Mozilla’s Firefox For Mobile: Fennec a miniature version

Great news for all you cell phone users, the Fennec mobile browser is now available. This is Mozilla’s Firefox for mobile, which is just a miniature version of the web browser. Fennec is only available for download to developers and testers at this moment, but it is getting closer to a consumer launch. Read more

Firefox 3.0.9 download fixes 12 security vulnerabilities

When it comes to security, Mozilla is on top of its game, Firefox 3.0.9 download now fixes 12 security vulnerabilities, and four of these are considered critical. Firefox 3.0.9 is the third update from the web browser this year. Read more

Firefox 3.6 (aka Namoroka): release date news and roadmap

Although it seems a little premature talking about Firefox 3.6 even before 3.5 has been released, we just thought you should know that Mozilla are already working on version 3.6 which they have codenamed Namoroka, and should be ready some time in 2010. Read more

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Alpha and Firefox: First Impressions

This last week saw the launch of Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha, and this update has some major improvements to the open source e-mail client (prerelease codenamed Shredder).

The third Alpha release of Mozilla Thunderbird includes some significant new features thanks to the fast development of Shredder. There have been over 280 fixes and improvements to Thunderbird alpha 3 Read more

Public download Mozilla Fennec mobile browser alpha

Mozilla have now made Fennec, their new mobile browser available as a public download. Mozilla have taken a strange decision to release the mobile browser two versions, one for PC and the other for Macs. Read more

Video explaining Mozilla Labs Aurora browser concept

Mozilla Labs has released a video which explains all you need to know about their Aurora browser concept. Mozilla hope that by launching this video, it will help to inspire people to take an active part in what is being described as the future of the web.

Mozilla Labs hope that they are able to provoke the thought of this new browser concept; they would like to facilitate discussion in designing the new direction of Firefox as well as other Mozilla projects.

The video has been created by Adaptive Path and Mozilla Labs. When watching the video, you will get to see how the Aurora browser looks and works. The concept browser uses OS X, this uses a dock-like and drag and droppable interface.

We could be watching the future of Firefox; so far I like what I have seen. The look is futuristic with objects fading away which lay further back in the past. I do worry when a concept looks this good, it will just be one of those things that we never end up seeing.

Check out the Mozilla Labs Aurora browser concept video below.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 enters Guinness World of Records

A few weeks back we were all rushing to our computers to download Firefox 3.0 from Mozilla, and none of us could have imagined how popular the new Web Browser was going to be.

Well Mozilla must have known something, as they had asked there users to try and make them hold the record for the most software downloads in 24 hours.

The thing was at the time the Guinness World Records had no such record, but Mozilla had campaigned to allow this new record.

Well it now seems that Guinness officials have decided to accept Mozilla’s final count of 8,002,530 downloads for Firefox 3.0 in 24 hours. We can now say that Firefox 3.0 is a record holder.

When Mozilla launched their latest Web Browser last month, at their busiest time their servers had to handle at least 9,000 downloads per minute.

The previous version of Firefox had 1.6 million downloads in 24 hours; version 3.00 beat that in just 5 hours.

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Mozila Firefox logo in space near the edge of the Milky Way

It seems that the Hubble Space Telescope has seen the Mozila Firefox logo in space, ok maybe it’s just me seeing things then. This is the V838 Monocerotis which is a variable star and lies right near the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Come on you have to admit, it does look like the Mozila Firefox logo, either that or you are blind. Hold on is it me or does that red light also look like HAL 9000 from the superb movie 2001: A Space Odyssesy.

Source - Slippery Brick

Mozilla say no to Firefox on Apple iPhone: Have they made a mistake?

We know the Apple iPhone is the biggest product out on the market and I do personally have the iPhone and this is why this latest news is a bit of a kick in the teeth.

I work all day on my computer and indeed use Mozilla Firefox and must say am pretty disappointed that Mozilla have said no to Firefox going on the Apple iPhone.

Mozilla invited a few technology writers to their office on Wednesday for a roundtable discussion and one of the discussions was about the Apple iPhone, John Lilly Mozilla’s CEO and VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer has said that Apple’s software requirements for the handset are too restrictive, this is when they said they will not be making Firefox for the iPhone.

Lilly said, “Apple has not written a license which allows Firefox to run on the iPhone.” Instead, they will pursue more open platforms like Android.
Do you think they have made a mistake and should have Firefox for Apple iPhone?

Source – Phones Review

Mozilla: Firefox 3 final release in June: is it worth the wait?

Well for you Firefox fans, it sounds as if Mozilla is almost ready with their new addition to their web browser. We know that Firefox 3 Beta has been around for weeks now; however we have been advised not to install it. Well you do not have to wait long for the final release as the web browser will be ready in June.

Firefox 2 is getting on a bit now, as it was released way back in October 2006, so the third version is much welcomed. Firefox 3 is said to be more stable than its predecessor, and the best thing about the software is it will use less memory.

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Is it worth the wait?

Firefox 3 Beta 4 now available: has Mozilla done a good job

Mozilla have now launched their Firefox 3 Beta 4 OS, this updated version is now available for download. Mozilla claim that there are over 900 enhancements for this updated operating system. A couple of the main enhancements are from the overall performance and from the memory usage.

The download manager has been improved; there is also a full-page zoom great if you come to a site with smaller text.

Source - Web User

So with over 900 enhancements it looks as if Mozilla has done a good job, if you have downloaded Firefox 3 Beta 4 please let us know what you think.