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Mozilla Add-ons Site Redesigned, Available Now

Paul Kim — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:58:31 +0000

Great news from Basil Hashem, Mike Morgan and Madhava Enros: the refreshed, redesigned and ready for interaction Mozilla Add-ons web site is now live!

Here’s what Basil had to say:

The AMO team has been hard at work for the last many months on a major site redesign and is pleased to announce the availability of the new AMO site. This is a significant release and chock-full of goodies for end users and add-on authors alike. The focus has been predominantly to provide a visual refresh, simplify navigation and rework the add-on developer tools area. But that doesn’t quite capture just how much effort has gone into this release. So, here is a full rundown of all the changes.

And some praise for our editors and localizers from Mike Morgan:

Our editors have worked hard to review new and updated add-ons as we move towards Firefox 3 this year and our localizers translated roughly 200 new strings in AMO templates in a little over three weeks for 24 locales (wow).

Lastly, some user experience notes from Madhava Enros:

This release is particularly exciting for me, partly because the wireframes and interaction-model for the site were the first things I worked on when I arrived at Mozilla. Also, though, because alongside the re-skinning and reorganization of the site, I think we’ve managed to improve the user-experience of finding and installing add-ons in a number of interesting ways.

Add it all up and the site that’s served over 600 million add-on downloads is now even more useful for more people than ever before. Check out the updated Mozilla Add-ons site here: http://addons.mozilla.org

Bay Area Techies: Help Schools with Your Old Hardware and Free Software

mshapiro — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:21:24 +0000

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 with a local office or a local user group (are you listening Linux, MySQL, Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, Python, Ruby, etc. user groups), try to round up your geeky crew to get them down to the event.

For more information, visit http://www.untangle.com/installfest

Introducing the best thing to hit campus since ramen noodles

sarora — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:58:43 +0000

Hey everyone,

My name is Sarah, and I am a marketing intern at Mozilla and also a returning senior at Stanford University. One of the projects I worked on at Mozilla this summer was the Firefox Campus Edition, which is a special edition of Firefox designed specifically for students like me. The Campus Edition bundles the latest version of Firefox with three great add-ons: FoxyTunes, Zotero, and StumbleUpon. What student has time to look through all the awesome add-ons that Firefox offers? No worries; Mozilla has made it easy for us. Here’s a little bit of info about each add-on:

FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more right from your favorite browser.

StumbleUpon lets you channel surf the Internet to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests.

Zotero helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work – in Firefox itself.

These tools will allow you to maximize your time doing research and have fun while surfing the Web. Just download and enjoy: http://www.firefox.com/backtoschool.