Archives for Category "Mozilla: Browser of the Gods"

Everything Old is New Again (Wednesday, April 2, 2008)
jwz resurrects the original Netscape site

New Releases: Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and Thunderbird 2.0 (Thursday, April 19, 2007)
Start your downloaders!

Just a Thought: Community Dictionary for Firefox Spell-Checker (Monday, March 19, 2007)
An idea for improving Firefox spell-check

HOWTO: Pretty Up Firefox/Thunderbird UI Fonts (Monday, February 12, 2007)
Use your CSS skillz to customize your browser

Firefox 2 (Wednesday, October 25, 2006)
Get to downloading

XULRunner 1.8.0.1 Developer Preview (Monday, February 20, 2006)
Build your own Moz-based apps

IE7 Beta Available (Tuesday, January 31, 2006)
A new version of IE! It's like 1998 all over again

Thunderbird 1.5 (Thursday, January 12, 2006)
Another step forward for Mozilla's great free e-mail program

Firefox 1.5 Is Here (Tuesday, November 29, 2005)
New and improved Firefox now available

Firefox 1.5 RC1 (Tuesday, November 1, 2005)
It's here

Firefox 1.0.7 (Friday, September 23, 2005)
Use Firefox? You need this update

Veeeery Interesting (Tuesday, August 16, 2005)
What's brewing in the kitchen at Yahoo?

Thanks, Apple! (Tuesday, July 5, 2005)
Apple helps Mozilla make the jump from PPC to Mactel

Firefox 1.0.4 Available, Fixes Security Hole (Thursday, May 12, 2005)
From major security problem to "problem solved": 6 days

Tweaking Firefox With about:config (Friday, May 6, 2005)
How to set Firefox's hidden preferences

Apple Takes a Page From Microsoft (Wednesday, May 4, 2005)
You don't really know what browser you want to use. Let us tell you

Safari First Past the Post on Acid2 (Thursday, April 28, 2005)
Hyatt wins the race to compliance

Firefox: Extension Manager Improvements (Wednesday, March 23, 2005)
Another step forward for the best browser

Firefox 1.0.1 (Thursday, February 24, 2005)
Latest and greatest

HOWTO: Add Live Bookmarks Support to Your Site (Monday, February 7, 2005)
It's easier than you probably think

Holy Crap (Monday, January 24, 2005)
Big news from a key Firefox person

Mozilla's &SHYness Problem (Tuesday, January 18, 2005)
Mozilla: less standards-compliant than IE (in this case, anyway)

Thunderbird 1.0 (Sunday, December 19, 2004)
Mozilla's e-mail program hits the big one-oh

Netscape: It's Baaaack! Kind Of (Tuesday, November 30, 2004)
Somebody put a silver bullet in it already

Get the Most Out of Firefox: Cut Through Pages With Find As You Type (Sunday, November 21, 2004)
Learn how Firefox can help you search WITHIN a page

Get the Most Out of Firefox: Adding New Search Engines to the Search Bar (Sunday, November 14, 2004)
Learn how to turn Firefox into a searching machine!

Firefox 1.0 (Tuesday, November 9, 2004)
It's here!

Thunderbird 0.9 (Thursday, November 4, 2004)
Best IMAP client gets better

Subscribe to Just Well Mixed via Live Bookmarks (Thursday, September 16, 2004)
Only took me a second, so why not

Firefox Tips, From One Who Would Know (Wednesday, September 15, 2004)
Ben Goodger explains it all

PageRank Extension (Wednesday, August 11, 2004)
How popular's your page? Here's an easy way to see

Cool New Firefox Extension: Google Preview (Monday, July 26, 2004)
See what you're searching for

Drop A Coin In the Bucket Already! (Monday, July 12, 2004)
You'll be glad you did, come tax time

Mozilla Security Alert: Get ShellBlock (Thursday, July 8, 2004)
Within a day of an exploit's discovery -- it's plugged

Mozilla Downloads Way Up (Friday, July 2, 2004)
What's bad for IE is good for Moz

They Fix These Things So Fast I Can Barely Keep Up (Tuesday, June 29, 2004)
I get tired just watching them work

Firefox 0.9.1RC Builds Available (Monday, June 28, 2004)
Fresh off the mozilla.org griddle...

And Here Comes The New Thunderbird, Too (Wednesday, June 16, 2004)
Woo-hoo! New e-mail goodness!

... And It's Here (Tuesday, June 15, 2004)
Firefox 0.9, that is. Enjoy

An Early Tour of Firefox 0.9 (Tuesday, June 15, 2004)
Step right up and see what's new

Firefox 0.9RC Out (Wednesday, June 9, 2004)
Fresh off the FTP server

Thunderbird 0.6 Released (Monday, May 3, 2004)
It just keeps getting better

What's Coming On The Road to Firefox 1.0 (Monday, April 26, 2004)
Something REALLY cool

Thunderbird 0.6a, New Branding Released (Thursday, April 22, 2004)
Ooh, lovely

Testify! (Thursday, April 22, 2004)
Firefox/Thunderbird win another high-profile convert

It's Like You're With the Band (Thursday, April 15, 2004)
A cool offer from the Mozilla Foundation

Netscape 7: Apparently, It Was Only Pining For the Fjords (Tuesday, March 30, 2004)
The Inquirer is reporting that AOL has reversed itself and will release a new version of Netscape 7.x, based on...

Firefox: The Word Is Getting Out (Thursday, February 26, 2004)
Good news travels fast

A Thunderbird Thumbs Up From A Surprising Source (Friday, February 20, 2004)
Well, whaddaya know

Thunderbird 0.5 Is Here, Too (Monday, February 9, 2004)
A great mail reader gets even better

Firefox (nee Firebird) 0.8 Is Here! (Monday, February 9, 2004)
Firebird becomes Firefox

Mozilla 1.6 Released (Friday, January 16, 2004)
More improvements for the Mozilla Suite

Ghostzilla: The "Invisible Browser" (Tuesday, January 13, 2004)
Mozilla for the tinfoil-hat crowd

Thunderbird 0.4 Is Out (Friday, December 5, 2003)
Keeps getting better

So Why Care About Mozilla, Anyway? (Wednesday, October 15, 2003)
My challenge to you

EasyGestures Makes Browsing As Easy As Pie (Wednesday, October 15, 2003)
Yum!

Release Day Is Upon Us (Wednesday, October 15, 2003)
Moz 1.5, Firebird 0.7, Thunderbird 0.3, oh my

Minimize Thunderbird to the System Tray (Tuesday, October 7, 2003)
Finally

Make Firebird Even Faster (Monday, August 11, 2003)
Get your Firebird tweakage on

Thunderbird 0.1 Released (Monday, July 28, 2003)
Mail call

Thoughts On the Recent Unpleasantness (Thursday, July 24, 2003)
Black Tuesday at Netscape

Mozilla 1.4 Released (Monday, June 30, 2003)
Another day, another browser

Netscape 7.1 Released (Monday, June 30, 2003)
New Netscape version... for both of you who care

Browsers of the World, Unite! (Wednesday, June 25, 2003)
All hail the gecko!

Thunderbirds Are Go (Monday, June 16, 2003)
Putting a toe in the Thunderbird waters

Transparent Browser Upgrades (Monday, June 2, 2003)
My colleague Oscar Merida has some thoughts on convincing people to upgrade to Mozilla Firebird from IE: I've been installing...

Spolsky Makes the Switch (Sunday, June 1, 2003)
Well, I never thought I'd see this, that's for sure -- Joel Spolsky, head of Fog Creek Software and a...

Mozilla 1.4 RC1 Released (Friday, May 30, 2003)
Those of you who haven't made the switch to Mozilla Firebird yet should know that Mozilla Suite 1.4 Release Candidate...

Firebird Observations (Monday, May 19, 2003)
Couple of random observations following my previous post about the launch of Mozilla Firebird 0.6... First, Asa Dotzler, one of...

Mozilla Firebird 0.6 Released (Saturday, May 17, 2003)
Mozilla.org has just released the newest version of their browser-only offering, Mozilla Firebird 0.6. If you haven't tried Firebird yet...

Mozilla Extensions I Can't Live Without (Wednesday, April 9, 2003)
You owe it to yourself to check these out if you haven't already: PrefBar -- easily toggle preferences on and...

Mozilla's Hidden Preferences (Wednesday, December 11, 2002)
I've been meaning to post this one for a long time: If you use Mozilla (or a Moz-based browser like...

Mozilla 1.2.1 Out (Tuesday, December 3, 2002)
Looks like the folks at the Mozilla Project really got on the stick after the botched release of Mozilla 1.2...

Mozilla 1.2 Out (Wednesday, November 27, 2002)
Hey kids, looks like the Mozilla Project has just released the latest and greatest version of their browser, Mozilla 1.2....

XUL Help? (Monday, November 25, 2002)
If anybody out there has experience using the Mozilla front-end language, XUL, and its support for localization, I'd love to...

K-Meleon is Back (Tuesday, November 12, 2002)
This is good news -- after a long dormancy, the K-Meleon project is finally back up and running. K-Meleon takes...

Finally!!! (Thursday, October 10, 2002)
According to the latest mozilla.org status update, support for synchronizing the Mozilla address book with PalmPilots and other PalmOS devices...

Mozilla Slims Down (Tuesday, September 24, 2002)
If you're a Windows user who's been intrigued by Mozilla's power and standards-compliance, but you've been turned off by its...

Mozilla 1.1 Out (Tuesday, August 27, 2002)
The world's best browser just got better -- Mozilla 1.1 was released to the public this morning. Improvements over the...

Thumbs Up For Mozilla 1.0 (Tuesday, June 18, 2002)
So the Mozilla Organization, the open-source project launched by Netscape in 1998 when they released the source code of their...

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