Vimeo and YouTube seem to believe that reliance on proprietary plugins for video is a problem on the web. Mozilla believes that reliance on patent-encumbered formats is a problem on the web. Who’s right?
Read more »Firefox 3.6 Boosts Speed, Tabs, HTML 5 and CSS
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Six months after the last big Firefox release, Mozilla today is rolling out Firefox 3.6. The new browser, which began its life under the codename Namaroka", includes numerous enhancement over its predecessor, Firefox 3.5.
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Video, Freedom And Mozilla
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"My LCA talk on Friday was about why open video is critically important to free software, and what Mozilla is doing about [...] So why doesn't Mozilla just license H.264 (like everybody else)? One big reason is that that would violate principles of free software that we strongly believe in.
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Firefox 3.6 released!
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Firefox 3.6 is built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development since early 2009 and contains many improvements for web developers, add-on developers, and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Maemo.
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Bespin, Mozilla's editor for the cloud, gets a reboot
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Mozilla Labs has rolled out a major update to Bespin, an open source text editing engine that is built with standards-based Web technologies. The project has undergone a "reboot" with the aim of improving the ease with which it can be used and enhanced. Bespin 0.6, codenamed Ash, reflects the significant effort that went into the architectural overhaul.
Read more »Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and Its Multiple Personas
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Why one add-on will become part of the next Firefox release, while others sit on the sidelines
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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 released
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Mozilla, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Web, today released Firefox® 3.6, an update to its popular, free and open source Web browser. The latest version of Firefox introduces cutting-edge features, support for a wide variety of Web standards, and access to more than 6,000 free add-ons that allow users to customize their browser to their liking.
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A free software conference or an open source conference?
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"...The free software movement is primarily concerned with building and defending software freedom—the freedom to run, share, and modify published computer software. This is an ethical consideration borne out of considering how we ought to treat one another using computers and software [...] Calling attention to the name "GNU" helps draw attention to the cause of freedom and cooperation..."
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Firefox 3.7 dropped from Schedule
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If you’ve been following the development of Firefox, you know that Mozilla separates security updates, which usually happen every couple of weeks, from feature updates, which are usually separated by months.
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Near-final Firefox 3.6 out for testing
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The new version includes Personas, which lets people customize the browser's appearance; blocks third-party software from encroaching on its file system turf to increase stability; and perhaps most significantly given the competitive threat from Google Chrome, shortens start-up time and improves responsiveness and JavaScript performance.
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Mozilla Drumbeat Aims to Expand Web Participation
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The goal of the new Mozilla Drumbeat effort is to go beyond open source code to encourage and nurture projects that help to expand understanding and participation in the open Web. While Drumbeat is today only in its early stages of development, Mozilla is budgeting more than $1 million in funding for the effort -- a project that it thinks could help to direct the very future of the Internet.
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Firefox 3.5.7 and 3.0.17 updates now available for download
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As part of Mozilla’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 3.5.7 and Firefox 3.0.17 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as free downloads:
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How to install Thunderbird 3 in Ubuntu 9.10/9.04/8.10/8.04
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Mozilla Thunderbird is a total redesign of the Mozilla mail component to produce a cross-platform, stand-alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. It has many new features, among them the ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them.
Read more »Getting Mozilla's Lightning/Iceowl to work in Thunderbird/Icedove
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When trying to add the iceowl-extension package — Debian's renamed version of Mozilla's Lightning/Sunbird calendar app — to an existing Icedove installation in Lenny, I quickly learned from Mozilla's Calendar Weblog that a certain library package must be installed before you install Lightning/Iceowl.
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Ubuntu and Mozilla: The inevitable alliance.
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Speculation is a part of technical news as prophecy is to religion. Its only important, valid or genius if it turns out to be true. However, we dare not have technical news without any speculation at all since this will surely hinder the creativeness of individuals and corporations to explore avenues influenced by ideas expressed in speculation. If any of that made sense to you, good.
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