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Mozilla Labs is debuting Firefox Share Alpha, a new Firefox add-on designed to make it easy to share to any of your favorite sites from the browser, no buttons needed and with just a couple of clicks. For now, the add-on supports Twitter, Facebook and Gmail, but as the name clearly suggests, this is just the initial... |
29 October 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced that it's shutting down Lab Kit, a Firefox extension bundle Mozilla Labs used to test several experimental add-ons at a time without having users constantly check for updates or managing several add-ons that may or not may get updates in the future.It unveiled it about a year ago, but Mozil... |
8 October 2011
09:11 GMT |
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A team at Mozilla Labs has been working on adding advanced audio and video capabilities to the browser, Firefox in this case, under the Rainbow project.
Recently, Google announced the open source WebRTC project, which it aims to standardize. WebRTC already does many of the things the Rainbow team set out to do.
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5 August 2011
09:50 GMT |
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Tab management, as browsers get faster and the web gets, well, bigger, is an ever increasing problem. Despite people having tens of tabs open at a time, splitting them to several windows and so on, no browser has really solved the problem.
In fact, it's just Firefox that's trying with Panorama. But even... |
15 July 2011
10:51 GMT |
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The Mozilla Labs Prospector project centers around search, though some experiments under the Prospector umbrella have went way beyond that and came up with radically new user interfaces. The latest goes back to the roots though, it's a new history search tool dubbed RecallMonkey which enables users to find sites... |
21 June 2011
10:18 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs' Prospector project has been churning out great little experiments since it first launched. Now it's coming back with a new one, Predictive Newtab, a fresh take on the new tab page which features links to pages and websites based on what you're currently browsing and the page you're c... |
17 June 2011
12:21 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs' Prospector project, aka Mozilla developer Edward Lee, has been churning out experimental features and additions for quite some time now, challenging the way a browser should look and feel like. The latest experiment is a deceptively simple one, but one that's implemented in a very good way.Dub... |
21 May 2011
07:41 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs warned that it would start releasing updates to its Chromeless project more often and it's keeping its word. Just a couple of weeks after Chromeless 0.2 hit, Chromeless 0.3 is here with quite a few new features, considering the short period since the last release.Mozilla Labs' Chromeless projec... |
13 May 2011
09:50 GMT |
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The Mozilla Labs team has released the second ever update to a relatively new project - Chromeless. While it's been a few months since we first heard about the ambitious new project, the team has been working on making some big changes after the first release and they've culminated with the release of Chrom... |
30 April 2011
06:05 GMT |
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The Prospector Project is home to some interesting experiments with the Firefox UI and search options. The latest is an Awesomebar revamp which integrates the search box with the regular address bar. Dubbed the Awesomebar HD, it works similarly to the OmniBox in Chrome or the address bar in IE9, though there are some... |
28 April 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Mozilla is pressing on with its experimental Rainbow Firefox add-on which adds the capability of recording audio and video streams straight from the browser. The idea is to bolster work on online multimedia applications if this type of functionality is built into the browser.The latest update for the add-on, Rainbow ... |
28 April 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Mozilla Messaging, the team responsible with developing applications like F1, Raindrop and mainly the Thunderbird email client, will be integrated in the Mozilla Labs project, as Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation announced the world through her blog.To be fair, the Messagin... |
5 April 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs has updated its social sharing add-on for Firefox. The latest F1 comes with a very slick new interface, better support for Twitter and Facebook, LinkedIn support and a revamped interface for Gmail. However, the new UI elements are Firefox 4 specific so F1 is dropping support for the older Firefox 3.6."We... |
18 February 2011
07:05 GMT |
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The future of the web is all about apps, the web is not about information alone anymore it's about functionality. But for this to happen, browsers need to be able to carry out increasingly sophisticated tasks. Mozilla is tacking one of the problems with Rainbow, a Firefox add-on that adds video and audio recodin... |
9 February 2011
11:20 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs has been the source of plenty of interesting experiments, many that have graduated and became part of Firefox or full-fledged projects. Home Dash is one of the most exciting yet, if only because it's such a radical new approach to a browser UI. It's also iterating at a fast pace, the latest upd... |
8 February 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Mozilla's Game On competition came to an end and it's time to meet the winners. Though there were plenty of entries, the jury ended up with several games which excelled in one particular aspect and one that was deemed best overall. They each have their strengths and weaknesses, but all have one thing in com... |
4 February 2011
09:41 GMT |
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If you thought Firefox Panorama was innovative, you haven't seen anything yet. Mozilla Labs' Home Dash completely re-invents the browser UI and introduces some very interesting concepts. Essentially, it gets rid of all the Firefox UI elements and all you're left with is the actual website. The UI that ... |
27 January 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs has launched an interesting Firefox extension that brings the concept of Google Instant, or more specifically, the new Chrome Instant, to Firefox 4. Dubbed Instant Preview, the new Labs experiment enables Firefox to load web pages as soon as you start typing, based on Awesome Bar suggestions."With Instan... |
9 December 2010
04:43 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs has announced that the Test Pilot add-on is now used by 1 million people. This surge in new users happened after it was included in Firefox 4 Beta by default, but it does show that Firefox users are eager to help out Mozilla and provide feedback."It was just four months ago when we reported that 170,000 ... |
2 December 2010
06:19 GMT |
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With Firefox 4.0 progressing, albeit slowly, towards a final release, you have to look elsewhere at Mozilla for the most exciting technologies and developments, namely at Mozilla Labs. One of the latest experiments, Rainbow, has already reached version 0.2. The new release adds some support for Windows and Linux and ... |
18 November 2010
10:33 GMT |
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Sharing is a big part of the web today and there are countless services to share fun or interesting websites with your friends and even more ways of doing so, share, tweet or like buttons, extensions and so on. But their number is actually a drawback, with so many options, both users and website owners find it hard t... |
11 November 2010
05:11 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs' latest project, Prospector, is shaping up to be the most interesting, if only because actual results have been coming since soon after it was launched. The Speak Words experiment predicts what words you wanted to type in the Awesome Bar and the latest Find Suggest shows what words on a page match t... |
6 November 2010
07:59 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs has just introduced a very interesting new extension dubbed Lab Kit. The extension is just a placeholder of sorts since it just installs, updates and removes other Mozilla Labs experiments, depending on what the team decides should go in or out. "Mozilla Labs is pleased to announce an easy way for you to... |
3 November 2010
06:42 GMT |
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Firefox 4.0 development may not be going as fast as Mozilla had hoped, not that long-time Firefox fans will be surprised, but one part of Mozilla has been on a roll lately, Mozilla Labs. The experimental arm has introduced yet another project, Rainbow, which aims to improve the recording, of audio and video, capabili... |
29 October 2010
09:26 GMT |
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Mozilla's Prospector team is wasting no time in getting to work and actually producing results, just a couple of weeks after the project was announced. The first small experiment released is a pretty handy feature, auto-completion for words typed in the Awesome Bar. "Our first experiment in the Prospector series... |
28 October 2010
09:18 GMT |
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Contacts in the Browser has just been updated. The Firefox add-on which aims to make it easier to manage contacts within the web browser just added a bunch of new features as progress is done at a fast pace. While most of Mozilla is working on bringing Firefox 4.0 by the end of this year, which seems unlikely, a hand... |
23 October 2010
07:20 GMT |
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Mozilla is trying all sorts of crazy things with its Labs teams and the latest project is no different. Chromeless is an experimental project aimed at making it easier for users and outside developers to create the browser's interface, the 'chrome,' using just standard web technologies. "The 'Chro... |
22 October 2010
14:41 GMT |
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Mozilla has released Jetpack SDK 0.9, the latest update to the alternative add-on platform for Firefox. The latest version paves the way for the first beta release of the platform and focuses on making it compatible with Electrolysis, the project which aims to add multi-process support to Firefox. "This version conti... |
22 October 2010
09:45 GMT |
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Mozilla is moving forward with its plans to create an alternative to the Chrome Web Store, the Open Web Apps ecosystem. The idea is to create a place for cross-platforms web applications which would be easy to find and acquire. "We designed and built a prototype of a system for open Web apps: Apps built using HTML/CS... |
21 October 2010
06:31 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs has announced Prospector, a new project which will focus on the search experience inside the browser. The team will run a number of experiments to test various ideas related to search, though, the details are a bit sketchy at the moment. "Prospector is a new series of experiments from Mozilla Labs focuse... |
12 October 2010
08:37 GMT |
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Mozilla has released the latest version of its new add-on/extension platform, Jetpack SDK 0.8. The extension platform for Firefox has been in the works for over a year now and is getting ready to become a full-blown project for Mozilla and eventually to be integrated into Firefox. The latest update comes with a few n... |
28 September 2010
06:28 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced a new initiative which aims to promote games on the web. The initiative is light on the practical details for now, but aims to promote the web and web technologies as a great platform for games, as opposed to apps which are becoming increasingly popular, especially on the mobile front."We are ex... |
8 September 2010
09:18 GMT |
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The Mozilla Labs team has released the latest update to the Jetpack SDK add-on platform. Jetpack SDK 0.7 brings a number of new APIs as well as bug fixes and enhancements."The release includes three new APIs: The panel API creates floating modal popups that appear on top of web content and browser chrome and persist ... |
27 August 2010
15:10 GMT |
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Mozilla is now expanding its Contacts experiment with support for Thunderbird. Contacts started life as a Mozilla Labs experiment for Firefox. The add-on pulls contacts data from various online and offline sources to create a comprehensive address book. Its usefulness for Mozilla’s email client is obvious so th... |
5 August 2010
05:44 GMT |
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Mozilla has released the monthly update to the Jetpack SDK. There aren’t that many notable changes in Jetpack SDK 0.6 as most of the planned features were not completed in time for the deadline. The biggest update is the possibility to specify a widget width and better integration with Firefox 4.“Jetpack ... |
29 July 2010
06:10 GMT |
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Firefox 4 Beta 1 is here to give us a taste of things to come. Don’t get too excited about it, it is still a very early release and the final builds are not expected for quite some time to come. But if you’re even the least bit curious about what the Mozilla team has been up to, whether you’re a reg... |
7 July 2010
04:27 GMT |
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The first beta of Firefox 4 is around the corner and Mozilla is firing on all cylinders to make sure that everything goes smoothly. The Firefox team is obviously in overdrive, but they’re not alone. Mozilla Labs is doing pretty much the same as many of the experiments that have started life in Labs will end up ... |
2 July 2010
09:30 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs has put the finishing touches on Test Pilot, a Firefox add-on designed to help Mozilla study the behavior and preferences of the browser’s users in order to improve it, and is now releasing Test Pilot 1.0. The milestone release comes after almost a year’s work and is an incremental update fro... |
1 July 2010
08:42 GMT |
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The people at Mozilla Labs move fast, it’s the nature of their work. Just one month after Firefox Sync 1.3 came out, Firefox Sync 1.4 lands with several new features and improvements. The biggest updates are to the UI which is getting a revamp in preparation of Firefox 4.0. There is also the possibility to name... |
1 July 2010
05:37 GMT |
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Mozilla has been looking beyond the traditional browser for quite a while now and its experimental arm, Mozilla Labs, has been fostering several projects having to do with the social web and the way the browser is a tool to manage your online identity. Mozilla Labs has now launched a new project, which is as far from... |
2 June 2010
11:24 GMT |
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Mozilla has released the fourth update to the recently launched Jetpack SDK. Four new high-level APIs have been introduced in Jetpack SDK 0.4 and several other bigger features. Some of the APIs and changes planned for the 0.4 release have been deferred to the upcoming Jetpack SDK 0.5, scheduled to come about a month ... |
28 May 2010
05:30 GMT |
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The web is becoming increasingly mobile and it’s not just about having a device you take with you everywhere. Oftentimes, we use several devices and several computers, so it becomes useful to us to be able to take our browser bookmarks, preferences and so on, with us. This is where sync features come in handy a... |
21 May 2010
08:16 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced the release of the third iteration of its nascent Jetpack Software Development Kit. With Jetpack SDK 0.3, the project gets a couple of new APIs that should prove pretty important if not crucial for add-on developers, the “context menu” and the “self” APIs. The platform is... |
30 April 2010
06:32 GMT |
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Facebook is making a play for becoming the single handler of your online identity. With the new features and API tools it unveiled last week, the social network could potentially ‘infiltrate’ any website in the world, effectively taking over the web in a sense. And Mozilla has a very similar idea. It too ... |
28 April 2010
06:32 GMT |
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Mozilla is working on integrating features that would normally be part of a web service directly into the browser. One example of this is the Firefox Contacts add-on, which creates a sort of local and integrated address book by pulling contact data from various sources either online or from local address books. The p... |
23 April 2010
09:06 GMT |
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With Google Chrome recently introducing a revamped sync feature which now makes it easy for users to share settings and even themes between different Chrome installs, Mozilla Weave for Firefox is finally getting some serious competition. But Mozilla developers aren’t sitting idly by, the Firefox add-on has just... |
13 April 2010
11:02 GMT |
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Mozilla has some very capable engineers working on its biggest project, the Firefox web browser, and thousands of volunteer contributors from around the world. But it still needs some info and data from the actual users to know on which areas and features to focus development. One way it has been acquiring this data ... |
6 April 2010
07:00 GMT |
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One of the numerous ways Mozilla Labs is using to improve its products is to encourage user feedback, and their latest endeavor was to find the most popular Firefox menu items. In February, they launched a survey regarding the usage of the browser's menu bar, asking respondents to answer three questions:·... |
19 March 2010
08:03 GMT |
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Over the past few months, Mozilla ran a competition to see what kind of ideas people come up with for the new Home Tab feature, which should be introduced with Firefox 4. After the entry period closed, the organization put it to the vote with users everywhere asked to weigh in and choose their favorite design. Now th... |
18 March 2010
10:32 GMT |
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Mozilla is yet again looking ahead and trying to shape the browsing experience, adapting to the latest online trends. It is working on integrating identity features into the browser and, now, Mozilla Labs is announcing another similar project, dubbed Contacts, which, predictably, adds a contacts manager to Firefox. T... |
18 March 2010
06:55 GMT |
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