Firefox 3 beta 4 now available for testing, Mar 11, 2008

Firefox 3 is closer to the finish line with the release of beta 4 tonight.

Mozilla has released a third beta version of Firefox 3, bringing about 1,300 changes to the widely used open-source Web browser.

First Red Hat turned to Delta for its new CEO. Now Mozilla has appointed John Lilly its new CEO. While Lilly has some time in at Mozilla, most of his past has been spent in proprietary software companies.

As the season of giving nears its apex, Mozilla got into the spirit, announcing on Wednesday the release of Web browser Firefox 3 Beta 2 for testing.

Mozilla Foundation, the organization behind the Firefox web browser, has defended itself against claims from sections of the Linux community that it has ignored Linux in the development of Firefox 3, the next generation of the browser. Mozilla's chief interface designer says Linux is very much included in the development project.

Millions of people rely on the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, but now some of them might not be able to access the content they want, thanks to the latest update.

Officials at Mozilla said they have released an update to fix a flaw in the recently released 2.0.0.10 version of their Firefox browser.

Last night I downloaded the latest beta release from Mozilla, Firefox 3 Beta 1, meaning to just have a look-see so that I could pen a few impressions. Since then, I haven't bothered to load up Firefox 2 because, even though it's a pre-production test version, Firebox 3 Beta 1 is a mighty fine browser.

Firefox is headed for the beauty salon. The new look won't make it in the upcoming beta 1 release, but there's a new look on the way for the third version of the venerable browser.

Mozilla is close to releasing the first beta of Firefox 3.0, which is several months behind schedule.

While work on Firefox 3.0 continues, the developers at the Mozilla Foundation have released a new update for the 2.x series of its open-source web browser. Firefox 2.0.0.8 is already available in several languages for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. The new version is also being gradually distributed via the browser's automatic update function.

Mozilla's CEO Thursday evening answered charges that the company is dropping development of the Thunderbird e-mail client because of its partnership with Google.

Mozilla's Sunbird calendaring application lives perpetually in the shadow of its siblings Firefox and Thunderbird, garnering just a fraction of the developer effort and publicity lavished on the browser and email client. Nevertheless, it is slowing maturing into a reliable tool worthy of the Mozilla brand.

Mozilla's Firefox (FF) web browser has made dramatic gains on Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) throughout Europe in the past year with a marked upturn in FF use compared to IE over the past four months, according to French web monitoring service XiTiMonitor.

Songbird is a new music player from a San Francisco startup with the unique name Pioneers of the Inevitable.

The Mozilla Foundation has released security updates to fix multiple flaws that could result in system hijacking in its open-source Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client and SeaMonkey Internet applications suite.

Mozilla chief Mitchell Baker prefers to call herself the company's "chief lizard wrangler", a reference to the organisation's original dinosaur logo and to the difficulties of managing a company that has 90 official staff but a volunteer workforce of 200,000.

Mozilla has met a major milestone in its march to Firefox 3.0, developers said yesterday, by adding another chunk of the new Places feature to the alpha set for release late next week.

Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox browser will probably abandon support for older distributions of Linux, a company executive has said.

Mozilla today released the final version of Thunderbird 2, the next generation of the organization's open-source email client. Key new features include message tagging, message history, and a new function to search for content within messages, among numerous other enhancements.

Firefox cannot be stopped: close to 25% of the European use rate. The use rate in Europe still remains lower than Oceania's since November 2006.

With this decision to refocus the Mozilla project and build Firefox, [Blake] Ross did much more than just create a stand-alone browser version of Mozilla.

When Firefox 3.0 is released later this year, the open-source browser is likely to contain a host of new features, including offline support for Web applications and new bookmark and search features. Mozilla released the second alpha version of Firefox 3.0 earlier this month.

The Thunderbird email client doesn't get half the attention that its big brother, the Firefox browser, gets, but the Mozilla Foundation has finally gotten around to lavishing some love on it, and the first beta of version 2 is now out.

Programmers from Red Hat, Novell and the Mozilla Foundation have pledged closer cooperation to ease technical obstacles that exist today, work planned to result in versions of the Firefox browser tailored for different versions of Linux.

A study sanctioned by Mozilla gives Firefox 2 a big win over Microsoft's IE 7 in the battle to block ID theft scam sites, but both browsers still come up short when pitted against active phishing URLs.

The early release this week of the Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Web browser is another shot in the arm for the open source IE competitor but one industry analyst is less optimistic about Firefox's ability to compete with Microsoft.

Not to be outdone by Microsoft's recent release of Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla is planning the second major release of its rival Firefox browser tomorrow.

Neither Mozilla Firefox nor Mozilla Thunderbird are likely to be in the next Debian GNU/Linux release. Mozilla is still hoping that it can come to an agreement with Debian but at this point it seems likely that Debian users will see IceWeasel (for Firefox) and IceDove (for Thunderbird).

Depending on whose numbers you believe, Firefox has been continuing to erode IE's (Internet Explorer's) lead.

Use of Internet Explorer is continuing to decline at the expense of Mozilla's Firefox, making the imminent launch of IE7 even more vital for Microsoft.

The truth is, while Mozilla Firefox is open source, it is not entirely free, and it may not even be legally compatible with Debian GNU/Linux, one of the most popular community Linux distribution bases.

Future versions of OpenOffice.org will come bundled with Mozilla's Thunderbird email client and Lightning calendar application.

The OSS Watch Survey 2006 reveals that 68% of the 114 institutions who responded to the survey have deployed Mozilla Firefox or the Mozilla Application Suite on at least some of their campus desktops

Mozilla Corp. on Tuesday delayed the release of the second beta of its Firefox 2.0 browser by a week.

RealNetworks said Wednesday that it has agreed to a multiyear agreement to offer Mozilla's Firefox Web browser with downloads of its RealPlayer, Rhapsody and RealArcade software programs.

The "portable" version of Firefox 1.5.0.5 is now released, developer John Haller reports. "Portable Firefox" is the Mozilla Firefox web browser integrated with a "launcher" that makes it a fully portable app, enabling users to take their bookmarks, extensions, and saved passwords with them to whatever computer they're working on.

The browser wars are heating up, as the first beta of Firefox 2.0 is due on Tuesday July 11th, and Internet Explorer version 7.0 is now on it's third beta release.

Mozilla released an additional "security and stability" update to its Thunderbird email client, v1.5.0.4, on June 1. Thunderbird 1.0.8 is still serving as the final stable release in the Thunderbird 1.0.x product line, with the upgraded version 1.5.0 released in conjunction with Firefox 1.5 last November.

Firefox's emergence as a genuine challenger to Internet Explorer has made Microsoft sit up and take notice. The giant US software group has already started to respond to some of the innovative work done by Mozilla and the open-source community.

A group of self-titled "political activists" in Massachusetts has started an aggressive campaign to get browser users to switch from Microsoft's Internet Explorer to Mozilla's Firefox.

The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox 1.5 blew away the competition to take the top award in the Enterprise Linux category in the Datamation Product of the Year 2006 awards.

While Firefox and Thunderbird are the poster children of open-source Internet application success, the program suite they sprang from, Mozilla, was reborn Jan. 30 under a new name: SeaMonkey.

Marketing professionals rate Firefox a more influential brand than eBay or Sony

Firefox's tale is a curious one. The closer one looks, the more it appears to be a cooler, hipper, and safer incarnation of the allegedly deceased Netscape.

The Mozilla Corporation is gearing up to launch a large-scale marketing drive when Firefox 1.5 is released.

The Mozilla Foundation's popular open-source browser, Firefox, turned one year old yesterday. An executive at Mozilla stated, that demand for the Firefox browser had completely out-stripped the company s expectations.

The Mozilla Foundation has released a second beta of the Firefox 1.5 Web browser that, like the first version released last month, focuses on tackling nagging security issues.

Mozilla Corp. has launched a website for developers wanting to build on the Mozilla platform -- the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC), unofficially dubbed "DevMo."

It's not that Firefox, and other open-source programs, don't have security holes. They do. The key difference, from an open-source advocate's viewpoint, is that everyone can see what's going on, so as soon as a problem is reported it can be fixed.

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