/ October 14, 2008 -
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Tis’ the season to be getting more Mozilla and Firefox news than I can handle! Here are some of the most recent Firefox headlines to catch my eye.
Firefox for Windows Mobile images surface
But Mozilla says a Windows Mobile version of Fennec is on its way and that an Alpha release could come within the [...]
Mozilla Labs keeps up the good work launching tons of interesting add-ons for Firefox. The latest, Geode is no exception. The idea here is simple, to always know where you are. Using the example they give, this extension makes a lot of sense:
You’ve arrived in a new city, a new continent, a new coffee [...]
/ September 23, 2008 -
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Hey, have no fear – repairs are in progress!
This is the first time I can remember seeing all the Mozilla web sites down, wonder if they are fixing a technical problem, or maybe getting ready to launch something new? Let the speculation begin!
/ September 11, 2008 -
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Yes, it is true because big graphs never lie…
Why debate it, when you have a really big pretty graph to look at? Here is some more on the topic from arstechnica.com.
One of the most impressive features in Google’s open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by [...]
/ September 9, 2008 -
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I have noticed the past few days that FoxieWire.com has been down. For those of you who might not have seen it before, Foxie Wire is a digg-like web site just for Mozilla fans.
Hope all is well in Foxie Wire land! It has been a great alternative resource for Firefox news and interesting links. Would [...]
/ September 5, 2008 -
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Filed under the “whoops! sorry about that!” department of PR over at Yahoo (then again, they haven’t changed it yet either). It appears when you go to Yahoo.com via Internet Explorer 7, you are given a message to upgrade to Firefox 3. How nice of them…
Thanks Yahoo, I am sure Mozilla and the Firefox [...]
Now when you hear mashing or mashups of services, you think of wacky combinations like Yahoogle or Microdigg. A web site or service that awkwardly brings two or more services together. Ubiquity, a new Firefox add-on from Mozilla wants to turn mashing on it’s head. How? They are going to take a more natural [...]
Thanks to a new JavaScript engine (named TraceMonkey) it looks as if Firefox 3.1 is going to be getting a major boost in performance.
Here are the benchmarks thus far:
Be sure to check out Brendan’s Roadmap Updates for more. Also here are a few handy links from John Resig on the testing:
SunSpider, 1.83x faster (released by [...]
/ August 22, 2008 -
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The Extend Firefox 3 contest is all wrapped up, and they have announced some great extensions as the winners. Out of well over 100 entries, here are the best of the best.
Best New Firefox Add-ons
Pencil
Tagmarks
HandyTag
/ August 22, 2008 -
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For those of you who didn’t like Firefox 3, or haven’t gotten around to updating yet - you only have a few more months left. On the Firefox 2 download page, Mozilla states:
Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox [...]