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 [...]
/ August 7, 2008 -
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Well, it is defined by Mozilla Labs as, “An Experiment with Messaging in the Browser”. They launched this new side project yesterday, and I do have to say - like most things they do - Snowl looks very interesting.
Think of it as mixing the web browsing of Firefox with an instant messenger. This way [...]
/ August 2, 2008 -
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The team at Net Applications via their Market Share service have collected some very interesting numbers as it pertains to the current generation browser wars.
With browser market share, Firefox is at 19.22% across all operating systems. In third place is Safari at 6.14% - which shows you it pays to trick people into [...]
/ July 23, 2008 -
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The team over at Wired have posted a very interesting article with Mozilla’s CEO, John Lilly about a number of topics. One of the topics that came up was iPhone and the easy somebody like Mozilla would have developing for it:
Wired: Are you going to develop a version of Firefox for the iPhone?
Lilly: No. [...]
/ July 22, 2008 -
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Firefox 3 has been launched with great success, so now it is time to start looking at Firefox 3.1. Right now it appears Firefox 3.1 Alpha should be released July 25th with a beta coming as soon as early August. It doesn’t look like Firefox 3.1 will just be fixes though, there are a lot [...]
/ July 20, 2008 -
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According to Mozilla Links, Firefox 3.1 will be getting the rumored update to tab switching that got a little buzz after Firefox 3 was launched.
As said, there’s also a new behavior for Ctrl + Tab. Instead of just moving left to the next opened tab, now it switches between the current and the [...]
Has Firefox 3.0.1 given you trouble? Well it sound like you might want to contact the extension’s author to make sure thy are using the right compatibility range. Once again Basil does a great job at explaining this in a way that should make sense to us all.
When add-on authors publish their add-on they [...]