Distrust for Windows Could Help Apple
A new report out by market research firm Forrester suggests that Apple could double its market share through defections from the Windows platform alone. The firm said that much of this has to do with customers' deep distrust of Microsoft.
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14.4.2006 A First Look at Mozilla Firefox 3.0
ArsTechnica have posted an in-depth look at Mozilla's new project, Firefox 3.0. The significant jump from 2.0, released a mere 2 months ago is mainly due to Mozilla's use of the new Gecko rendering engine.
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13.12.2006 Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Beta 2
Beta 2 of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 has just appeared on the Mozilla FTP in the release folder, it's safe to say that this is Beta 2 and not a pre-beta.
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31.8.2006 Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Download Available
The Mozilla Corporation have today uploaded the follow-up to their hugely popular web browser, Firefox.
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23.10.2006 Mozilla Firefox 3.0 RC2
This second Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only.
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6.6.2008 Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 DOWNLOAD
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is now available for download. Also known as the 1.8 Beta 4 milestone, this is the first beta release of the next major Firefox update and is aimed at testers, extension/theme authors and Web developers.
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Download Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC3
Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3 is now available for download. This is the third release candidate of our next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to our developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback.
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18.11.2005 Mozilla Firefox 2 RC3 released
The latest iteration of the Firefox 2 RC branch is RC3 which was released a few hours ago.
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17.10.2006 Microsoft, Mozilla look into browser flaws
Microsoft and Mozilla are each working to tackle recently disclosed security flaws in the Internet Explorer and Firefox Web browsers.
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20.2.2007 Mozilla FireFox v1.6 Alpha1 nightly
Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform.
It includes a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, hassle free downloading, and improved privacy and security.
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17.12.2005 Firefox 1.5.0.3 Candidate Builds Now Available On Mozilla FTP
Firefox 1.5.0.3 is going to be released within the next few days in order to fix a critical security update that was found earlier this week. For those people that cannot wait for the build to officially be released please visit the download link below.
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1.5.2006 Final Version of Mozilla Firefox 2 Will Be Released Oct. 24
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is in final version; now its largest competitor will be also.
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22.10.2006 WHS Add-ins
Below you’ll find a list of published Community Add-ins for Windows Home Server.
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20.7.2007 Microsoft to Add AntiSpyware into Windows Vista
Microsoft has confirmed plans to bundle anti-spyware protection into Windows Vista, a move that is sure to raise eyebrows among competitors and possibly antitrust regulators.
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Office 2007 "getting started" add-ins
Contain of Excel 2007 Add-in, PowerPoint 2007 Add-in and Word 2007 Add-in.
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11.2.2007 XP MCE 2005 Hotmail Add-in Due Soon
According to Sean Alexander (Microsoft Group Product Manager Windows Vista) an add-in for Hotmail functionality in Windows Media Center Edition 2005 is due for release next week.
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Microsoft to Add Wireless Video Sharing to the Zune
Microsoft's portable media player, the Zune, has just been released and already talks have started about future updates to the device.
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14.11.2006 Windows Vista Doesn't Add DRM To Unprotected Content
Robert McLaw: Of all the FUD that's out there about Vista, the false information about Vista's DRM is the FUD that frustrates me the most.
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28.2.2007 Forced Software Upgrades Can Add Up for Vista Users
Windows users contemplating the cost of upgrading to Vista may need a fatter wallet than they thought.
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6.3.2007 Wake-On-LAN Add-in for Windows Home Server
One of the great things about Windows Home Server is it can act as a "proxy server", giving you access to any Remote Desktop capable machine on your LAN.
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3.5.2007 Office 14 to add more online document sharing
Microsoft won’t be turning Office 14 into a completely Web-ified productivity suite, a la Google Docs.
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13.2.2008 Microsoft to add the Genuine Advantage nag to Office
Microsoft is set to begin a pilot of a new Genuine Advantage anti-piracy mechanism for Office that will add a “nag-like” feature, akin to what is now part of Windows Vista, to Office.
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9.4.2008 Microsoft add cheaper server platform to range
According to an article by Techspot, Microsoft has announced a version of Windows designed for small businesses, named Windows Server 2008 Foundation.
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1.4.2009 Microsoft Will Add Video Games to Zune by July 2008
Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, will make video games available on its Zune music player within 18 months, said Peter Moore, a vice president in the company's interactive entertainment unit.
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9.1.2007 Vista Ultimate's promised add-ons just broken promises
Microsoft Corp. has failed to deliver on its promise of downloadable extras for the highest-priced version of Windows Vista, critics claim.
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29.6.2007 Position Changer Add-In updated for Media Center in Windows Vista
Stephen Toub : Back in early 2005, I wrote an article for MSDN on implementing add-ins for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
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5.1.2007 Microsoft Plans to Add Rootkit Detection to Windows Live OneCare
Windows Live OneCare is right on track to getting an anti-rootkit upgrade. Microsoft plans to added rootkit detection capabilities to its line of security products, but not only OneCare will be impacted by the change.
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20.3.2008 Registry Tweaks to Enhance Your Windows XPerience - Part VIII: Add or Remove Programs
In part eight of the our tweaking series we’ll go through a few Control Panel optimizations for Windows XP power users that may not interest most people using their operating system for basic tasks.
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26.12.2008 Mozilla accepts, will work with Microsoft to see Firefox, Thunderbird work on Vista
Mozilla has accepted Microsoft's offer for the two competitors to work together to ensure Mozilla's Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email suite work more seamlessly on Redmond's upcoming Windows Vista operating system (OS).
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25.8.2006Distrust for Windows Could
Help Apple
A new report out by market
research firm Forrester
suggests that Apple could
double its market share
through defections from the
Windows platform alone. The
firm said that much of this
has to do with customers'
deep distrust of Microsoft...
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14.04.2006Firefox 3 Add-ons Manager is almighty too
Firefox Add-ons Manager has finally got extended to feature complete integration with
Mozilla Add-ons (AMO)
site through a new page added to the Add-ons Manager.
The Get Add-ons page features a search box, a browse all add-ons link that
takes you to Mozilla Add-ons, and a list of recommended extensions and themes by default.
Enter a search term, press the search
button and a list of matching themes and extensions compatible with your Firefox version is returned with the add-on name, its icon, a brief
description and current rating. Click on an add-on for a more detailed description, a thumbnail, and a button to install the add-on without leaving
Firefox.
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30.01.2008Mozilla Asks Add-On Developers to Prepare For Firefox 3.1
Mozilla has cultivated one of the most interesting and healthiest
ecosystems for extension developers around its popular Firefox browser. The problems with this, of course, is
that whenever Mozilla releases a new version of Firefox, developers have to make sure that their software is compatible. For the next release of its
browser, Mozilla aims to make sure that 90% of those add-ons that make up the top 95% of add-on usage will be compatible with the latest version of
Firefox. The release of Firefox 3.1 is still a while off, but currently only 28% of the top extensions are ready for the transition...
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14.11.2008600 million Mozilla add-ons downloaded
Mozilla
Blog of Metrics announced some
interesting numbers about Firefox add-ons server by
Mozilla Add-ons:
- 4000 extensions available.
- Between 800,000 and 1 million downloads per day.
- About 4.5 million page views per day.
- About 100 million checks for updates occur every day, which represents the minimum number of add-ons currently in use. 96% of these come
from Firefox installations.
- More than 600 million add-ons (themes + extensions) have been downloaded (obviously not counting
updates).
Based on update ping logs, about 96% of Firefox users are on the 2.0 branch, 2% on 1.x and 1% have already made the jump to
the latest and greatest and for-testers-only-yet 3.0 branch.
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31.01.2008Popular add-ons to Firefox are the latest criminal attack vector
Mozilla enjoys a large
development community to build
add-ons for its Firefox
browser. Now it seems all that
development might not be a
good thing. A security
researcher in Indiana has
found that the process used to
update some of these add-ons
automatically appears to be
flawed, allowing criminal
hackers to intercept the
browser's call to the
developer to see if there's a
new version available. Worse,
the most vulnerable add-ons
aren't from vendors you've
never heard of; they include
Google, Yahoo, Facebook,
LinkedIn, and other big names.
Extensions for
Firefox contain hard coded
Internet addresses for
updates. Mozilla provides free
hosting for update at
addons.mozilla.org, however,
many developers choose for
various reasons to serve the
updates themselves from
servers under their control.
The servers at
Mozilla all use the secure
https:// protocol, but since
encryption requires more
resources, many developers opt
to use the less secure, less
resource intensive http://
instead. That's where the
problem lies. ..
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31.05.2007Fashion Your Firefox: Add-Ons Made Simple
The concept of Firefox add-ons, however this may sound silly to the experienced user, is still (and probably always will be) blurry to the majority of
users. Simply put, mostly people install Firefox, and browse the web. Period. They don’t want to meddle with the settings, plugins, add-ons and
whatnot.
Understanding this, Mozilla launched a new initiative - they call it “application,” but there’s no
real application to speak of here - called
Fashion Your
Firefox. It’s a simple directory that organizes some of the best add-ons for Firefox in several easily understandable categories. This is
how Mozilla defines them...
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18.11.2008The latest Mozilla Labs add-on ties presence to location
Mozilla on Tuesday launched another new experimental Firefox plug-in that adheres to the nascent W3C specification for geolocation APIs, and that's
built to understand and manage users' location information...
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08.10.2008Mozilla Labs rolls out usability 'Test Pilot' add-on
Mozilla has launched a usability test plug-in for its open-source
Firefox
browser, in a bid to make testing and user feedback easier and more attractive.
Test Pilot, an add-on for Firefox 3.5, was rolled
out on Wednesday. "We are looking for Firefox users of all levels of skill and all levels of technical knowledge to help improve Firefox and Labs
experiments," Mozilla Labs employee
Jinghua Zhang wrote in a blog post.
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15.08.2009Firefox 3.1 targeted for years end
Mike Shroepfer, Mozilla VP of Technology
announced
today a draft plan for Firefox and the Mozilla platform beyond the upcoming Firefox 3 (and attached Mozilla platform 1.9) release next June.
Most notable is Firefox 3.1, the next update to the Firefox 3 branch. It would add a few features that were not ready to ship in
Firefox 3 development time frame. Among the most relevant...
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20.05.2008Mozilla Crowns Best Firefox 3 Extensions
Mozilla Labs
announces the winners of their official
Extend Firefox 3 Contest, and they're an impressive crop of new and updated
extensions for your favorite browser. I was honored to serve on the judging panel for this year's contest (alongside
some huge names in the browser biz), and we rated the entries based on how
easy they were to use, and how well they took advantage of new features in Firefox 3. Let's take a look at this year's best new and updated add-on
grand prize winners.
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22.08.2008Mozilla, eBay Team on Customized Firefox
Mozilla said Thursday that it
had teamed with eBay to offer
a version of its Firefox
browser that is optimized for
use with the auction site. In
addition, eBay has released an
add-on for those who want to
add the functionality to an
existing copy of the browser.
The browser and add-on are
available for several European
countries including the UK,
France and Germany. No US
version was available as of
press time.
Some of
the new functionality in
Firefox eBay Edition include a
sidebar that would allow users
to follow their auctions in
real time, status alerts for
various events including
outbid notices, integrated
search, and support for
eBay's Account Guard product.
Financial terms of the deal
between eBay and Mozilla were
not disclosed.
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05.07.2007What is Mozilla? Mitchell Baker at the French Senate
What is Mozilla?
Most likely you have your own definition: a software company, an open source project, the maker of Firefox, a
cool thing made by lots of volunteers, a non-profit, etc. If you have spent a while around Mozilla products and specially the Mozilla project your
understanding is more or less complete.
For Mitchell Baker, chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors, explaining
what Mozilla is and whats not to lots of influential people around the world is an important part of her job...
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22.02.2008The Future of Firefox: Interview With Mozilla's Chief Innovation Officer
Richard MacManus: In my recent visit to Silicon Valley, I got the chance to visit the
Mozilla headquarters.
Among others at the organization, I spoke to
Chris Beard - Mozilla's Chief Innovation Officer and the
person overseeing its efforts to bring new concepts to the browser, a.k.a.
Mozilla Labs. We discussed where
Firefox is heading and how it compares to Google Chrome in particular. We also talked about Mozilla's new mobile browser Fennec, the add-on platform,
and how recent innovations by Mozilla - such as Weave and Ubiquity - fit into the big picture. In this post we'll focus on the near future of
Firefox...
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25.03.2009Google extends its investment in Mozilla, restores MPL license
Mozilla has renewed its agreement with Google that was set to expire in November, extending it into 2011. The deal carries with it the reinstatement
of the Mozilla and Eclipse Public Licenses that were recently cast aside...
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29.08.2008Mozilla experiments with a universal content reader, Snowl
Mozilla has released a 0.1 version of
Snowl (
official blog
post), an experimental add-in for Firefox that reads news and nanoblog feeds. It's an attempt to marry together the incoming separate content
streams that many of us have feeding on to our desktops full time: News and blog stories via RSS, and social and personal communications from services
like
Twitter.
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07.08.2008Mozilla eyes extra beta for Firefox 3.1
Mozilla Corp. will probably add a third beta to the development schedule for Firefox 3.1 to get a better handle on remaining bugs and give several new
features, including a faster JavaScript engine and a private browsing mode, more testing time, the company's browser director said today.
Previous schedules published by Mozilla had limited Firefox 3.1 to only two betas before moving to a release candidate.
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26.11.2008Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0: New calendar, better search
A new
Mozilla Foundation effort to improve its
Thunderbird open-source e-mail software now has an official name--and its first public goals.
Thunderbird 3.0 is due to ship
by the end of the year with a more comprehensive search feature and official integration of the
Lightning calendar add-on, said David Ascher, chief executive of the newly named
Mozilla Messaging subsidiary. The first alpha release will come sooner, though, for those who want to test the software.
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19.02.2008Firefox leaks info useful to attackers
Mozilla's head of security yesterday confirmed a bug in Firefox that could be used by attackers to scout out a system prior to mounting a more
thorough assault. The flaw, said Window Snyder, Mozilla Corp.'s chief security officer, is in the browser's chrome protocol, she said in
response to reports of the vulnerability and the public posting of a proof-of-concept exploit. "Chrome" is the Firefox term for its user interface.
Access to a user's machine would be through one of many Firefox extensions packaged in a flat file structure, rather than collected into a single
Java archive, or .jar file, said Snyder. Several popular add-ons, including Download Statusbar and Greasemonkey, use a flat file structure. "Users
are only at risk if they have one of the 'flat' packaged add-ons installed," Snyder said on the Mozilla security blog.
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24.01.2008Mozilla Sunbird/Lightning 0.3
The Mozilla Calendar Project
is pleased to announce the
release of Sunbird and
Lightning 0.3. Thanks to the
hard work of our localizers,
both Sunbird and Lightning are
available immediately in 17
different locales.
You may prefer Mozilla
Sunbird if...
*
you prefer your calendar to be
separate from your email
client
* you don't
currently use Mozilla
Thunderbird for your email
* you don't like adding
add-ons (such as extensions or
themes) to your
applications
You
may prefer Lightning if...
* you send or
receive meeting invitations
via email
* you
already use Mozilla
Thunderbird for email
* you customize your
applications with add-ons
(such as extensions or
themes)
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11.10.2006Year in Review: Google Sets
the Pace
For the folks at Google, 2005
will be remembered as the year
which it transformed itself
from a tech darling into an
Internet powerhouse. Its moves
were watched closely by the
media and customers began to
develop distrust in the search
company. But will Google
become the next Microsoft?..
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