Mozilla, Gecko Archive

Firefox 1.0.1 is a security update for the 27 million users who have already downloaded the free browser. The Mozilla Foundation encourages all users to download the update.

Minimo, the Mozilla browser for mobile devices, is poised to move beyond Linux PDAs and onto Windows CE devices, according to the Mozilla Foundation. Screenshot here (mobile version of OSNews is showing). Elsewhere, the Mozilla chairman Mitch Kapor speaks out.

One of the main reasons for the Firefox browser's successful seizure of market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer is the desire to escape the inundation of PC-slowing spyware. However, spyware experts indicate that with its increased popularity, Firefox itself will become a target for spyware creators, who are already poking at the open source browser alternative. Elsewhere, a new security hole found affecting most browsers except IE.

Firefox lead engineer turned Google developer, Ben Goodger, announced on his Web log late this week that version 1.1 of Firefox will be delayed.

WSJ's Mossberg reviews Firefox. PC World thinks Firefox gives bloatware-haters hope. A not-quite-reliable, but interesting, claim that IE's share has lost 30% of the browser market.

I guess shelling out big bucks for a New York Times ad is paying off. The New York Times has published an article about Firefox in their technology section, outlining its provenance, its recent rise in fortune, and the competitive landscape of the newly-competitive-again browser wars. (Firefox users can take advantage of the Bugmenot Extension to handle the NYT login).

Thunderbird 1.0 is Mozilla’s next generation e-mail client rate it here. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry’s best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, saved search folders, builtin RSS support, privacy protection and much more. Elsewhere, Evolution 2.0.3 was released too (rate it here).

The biggest obstacle facing widespread adoption of the Firefox browser is lazy programming – not from the Mozilla Foundation but from corporates that have not tested their applications with anything but IE. And this is a good opportunity to remind new OSNews readers about our mobile-friendly site.

Blake Ross started working on building "a better" browser while other kids were just getting hooked on instant messenger. He worked on the earlier versions of Netscape at the age of 14 and eventually interned for the company following his freshman year of high school.

Just because Firefox is free and open source doesn't mean developers aren't cashing in on the popularity of the Mozilla Foundation's new browser.

After 19 months of development, two name changes and more than 8 million downloads of its preview release, the Firefox browser is finally turning 1.0. Firefox is scheduled to be available for free download at 1 a.m. PDT Tuesday. Our Take: Sky's the limit. After Thunderbird (and third-party NVU & Mozilla-Calendar), I would love to see the Mozilla Project build a multi-IM application (ICQ, AIM/iChat, MSN, Y!, Jabber, etc) with the same design/usability goals as Firefox, coupled with good voice and video support (support which lacks on all third party multi-protocol IM solutions today). UPDATE: It's out.

The Mozilla Project released Firefox 1.0-RC2 for testing. Thunderbird 0.9 also available.

Bart Decrem, marketing contact for the Mozilla Foundation, told ZDNet UK on Friday that he expects the browser's market share to reach 10 percent by the end of 2005.

Ben Goodger is the lead engineer for the open-source browser Firefox, which has been gaining in popularity in a market overwhelmingly dominated by Microsoft. He talks about Firefox's history, and how he sees it competing with Longhorn in this interview.