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5 reasons not to trust Microsoft near Firefox

Microsoft has never made much secret of the fact that keeping rival browsers down is a key part of its business plan.

Way back in 1996, Steve Ballmer (then still only the deputy CEO) cheerfully proclaimed: “Every minute of every day, we’ll ask every Microsoft employee to ask themselves, ‘Have I done anything to increase our share of the Internet browser market?’ That’s the business we’re in; driving up our share is incredibly, incredibly important to us.”

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Mozilla releases Thunderbird 2

A new find-as-you-type feature in the free e-mail client winnows displayed messages on the fly, making searches faster.

Mozilla released Thunderbird 2, its free, open source e-mail client for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems in 30 languages.

The new release boasts improved security and a variety of new features. Chief among them is message tagging, the ability to label and categorise e-mail for easier searching and organisation. In addition to default tags, users can create their own.Thunderbird 2 also features message history navigation, similar in concept to the browser history feature in Firefox.

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The Coop - social networking for Firefox

Mozilla Labs has started a project to add social-networking features to the Firefox browser called The Coop. the project aims to build a browser add-on that will let people share and receive links or other Web-delivered content,
such as photos.


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New Mozilla Mobile Browser Out

The newest version of Minimo, the Mozilla mobile browser, became available this week in the midst of changes within the Minimo project that make its future uncertain.Minimo 0.2, available for free download, is compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0 and is smaller and faster than previous versions, according to early users who posted comments to the blog about the browser. Minimo is designed to be an alternative to the browser that comes with Windows Mobile and its creators promote its speed in accessing sites and other features such as tabs, better security and support for widgets.

The Minimo project, which isn’t a Mozilla Corp. endeavor but is hosted by Mozilla.org, was one of the earliest third-party mobile browser initiatives but seems to have been eclipsed by other developers, including Opera Software ASA.
But while Minimo struggles, Opera, which also offers a free browser for phones including those running the newest OS from Microsoft, Windows Mobile 6.0, has been attracting more and more users. In February, there were 216,283 downloads of Opera’s browser for Windows Mobile Smartphone and Pocket PC editions.

Download : Minimo | Opera | Recommended : Get Firefox with Google Toolbar for better browsing

Flock - The social web browser

Flock is an amazing web browser built on fast and secure Mozilla technologies. View and share photos with an innovative new photo bar in the browser. Subscribe to your favorite websites to get the freshest content automatically, in summaries that are easy to save and blog. Search more quickly, more effectively, and more richly with the innovative Flock Search Toolbar.

The 0.7.11 Flock Maintenance Patch has several enhancements and bug fixes including: 

* Incorporated Mozilla’s 1.5.0.10 patch for Firefox.
* Fixed a timing issue in the photo uploader when creating and uploading to sub albums.
 

* Incorporated Mozilla’s 1.5.0.10 patch for Firefox.* Fixed a timing issue in the photo uploader when creating and uploading to sub albums.Download: Flock 0.7.11 | Link: Flock Home Page

Portable Firefox 2.0.0.1

Portable Firefox is a fully functional solution of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers. It will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more.

Download: Portable Firefox 2.0.0.1 | 5.7MB (Freeware) |Screenshot: Click here | Product Website

Mozilla updates Firefox 3.0 preview

Mozilla Corp. yesterday released the second alpha version of what will become its Firefox 3.0 Web browser. The release is the latest milestone in a plan to put the open-source browser in users’ hands during the second half of the year.Dubbed “Gran Paradiso,” the preview is still geared toward “Web application developers and our testing community,” according to release notes on the Mozilla site. The company warned general users to steer clear and stick with the 2.0.x and 1.5.x production versions.

Among the changes to the second alpha are enhancements in the way Web pages render incrementally — while images load or dynamic changes are made to a page, for example. Other changes include improvements in the browser’s interaction with Mac OS X widgets and the addition of full support for ACID2 test compliance.

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7 hidden pages within your Firefox browser

about:
A simple prompt without any parameter will display the Mozilla “about” information. Since it’s accessible from the top menus as well, it’s not quite a hidden feature.

about:buildconfig
Obviously, it will show the build platform configuration and parameters

about:cache
Will display info and statistics regarding your disk’s cache, including the name of your cache’s directory and a list of the entries you can find there. By default, Firefox doesn’t allow you to view the cached webpages, so this can be an useful option.

about:config
Oh look, many many info. Indeed, it’s the most complex and meaningful of them all. Careful on what you plan to change here, your browser won’t run properly after if you play with the wrong things.

about:plugins
Of course, what is Firefox without it’s powerful extensions? This option will display detailed information about all the plugins installed for Mozilla Firefox.

about:credits
It’s time to give the credit to whoever deserves it. There’s an alphabetically sorted list of all the people that gave their contribution to the development of Firefox.

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