gHacks technology news:
Thunderbird day today? Not sure about that but today is the day where two interesting new add-ons have been posted at the Thunderbird website. The first was the add-on that increased the mass mailing functionality in the web (Read More)
Submitted by loucypher
from Google Reader:
I put together a demo of incrementing numbers in URLs by scrolling.Hopefully it's not considered a bug that I can use rangeOffset for a text node "inside" a textbox ;) Trying to access rangeParent throws a security exception (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze a new breed of content site that is rapidly gaining momentum, look into recent statistics showing that Gen Y is using (Read More)
Mashable!:
We’ve had a number of close calls here during our Web Faceoff series, but this wasn’t one of them. This week we pitted TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop against each other in a bar room brawl for favorite Twitter client. Now, th (Read More)
Submitted by loucypher
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Building an add-on for Fennec (mobile Firefox) can be a bit tedious. We release desktop versions of Fennec that allow developers to test and play with their add-ons without the need for a mobile device. However, there are a f (Read More)
The Mozilla Blog:
The results from the Mozilla Creative Collective’s “Firefox Goes Mobile” design challenge are in, and I’m happy to announce that the winner is “Pocketfox”, by Yaroslaff Chekunov. As the official emblem of the upcoming mobile (Read More)
Submitted by loucypher
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We are happy to announce the release of Jetpack 0.6. Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons.Jetpack 0.6 adds two maj (Read More)
Submitted by loucypher
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Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons.We are happy to announce that we have a winner for the Jetpack 0.5 contest. Gi (Read More)
Submitted by loucypher
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Back in the mists of time I wrote some code to make nightly testers’ lives easier by giving them a simple preference to flip if they wanted to be able to install and use incompatible extensions. It’s been more than three year (Read More)
wired-top-stories:
From left to right, Mozilla’s director of mobile Stuart Parmenter, director of Firefox development Mike Beltzner, manager of Firefox’s frontend features team Johnathan Nightingale and team lead of graphics Vladimir Vukićević. (Read More)
CNET News.com:
Just eight days after a previous update, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 introduces fast fixes for three bugs, one of which was critical. Google Chrome has also been updated for security and stability. (Read More)
Lifehacker:
There's nothing terribly exciting to speak of in today's Firefox 3.5.5 update; from the looks of the tiny changelog, it looks like one critical security fix and a few other minor bug fixes will make their way to your browser. (Read More)
webmonkey:
Mozilla has updated Weave, its free add-on for Firefox that syncs your personal data across multiple PCs. Weave 0.8 is a vast improvement over its predecessor, featuring a huge speed boost and a revamped user interface that m (Read More)
Mozilla Labs:
We just released the latest version of Test Pilot, and a new study is coming soon!One of the problems with the Test Pilot extension so far has been that we’ve needed to release a new version of the extension every time we wan (Read More)
New York Times:
Google, Mozilla and Opera are said to be requesting changes to an E.U. proposal that would give Windows users a chance to choose a default browser other than Internet Explorer.
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Latest from Computerworld:
Mozilla plans to overhaul the look and feel of Firefox for Windows, a redesign that will resemble Google's Chrome in several key elements, according to screenshots and discussions on the open-source developer's Web site. (Read More)
Submitted by spaceufo
from Google Reader:
언젠가부터 자주 만나는 에러. 아마 Firefox 3 이후부터였던 듯. services.addons.mozilla.org에 직접 접속해도 에러를 뿌리는 걸 보면, 아마도 서버 설정의 문제인 듯.해결방법은 about:config나 설정파일에서 services.addons.mozilla.org를 모두 addons.mozilla.org로 변경한다.참고http://www.ppomppu.co.kr/zboard (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The Sunlight Foundation, in partnership with Google, Mozilla and Redhat, today announced a nation-wide weekend hackathon dedicated to coding projects that foster government transparency. Scheduled for December 12th and 13th (Read More)