Mozilla has preempted its own official launch on Tuesday with finished versions of Firefox 6 on its FTP server (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows). What is becoming the case in Firefox releases, it is already online via FTP to help coordinate the release. The interval between the FTP posting and the public debut may […]
Mozilla has put the final release of Thunderbird 5.0, its email client software, up on its servers for downloading. 5.0 represents the app’s first major release in about 18 months. The free app (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) has faster startup, tabs that can be reordered and dragged to different windows, attachment sizes are displayed […]
Mozilla has released the first beta of Thunderbird 5.0, its forthcoming multi-platform e-mail client. The beta makes a raft of changes, including the introduction of a new Addons Manager and extension management API. Plugins can now be loaded in RSS feeds by default, and an altered account creation wizard should provide better setup. Tabs in […]
Mozilla has posted the first official beta release of Firefox 5, its next browser upgrade. Changes from Mozilla’s experimental Aurora channel were merged and tested over the weekend. The update marks a switch to an accelerated development schedule, closer to that of Google’s Chrome, which has a major update every several weeks and is already […]
When it first came out in 2005, the Flock browser was a Mozilla/Firefox derivative with a novel difference: a RSS, and later social-network, sidebar that allowed users to keep one eye on feeds while continuing their usual web browsing, and also featured drag-and-drop photo uploading. Today, such mashups take many other forms — from menu […]
Mozilla has now released the Firefox 4 Release Candidate for portable devices running on Android. There software is available in more than 10 languages and brings with it many improvements, most of which are mentioned in the video below. Other than faster scrolling, there is said to be an overall improvement in responsiveness. Added features […]
Since its official release yesterday, Mozilla’s Firefox 4 web browser is at nearly seven million downloads and counting, according to a live counter. This accounts for nearly two percent of the worldwide Internet browser market, said StatCounter, which easily beats out Microsoft Internet Explorer 9’s 2.3 million downloads over the course of 24 hours. As […]
Mozilla has today made the release of Firefox 4 official. Windows, Mac and Linux versions are available, and in numerous different languages, ranging from mainstays like English, French and Chinese to less commonly-supported languages like Icelandic and Catalan. Only a handful of languages are still limited to v3.6.15, namely Assamese, Georgian, Occitan and Serbian. Version […]
Mozilla’s senior engineering director Damon Sicore said on Tuesday that the finished version of Firefox 4 should be ready on March 22. Barring any last-minute issues in a meeting late Wednesday morning, the plan is to have Release Candidate 1 to become the final release. In the event of a serious bug, a second release […]
Web browsers will eventually and need to stop using Flash, Mozilla vice president Jay Sullivan said in an interview Friday with Fast Company. He likened Adobe’s technology to a “plug-in prison” and expected that browsers like Firefox would eventually transition over to HTML5 to avoid dependence on one company’s app. He went on to say […]
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