Mozilla Labs’ Aza Raskin talks about the big picture for Ubiquity
Mozilla, the company behind the popular Firefox browser, just announced a very cool project that’s in the early stages of development — Ubiquity, a tool that allows users to access services like mapping, translation and search on any website. Earlier today, I had a chance… Continue Reading
Google Gears quietly launches beta test for Safari
Gears is an open source project run by Google which allows users to take online data offline via a web browser plug-in. It can, for example, allow you to read Google Reader feed items even when your computer is not connected to the Internet, and… Continue Reading
More Facebook executive musical chairs: Mozilla’s Shroepfer joins engineering; board changes happening?
Facebook has been looking for new engineering leaders for months. It just got one, in Mozilla’s Vice President of Engineering, Mike Schroepfer. His responsibilities will include “leading front-end product and platform engineering,” according to Facebook. This helps sort out some of the ongoing executive musical… Continue Reading
Pop technology: Colbert show gave Firefox 3 download rate a solid boost
Firefox 3 already broke a Guiness world record when it launched last month and was downloaded more than eight million times in the first 24 hours. Now, in a demonstration of the increasingly common intersections between web technology and pop culture, Firefox parent company Mozilla… Continue Reading
Mozilla’s Firefox 3 wins Guinness world software download record
When Mozilla launched Firefox 3, the latest version of its increasingly popular web browser, on June 17, it was aiming to set a new world record for most software downloads in 24 hours. Guinness World Records, the company that adjudicates such gee-whiz world record claims,… Continue Reading
Skyfire nabs Mike Rowehl to handle scalability
Skyfire is a hot new mobile web browser that touts itself as “The PC web. On your phone.” It also touts itself as “real fast,” something which new team addition Mike Rowehl will have a hand in maintaining as the company’s scalability architect.
We last wrote… Continue Reading
Firefox 3: Records are made to be set
Sometimes a race horse stumbles out of the gate and it wins anyway. Such is the case with Mozilla’s Firefox 3.
Mozilla put out a lofty goal of 5 million downloads for Firefox 3 on the first day. As of noon today, the number stands at… Continue Reading
Failfox 3, er…Firefox 3: The race to 5 million is on, but the race to one proves difficult
It is both annoying and laughable when a company massively hypes its own launch, only to result in broken links and 404 pages. As Stinger taught Maverick in Top Gun, you shouldn’t let your ego write checks that your body can’t cash. Mozilla apparently never… Continue Reading
Today is Firefox download day. Will it hit 5 million?
Hey kids, it’s past midnight on June 17th and you know what that means: It’s Firefox Download Day! In a few hours, the latest iteration of the insurgent web browser, Firefox 3, will be unleashed upon the world.
If you live on the west coast, the… Continue Reading
Insurgent web browser Firefox 3 launches in six days
The first release candidate of Mozilla’s Firefox 3 web browser has been out for almost a month but the company had been quiet about when the final version would be released. Instead, all we got was that it would ship “when it’s ready.” Well now… Continue Reading
Roundup: Dell pushes for green PCs, Atari releases exercise system and more
Here’s the latest action:
Dell wants greener PCs (now if only their customers did too) — The computer maker says its laptops and desktops should consume 25 percent less energy by 2010. But the Wall Street Journal notes that Dell has an uphill battle in its effort… Continue Reading
LiMo gets new partners including Verizon — an open rival to Google’s Android?
The Linux Mobile Foundation, or LiMo, has been trying to create an open-source platform for device manufacturers, carriers, third-party application developers and others in the mobile industry since last year. By using the open source Linux operating system, companies across segments of the mobile industry… Continue Reading
Live blogging: Mozilla Chairman Mitchell Baker on opening the mobile web
To unleash the wild creativity of the Internet on mobile phones, we have to open them up to the real Internet, says Mitchell Baker, the second speaker of the morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
The chairman (er, chairwoman) of Mozilla says it… Continue Reading
Updated: Q&A with Mozilla’s John Lilly on 10 years of Mozilla and the future of browsers
Mozilla, the maker of the free open source Firefox browser, is turning 10 years old on Monday.
More than 160 million users use Firefox, which competes with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Apple’s Safari. The nonprofit Mozilla, based in Mountain View, Calif., also publishes the open… Continue Reading
Opera and Safari beat IE and Firefox to Acid3 milestone
The latest versions of the web browsers Opera and Safari are claiming to have reached the big 100/100 score milestone in the Acid3 web standards compatibility test, making them the first browsers to do so. The two sides are thought to have completed the task… Continue Reading
Roundup: Farber takes over at CNET, Mozilla’s new email subsidiary, Scribd iPaper, and more
Here’s the latest action:
1) Dan Farber takes the helm at CNET
2) Mozilla launches email-focused subsidiary
3) Scribd creates iPaper, an Acrobat competitor
4) Hewlett-Packard has great first quarter
5) Tesla Motors pulls in another $40M
6) Verizon, AT&T unveil new unlimited wireless plans
7) Oligarchs, proletariat run amok in Silicon… Continue Reading
Mozilla, parent of Firefox, sees leadership change
Mozilla, the Silicon Valley company that runs the popular browser Firefox, said John Lilly (pictured below), its chief operating officer, has become chief executive.
The move comes after steady growth of market share by Firefox, which now has about 17 percent, compared to Microsoft Internet Explorer’s… Continue Reading
Mozilla’s Weave, lets you save bookmarks, passwords across Web
Mozilla recently launched a new online service called Weave. Weave allows you to store settings and other data so that it can be used across multiple devices. For example, you can save your personal bookmarks in Weave (it is saved on a Mozilla server), and… Continue Reading
Roundup: Yahoo’s internet cafes, Smartshopper’s backflip, and more
1) Yahoo launches brick-and-mortar internet cafes in Vietnam
2) Mozilla Corp., maker of the popular Firefox web browser, made $66 million in revenue in 2006
3) The internet still probably won’t be taxed in the US, through 2014
4) Adware company Zango buys comparison shopping service Smartshopper, a… Continue Reading
Mozilla releases The Coop — social networking in your browser
The Coop is a new social networking feature by Mozilla, which will let users of its Firefox browser keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share content with them.
It will integrate with web services, using data feeds so that you can… Continue Reading