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Why Firefox Will Be Ubiquitous
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| Clearly, this is the most problematic aspect of what otherwise is an amazing
| capability. I'm already addicted to it, even though it's still a bit clunky
| under GNU/Linux: it simply makes things that I do all the time – emailing
| links, doing word counts of Web pages, mapping addresses, translating foreign
| language sites – trivially easy.
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| If you want to see the future of the Web, I suggest you download it and try
| it out. It's yet another reason why Firefox, already hugely enriched through
| myriad extensions, will take over from Internet Explorer, and yet another
| example of how open source is becoming a hotbed of online innovation.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1192&blogid=14
Introducing Ubiquity
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| You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco
| restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map.
| Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a
| web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on
| the restaurant on a search engine, and finally copying all links into the
| message being composed. This familiar sequence is an awful lot of clicking,
| typing, searching, copying, and pasting in order to do a very simple task.
| And you haven’t even really sent a map or useful reviews—only links to them.
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http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/
about:mozilla - Major update, Labs meetup, MozCamps, Web tech blog, MDC,
JavaScript, Firebug, Extend Firefox, and more…
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| In this issue…
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| * Firefox 2 gets a major update
| * Monthly Labs Meetup - Thurs, Aug 28 in SF
| * Toronto MozCamp: Workshops - Sep 15-16
| * Mozilla Camp Europe - Oct 25-26
| * Mark Surman: New Mozilla Foundation Executive Director
| * New Mozilla Web Tech weblog
| * New and improved Mozilla Developer Center
| * JavaScript performance improvements coming for Firefox 3.1
| * Firebug 1.2 released
| * Extend Firefox 3 contest winners
|
| [...]
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http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/08/26/aboutmozilla-major-update-labs-meetup-mozcamps-web-tech-blog-mdc-javascript-firebug-extend-firefox-and-more/
http://tinyurl.com/68ufd6
Recent:
Firefox translated into Ugandan language
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| A two-day translation marathon has resulted in a version of Mozilla's Firefox
| browser Firefox in Luganda, Uganda's most widely spoken language.
|
| The software will be made available by Makerere University's Faculty of
| Computing and Information Technology (CIT) with the aim of giving non-English
| speakers a browsing tool.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/081108-firefox-translated-into-ugandan.html
Mozilla experiments push Firefox envelope
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| Mozilla is experimenting with several ideas to push the browser envelope,
| including one that could turn the browser into a messaging hub.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/080808-mozilla-experiments-push-firefox.html
Microsoft Flops and Loses 7% of the Browser Market in Last 12 Months - Vista
Still Only Used by Less Than 15% of all Users, per Janco
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| Janco and the IT Productivity Center have just released their Browser and
| Operating System Market Share White Paper. The major findings are:
| Microsoft's browser market share has continued to erode and has fallen to
| 58.50% versus 65.48% (loss of 6.96%) in August 2007 and 82.99% (loss of
| 24.49%) in August 2005; Firefox has maintained its number 2 browser position
| and now is used by almost 19% (18.94%) of all users; Google Desktop has over
| 4% (4.01%) of the market; and Time Warner made a strategic error in
| abandoning Netscape as users continue to use Netscape even though AOL no
| longer supports it.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-flops-loses-7-browser/story.aspx?guid=%7B20EE86CE-9FF2-4750-A1E9-9467286EDE4E%7D&dist=hppr
Mozilla’s Firefox Wins the “Who’s the Next Open Source Idol” Crown at
LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco
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| GroundWork Open Source, Inc. (www.groundworkopensource.com), announced today
| Mozilla’s Firefox was successful in beating out the other three contestants,
| reigning champion “Tux” the Linux kernel penguin, “Beastie” the BSD demon and
| the GNU “Gnu” to become the world’s favorite Open Source Idol.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080811005403&newsLang=en
First Look: Mozilla Snowl
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| Returning to Snowl, hot on the heels of Mozilla Lab’s call for participation
| in exploring the future of the browser, and the experimental Weave service,
| comes Mozilla’s efforts to move messaging beyond email and to the types of
| communication now commonplace across social networks, blogs and services such
| as Twitter.
|
| Mozilla’s Myk Melez describes Snowl as a browser extension that helps
| users ‘follow and participate in online discussions’ and track all your
| conversations across various networks, services, protocols and messaging
| types.
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http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/08/07/first-look-mozilla-snowl/#more-3202
Firefox Most Installed Open Source Project
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| According to the Open Source Census, Ubuntu and Debian are the most used
| Linux distributions.
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/27976/news.htm
Mozilla reveals the Firefox of the future?
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| Mozilla has unveiled a spectacular new concept browser, dubbed Aurora.
|
| The bleeding-edge browser is part of a new Mozilla Labs initiative, in which
| the open-source foundation is encouraging people to contribute ideas and
| designs for the browser of the future.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/216897/mozilla-reveals-the-firefox-of-the-future.html
Mozilla Looks to Grass Roots for Next Wave of Browser Innovation
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| The Mozilla Labs Concept Series is a program for gathering from the public
| ideas on developing new software projects. The program kicked off with three
| new concept applications: the Aurora browser, a mobile version of Firefox and
| a new way to visualize bookmarks. The purpose is to let any user join the
| conversation, not just those with programming skills.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/64073.html
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