Mozilla

Aug
12

FireFox 3.6 Alpha – visual tab previews and faster start-up times

Alexander Rehm on August 12th, 2009

Mozilla Labs has just released the first alpha of Firefox 3.6, code-named Namoroka, built on top of Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 layout engine. With it, Mozilla promises JavaScript improvements, startup time speed-ups, visual tab previews and behavior tweaks, capability for additional CSS3 properties, among the most notable changes. The startup time and JS speed improvements are [...]

Continue reading about FireFox 3.6 Alpha – visual tab previews and faster start-up times

Comments Off
Aug
4

FireFox surpasses 1 billion downloads!

Alexander Rehm on August 4th, 2009

The team of Mozilla Labs have done it – the download counter shows more than 1 billion downloads of Firefox! What started as a rewrite of the old Netscape browser has now become the second most used browser world-wide, with an almost 23% market share (according to stat counter’s figures). The recent release of FireFox [...]

Continue reading about FireFox surpasses 1 billion downloads!

Comments Off
Jul
7

Mozilla Jetpack – FireFox add-on development using HTML, CSS and Javascript

Alexander Rehm on July 7th, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, the creative minds behind Mozilla Labs have launched the open source project Jetpack to the FireFox community. Jetpack is an API which enables designers and developers to write add-ons using HTML, CSS and Javascript, encouraging more and more developers to join the 8,000+ people strong add-on community. The Mozilla Labs [...]

Continue reading about Mozilla Jetpack – FireFox add-on development using HTML, CSS and Javascript

Comments Off
Jul
1

FireFox 3.5 – big update, new technologies, faster browsing

Alexander Rehm on July 1st, 2009

FireFox, one of the most popular browsers on the market, has been updated to version 3.5 yesterday. Based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, this browser promises to be about twice as fast as FireFox 3 (and 10x faster than FF2!), to support new technologies, improve its performance and be even easier to use than [...]

Continue reading about FireFox 3.5 – big update, new technologies, faster browsing

Comments Off
Jun
3

Mobile FireFox (codename: Fennec) goes beta

Alexander Rehm on June 3rd, 2009

Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox has reached beta. Mozilla’s answer to the browser wars on mobile devices is here to provide its standards-based open-source browser engine, optimized for mobile, that can be embedded by device manufacturers and others, and is going to be a full-featured mobile browser including support for XUL-based add-ons, delivering on [...]

Continue reading about Mobile FireFox (codename: Fennec) goes beta

Comments Off
Jun
2

Up close and personal – Personas for Firefox

Alexander Rehm on June 2nd, 2009

The never-sleeping minds from Mozilla Labs (who just gave us Bespin a few months back) have recently announced the the introduction of Mozilla Personas,  light-weight skins allowing users to “dress up” the look of their favourite browser via an addon. After installing Personas and restarting FireFox you are able to install skins via a new [...]

Continue reading about Up close and personal – Personas for Firefox

1 Comment »
Apr
16

Bespin – open web development in the clouds

Alexander Rehm on April 16th, 2009

In the beginning of January, Mozilla Labs, the developers behind the beloved web browser FireFox, have announced the release of Bespin, its first  initiative for open web development. Bespin is an open, extensible  web-based framework for code-editing with the aim to increase productivity, promote open web standards and egage users and developers on a high [...]

Continue reading about Bespin – open web development in the clouds

Comments Off