Firefox just reached  500,000,000 downloads. This is an absolutely phenomenal milestone for Firefox. It is sort of hard to imagine what that number means. For some perspective, that’s roughly the audience size of 10,000 Rome Colosseums combined. It would be the weight, in kilograms, of 8,500 Boeing 747 airplanes. In dollars, for $500 million you [...]

On Saturday March 1, the Alameda County Computer Resource Center and Untangle are pairing up to run a massive installfest, pairing donated computer hardware with Ubuntu GNU/Linux.
If you live in (or are visiting) the Bay Area, you can help by donating old hardware and by helping install Ubuntu.
If you are part of a company [...]

Hi everyone,
I recently joined the Mozilla team as a marketing coordinator, and I’m excited to announce our T-Shirt Design Contest to help promote the launch of Firefox 3! The winning design will have worldwide exposure as the official Firefox 3 T-Shirt, and be featured as an exclusive item in the Mozilla Store. This [...]

Please join us for another exciting episode of Air Mozilla Live!
This week’s Air Mozilla Live broadcast will feature a discussion with David Ascher, CEO of Mozilla’s new Mozilla Messaging organization. David will be talking about the launch of this new Mozilla Foundation subsidiary, upcoming Thunderbird releases, and the future of internet messaging. The program will [...]

Today, Mozilla Messaging, the new mail focused subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, announced that it has begun operations.  For more details, view the press release, FAQ and David Ascher’s blog post.

[Mozilla announced Firefox 3 Beta 3 today, Feb 12 at approximately 5:45pm PT. See Mike Beltzner’s comprehensive post from DevNews, crossposted below. Reminder that the Firefox 3 Beta 3 milestone release is intended for testing purposes only and is not for casual users.]
Firefox 3 beta 3 now available for download
Please note: We do not recommend [...]

Extend Firefox 2 has wrapped up and we’re super excited to announce the winners! We received well over 100 entries, representing hundreds of hours of hard work from people around the world.
A big thanks to all who participated! And special thanks to our panel of judges, including Garrett Camp (StumbleUpon), Brendan Eich (Mozilla), Jesse James [...]