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Where in the world do you use Firefox?
24 February 2008When talking about Mozilla usage worldwide we have often talked about which locale of the browser people are using. We are quite proud of the fact that Firefox is available in 50 languages and the fact that the growth of other locales is outpacing en-US. The dedication of Mozilla localization communities worldwide are [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 3
12 February 2008Firefox 3 Beta 3 went live this evening including over 1350 fixes such as 92 performance fixes, 90 memory improvements, and a few new twists like the integrated add-on search directly from the browser:
During the last week of January Mozilla developers from Japan, China, Israel, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, England, Ireland, Canada, Italy, [...]
Congrats to John!
8 January 2008You’ve certainly already read elsewhere that John Lilly is taking over as CEO for MoCo and Mitchell’s continuing her amazing commitment of time, energy, and leadership to Mozilla.
Since others have covered it well I just wanted to add a personal note. I’ve had the great fortune of knowing John for well over [...]
Firefox 3 Beta 2
17 December 2007If all goes well we will release Firefox 3 Beta 2 this week, just a month after Beta 1. Beta 2 includes about 900 bug fixes. The fixes include 34 performance improvements, 32 memory leak fixes, 11 improvements to memory footprint, 51 crash fixes, 59 improvements to places, 48 improvements to the javascript engine, [...]
Apples, Oranges, and the truth
30 November 2007The IE Blog today linked to a report that “showed that IE7 had both fewer fixed and unfixed vulnerabilities in the first year than the other browsers we compared.” Paul has already pointed out that this report was generated by a Microsoft employee, but not explicitly disclosed as such.
Wanting to verify the [...]
Mozilla Mobile
2 November 2007There have been a couple of recent reviews of the Mozilla based browser for the Nokia N800 tablet and a review of the upcoming Nokia N810 tablet. Some highlights:
“The web browser in the Nokia N810 is incredibly fast, loading complete web pages in seconds.”
“With the new Mozilla based browser, dubbed “MicroB” and which you [...]
The story behind Firefox 3: Places
1 November 2007This is the first in what will hopefully be many posts talking about what we are up to in Firefox 3 and why we are doing what we are doing.
Why Places?
The drive behind places came from a number of different directions at once:
People losing their kmarks has been one of the top support issues [...]
Light at the end of the tunnel
30 October 2007A few weeks ago in a gecko meeting I mentioned that I felt like we were in the “trough of despair”. That’s the part of every software project where you’ve had to scale back your open-ended dreams to match the reality of shipping in your lifetime - but the bug list looks so long [...]
N810 with Mozilla-based browser
26 October 2007Congrats to Nokia for winning LAPTOP’s Best of CTIA Award for the N810 internet tablet. This is the first of many great devices we’ll see with Mozilla/Firefox based browsers…
Mozilla and Mobile
9 October 2007People ask us all the time about what Mozilla’s going to do about the mobile web, and I’m very excited to announce that we plan to rock it. Here’s some information about what we’re planning to do with hiring, technology, partnerships, and products, and how you can get involved. Short summary: we are [...]