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Firefox team stops collecting data to ensure user privacy

Firefox team stops collecting data to ensure user privacyPrivate should always be the primary concernIn todays Internet world it is becoming more and more difficult to maintain privacy and security. No matter what the justification it should never be permitted to collect personally identifiable data on users without their...

Tags: Web browsers, Team management, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox team, user privacy, team

Discussion threads 2009-01-09

Firefox 3.1 beta cycle pushed back to pack in more features

 Mozilla has decided to extend development time of  Firefox 3.1 by four weeks to expand the scope of features in the point release. With that, the team expects the code for beta 1 to freeze September 30 and the code freeze for beta 2 to fall on November 4, said Mike Beltzner, a...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Beta, Mozilla Corp., Feature, Firefox Team, Mozilla Team, Web Browsers, Internet, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-09-17

New tab switching, search results features debut in Firefox 3.1 Alpha 1

Firefox 3.1 alpha 1 landed roughly as scheduled this week with little fanfare, and is now available for developer testing. There are a number of new features in the dot one release, most notably a new tab switching feature and more control over what search results are displayed in the...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Search Result, Tab, Control-Tab, Control-Tab Feature, Firefox Team, Web Browsers, Internet, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Firefox 3 RC1 code complete, due in late May

Mozilla now expects Firefox 3 RC1 will be ready to go in late May. RC1 was originally planned to be released last month but several bugs have arisen during the final phase of development that needed to be addressed, including problems with the new Places bookmarking feature, themes UI and...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Corp., Firefox Team, Web Browsers, Internet, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-11

Firefox team accepts Microsoft help

Firefox team accepts Microsoft helpI hope they set up a VERY secure VPN to mozilla.org...Otherwise MSFT -which owns the LAN and the backbone at Redmondia- will have a field day collecting passwords and logging private e-mail exchanges between the Mozarella's top brass and the coders... just by installing a packet...

Tags: Web browsers, OPEN SOURCE, team, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Firefox Team

Discussion threads 2006-08-23

Firefox team accepts Microsoft help

When Microsoft's open source lab offered to help the Mozilla foundation with getting Firefox to run well on Vista, reactions ranged from skeptical and suspicious to surprised and excited. But in fact, the two teams have already been quietly working together. In this thread, Mike Schroepfer wrote "we are already...

Tags: team

Blog posts 2006-08-22

Fixes coming for Windows flaws

Fixes coming for Windows flawsMaybe because......a few vocal but uninformed people make a lot of noise claiming that Firefox is invulnerable.Carl RapsonBe fair!Come on be fair! If everytime that there was a critical security patch to Windows it would be pretty old to see it in huge print.Where as, because...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, SECURITY, Firefox Team, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, flaw, exploit, Windows Flaw, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Firefox 1.5

Discussion threads 2005-12-08

Additional Resources

Psystar massacred in court

I wouldn't.....buy even with a 100% discount, Psystar is toast and part of Apple's claim would invoke a recall of all machines and buyer's info. Apart from the 'no support' from Apple, there will be no support from a defunct company too.Yep, there is pent-up demand for an expandable cheap...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Where should Mozilla go from here?

Consolidation and security, Now!Firefox has emerged as the most buggy browser robustness and security. It has more vulnerabilities discovered than any other browser, month after month. Each new release sees new stability and robustness problems.And Firefox still does not have support for sandboxing.Repeatedly they have to patch patches because their...

Tags: Web browsers, IE8, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Web browser, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

CYK Desktop Twitter Interface 1.05 (Windows)

CYK Desktop: Twitter Interface Easy Version is an simple to operate no training required Twitter Interface. It has been designed with HCI Human Computer Interaction in mind - and the desktop is intuitive to use and manipulate. CYK Desktop gives you the ability to log into your Twitter Account securely...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Microsoft Windows, APO Networks, Desktops, Web Browsers, Hardware, Internet

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Google Wave: Has potential, but let loose too soon

Open sourceKeep in mind that the code to developers is completely open source. If someone wants to make their own wave software or use the real time HTML 5 support for something else.Besides this is just a preview of the basics. Open to only 100,000 people, you can't expect much....

Tags: Google Inc., developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Google defines its focus in Apps in 2010

Chrostopher: the need for detailed formatting as we know it is going away.Actually, the detailed formatting is moving to making it look like you want on computer screens, NOT on paper, which is quite different.All of those baroque features for printing on 8.5x11 paper are looking more stupid every day.Interesting...

Tags: OpenOffice, Document management, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Sneak Preview: Chrome OS Browser Video Tour

Another videoThere's another video on a blog at http://chromeos-blog.com that also shows the browser. It's 3 mins.RE: Sneak Preview: Chrome OS Browser Video TourWith Google in the fight against MS over MS tyingbundling their browser to their OS, can someone explain to me why its ok for Google to make...

Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Web browser, operating system, Chrome, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Google: It's not me, it's you

Wow, this thing is coolI'm a Google fan, but so far this looks much betterI know!I love it. It doesn't have all topics, but it had most of the stuff I searched for.weak, not for techiesJust put some not very popular words and the result yields nothing.Hmm interestingLast I spoke...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., Kosmix, search engine

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Mozilla UX chief: What's next for Mozilla, Firefox and the Web

IE team had been laid off?!Is that what Raskin said, or you? Wherever did he or you get that idea? AFAIK they got combined with the User/GDI folks to become the Avalon WPF team. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Michael-Wallent-Advent-and-Evolution-of-WPF/RE: Mozilla UX chief: What's next for Mozilla, Firefox and the Web4 years...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Web

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Missing what open source cannot afford

FOSS needs some town hallsto get free air time on the news and to educate the users on the perils of closed source.I have to disagree ...I'm not sure how isolated you are, but my experience with open source through OpenNMS has been quite different.Sure, companies like mine that are...

Tags: open source, OpenNMS

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Windows SMB2 exploit now public; Expect in-the-wild attacks soon

Another "researcher" makes a name for himself.So, just why was it necessary for for this Bozo to actually "create and release the code" for the exploit? Let me guess. His company makes money by hyping up the level of fear. See their web page where they say...

Tags: Firewalls, SECURITY, Network security, Patches, Microsoft Windows, Windows SMB2, attack, firewall, antivirus

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Mozilla plans to "Ribbonize" Firefox

compact menu was there years ago, far ahead of whatever chrome, ie, safari whats the point, you really want to dig and find out who started everything?whewI almost was worried for a few but then you said its not changing on other platforms :) Thankfully Linux is still safe from...

Tags: Web browsers, Party Like It, ribbon, Mozilla Corp., atrocity, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2009-09-22