Those folks at PortableApps are getting faster and faster. Just a few hours after Firefox 3 beta 5 was released, the portable version was available for download. Actually, it might have been available immediately, but we didn’t think to look for it until a few hours had passed.
What exactly is a portable app? Well, in [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 5, Gran Paradiso’s milestone #13 is here and the list of features and improvement it brings along is pretty long so let’s get started. Oh, for those following Firefox 3 development you may want to jump to the sections marked in green for what’s new in Beta 5.
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Two of the main new features Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 introduced last week, Activities and WebSlices, are now available for Firefox users.
From the Article: “Activities is a simple way to add web services you can direct text selections to for further detail. For example, you can select a word of a web page, select [...]
Fortunately, Mozilla has not been shy to set as many milestones as needed, and given the many new features and tweaks Firefox 3 introduces, it seems anything but sensible, specially considering it’s not only about Firefox but Gecko, the web page rendering engine and the Mozilla platform as a whole which affects the many products [...]
Mozilla is in informal talks with mobile operators about its mobile Firefox project, which the organization hopes will shake up the market as much as the introduction of the desktop browser did in 2004. “Mozilla’s mission is to break open a closed market,” said Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, during a visit to [...]
Mozilla has been working hard at making Firefox 3 faster than its predecessor, and it looks like they might be succeeding. They’ve recently added some significant JavaScript performance improvements that beat out all of the competition, including Opera 9.5 Beta. Plus, it comes out to be about ten times faster than Internet Explorer 7! Things [...]
The Mozilla Foundation announced today that its Mozilla Messaging mail subsidiary has begun operations. The initial focus will be on the development of Thunderbird 3 which the company said will deliver significant improvements including integrated calendaring, better search and enhancements to the overall user experience.
Thunderbird is a free open source email application used by millions [...]
Mozilla has quietly launched a new viral campaign in support of Firefox, complete with song (YouTube TC exclusive above) and some fighting words against Internet Explorer.
The main part of the campaign is a site by the name of “Fight Against Boredom” which apparently means don’t use Internet Explorer, use Firefox. The site itself features a [...]
Mozilla has just announced a new initiative that on its face sounds a lot like Google Browser Sync. The project aim’s to give Firefox users increased “user control over personal information.” In other words, you’ll be able to store your browser data including bookmarks, history, and customizations on a Mozilla Server. That way you can [...]
I love me some Firefox — that is no lie. It’s open source, relatively exploit free, and extensible so you can make it whatever you want. It’s also not Internet Explorer, and that’s even more of a plus.
What really helped to establish Firefox as the favorite of the tech savvy is tabs, but sometimes, your [...]
The newest Firefox extension from Mozilla labs, called Persona, is designed to make lightweight browser theming even quicker and easier. Among other things, Persona changes Firefox themes on-the-fly from a small menu in your browser’s status bar. New themes are automatically updated to Persona, so there’s no searching high and low for themes—instead, just find [...]
Mozilla Corp. said developers have handed off the second beta of Firefox 3.0 to internal testing, and will ship the next preview of the open-source browser before the end of the year. The tentative release date for Beta 2 has been set for Dec. 21, said Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s interface designer, in a posting to [...]
Running beta versions of your primary browser is a little like converting your car to run on cooking oil biodiesel. It’s probably going to work OK, but be prepared for a few surprises along the journey. If you’re ready for the social, swing by the Mozillaplex and download your copy of Firefox 3.0 beta 1, [...]
Mozilla Corp. will rush another version of Firefox to users as early as next week, the company’s user interface designer said Tuesday, to fix five bugs it introduced in last Wednesday’s security update. Firefox 2.0.0.8 patched ten vulnerabilities, including three critical flaws, but also shipped with five regression bugs — problems unintentionally introduced when code [...]
Firefox 3 is going to have a whole bunch of new features, including a new rendering engine and a new way to organize bookmarks, but probably the first thing users will notice is the new skins - and those skins will be designed to integrate smoothly into your operating system. In fact, as of right [...]
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