookmarks, forward/back operations, or many other things that you have become accustomed to a browser having.
Mozilla has been working hard to get Places into Firefox 3, and they are making some good progress. Back in September we saw a nice mockup of what to expect from the Places Organizer, and about a week after that Oropher pointed out in our forum that the first major UI change occurred.
Mozilla made an announcement today regarding their future plans to deliver a Mobile Firefox. This isn't the first time that we've heard of something like this from Mozilla, but this time they sound extremely serious.
It's not often that I come across a Firefox extension that does so much that it actually warrants its own CyberNotes article, but Tab Kit is one of those extensions. The only thing is that the extension is so new that it's still in the Mozilla Sandbox, and therefore requires an extra step or two to actually get it installed.
It's been an extremely sad week for Mozilla's Thunderbird email client. We've seen the only two full-time developers announce that they will be leaving the organization at the end of this week. News of this started when Scott MacGregor, the lead Thunderbird engineer, said that October 12th will be his last day as an employee. David Bienvenu then followed up Scott's announcement with his own.
We always get a lot of positive feedback on the "best of" or "top 10" Firefox lists that we put together, but we're far from the only site doing that. So today I thought I would focus on making an a semi-comprehensive guide for the lists that are available on the web.
Two weeks ago we covered over a dozen Firefox extensions that have memory leaks, and now Mozilla's very own Jesse Ruderman has brought up a similar issue in regards to Firefox 3's performance. Jesse said that both Mozilla employees and volunteers have been working tirelessly to fix the memory leaks that exist in Firefox 3, and in the end he hopes that ""
We weren't exactly sure whether the next milestone in the Firefox 3 pre-release lifecycle was going to be an Alpha or a Beta, but we know now.
Mozilla has posted Firefox 2.0.0.7 which is an extremely critical update for all Firefox users out there. There is only one thing that has been fixed, but it's a QuickTime vulnerability that could compromise Firefox and your computer.
It's been nearly two months since Mozilla originally announced that they were going to help Thunderbird "spread its wings," and it looks like we finally have a result of the talks. Mozilla has decided to branch Thunderbird off into its own subsidiary, and it will be started with $3 million in seed money that has been provided by the Mozilla Foundation.
In the latest Firefox 3 meeting notes Mozilla linked to a mockup of what they would like to see the Places Organizer look like when all is said and done. Despite being mentioned for the first time in the meeting notes this design () is actually several weeks old.
Back in February Firefox hit 300 million downloads, and now 7-months later it is rolling the counter over again as they hit 400 million downloads! Of course that is the number of downloads the browser has, and doesn't actually represent the number of users.
