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Mozilla seems to have hit a sweet spot with Personas, the theme engine add-on for Firefox and Thunderbird. While the browser had customization options before and themes support from the early stages, most people weren't using them, either because they found it complicated or found the selection of themes was ra... |
19 November 2009
07:41 GMT |
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Weave, one of the biggest project over at Mozilla Labs, the organization's experimental arm, is getting closer to production level. The first step of the project, the bookmarks and settings sync add-on, has reached the beta stage with Mozilla Weave Sync 1.0 beta. This latest version is the culmination of a lot o... |
17 November 2009
03:18 GMT |
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Mozilla's Jetpack project is starting to leave the experimental phase and become a major project for the organization. Following on the footsteps of another Mozilla Labs project Personas, Jetpack now has its very own online gallery to showcase the “Jetpacks” created so far. It was bound to happen so... |
12 November 2009
03:24 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs has released the latest version of the upcoming extension, platform Jetpack 0.6. The latest iteration of the still-experimental API brings just a couple of new features, like the new preference system and the possibility to create and modify menus, but also a big number of bug fixes polishing up the exis... |
9 November 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs is working on several interesting projects at a time. Some graduate and become integral parts of Firefox, like Personas, but others are more long-run projects. One of them, Mozilla Weave, has the potential to change the way we use browsers and the web, but for now it's still pretty much in the early... |
6 November 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Firefox is always evolving and adding new features and changes to the functionality. Most of the times developers try to do the best they can to meet the users' needs, but usually there isn't enough data to really know in what direction to move next. This is why Mozilla has introduced the Test Pilot program... |
5 November 2009
09:07 GMT |
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Firefox has always been about choice and customization. One of the greatest appeals of the browser was the possibility to alter the look and feel and add new functionality with user-created extensions. One component of the customization process has been the option to use different themes to change how the browser loo... |
27 October 2009
12:17 GMT |
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In just a matter of years, Firefox has risen to become the number 2 browser on the market, even in the context of Microsoft’s Windows monopoly. But while the focus on the Internet/Cloud continues to increase, the relevance and importance of browsers in end user scenarios becomes critical. Mozilla, just as other... |
19 October 2009
10:31 GMT |
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It took a little longer than the previous one to bake but the new version of Mozilla's Jetpack add-on framework for Firefox is now live and brimming with new features. Maybe not exactly brimming but the ones that are included make the wait worth while for developers and users alike. Jetpack 0.5's biggest n... |
12 September 2009
03:12 GMT |
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Despite the very short release schedule, the people at Mozilla Labs always manage to get a significant number of new features and improvements with every iteration of their projects. The latest version of Mozilla Weave Sync is no exception, with 0.6 bringing a greatly improved and simplified UI as well as better perf... |
28 August 2009
08:41 GMT |
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John Resig, the creator of the infamous jQuery JavaScript library, has announced on GitHub the release of a new Mozilla Labs project, called TestSwarm. Developed under his supervision, this is still in Alpha development, and even if it's not yet featured on the Mozilla Labs official page, he has confirmed that i... |
27 August 2009
05:39 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs is announcing a new site aimed at web developers showcasing some of the best and most popular open web tools available. The Open Web Tools Directory already hosts a number of tools but, so far, it has provided just some basic information and a link to the homepage for every project. “As we’... |
7 July 2009
11:12 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 RTW, the gold build of IE7's successor, has been successfully locked out of a Mozilla Labs project designed to highlight a selection of web development tools available. The Open Web Tools Directory from Mozilla Labs aims to be a central index of tools that have been put together in order to s... |
7 July 2009
07:04 GMT |
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Mozilla introduced Jetpack, an application programming interface designed to permit developers to apply web development technologies and skills to building Firefox add-ons, in May 2009. Since the initial, 0.1 version release of the API, no less than four updates were introduced, focused mainly on resolving bugs with ... |
12 June 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs' experiment of connecting the web with language is moving to the next stage in its evolution. Come mid-June 2009, Ubiquity will evolve to version 0.5. Jono DiCarlo, from the Ubiquity development team, explained that the 0.5 versioning was designed to illustrate the fact that the next iteration of th... |
1 June 2009
04:19 GMT |
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With Jetpack for Firefox, Mozilla Labs is nothing short of exploring new ways to extend and personalize the web. The project is designed to lend a streamline add-on development for the Firefox open-source browser. Mozilla recognized developers building add-ons for Firefox as a source of innovation on the Internet, nu... |
21 May 2009
08:36 GMT |
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Mozilla has released the first fully fledged Beta version of its solution designed to enable end users to bridge their desktops with the Cloud. Prism 1.0 Beta, a project from Mozilla Labs, is now available for download, a total of 18 months since the project was initially introduced. The role of Prism was made clear ... |
11 May 2009
06:38 GMT |
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With the Firefox browser already positioned as an open platform for applications, Mozilla is now experimenting with delivering to developers the accompanying tools and resources necessary to build applications. This is where Bespin comes in. Mozilla Labs put together and launched version 0.1, which it calls a prototy... |
13 February 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Mozilla aims to build a new program designed to harvest end-user data for its open source projects, but especially Firefox. Firefox Test Pilot is currently nothing more than an initiative debuted under the Mozilla Labs umbrella, in order to lay out the concept behind the project, and to attract interest and identify ... |
21 January 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Mozilla introduced Firefox Snowl in the first half of August 2008, and the open source project evolved into its next stage as of January 12, 2009. Mozilla Labs unveiled Firefox Snowl 0.2, moving onward with the development of the solution, from the initial release, which was, by all means, an extremely primitive prot... |
13 January 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Snowl is designed to extend the functionality of Firefox beyond the default tasks associated with the process of navigating web content. In fact, this is the premise of Snowl, that the open source browser is capable of dealing with content in addition to what it was originally designed for. Snowl, a project from Mozi... |
7 August 2008
12:43 GMT |
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Mozilla is looking well past Firefox 3.1 and 4.0, the next versions of its open source browser, and is not doing it alone, as it is inviting the community to explore the future of Firefox with no holding back from bold, radical and even crazy ideas. In this regard, Chris Beard, Vice President and General Manager of M... |
6 August 2008
10:04 GMT |
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