Firefox 0.9 is out
Mozilla’s Firefox project has just released version 0.9.
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Phishing might be helping Mozilla
According to broadband reports, phishing scams which exploit Microsoft Internet Explorer’s bug that allows scam artists to hide the real url of a link while displaying a legit looking address. While the story itself is interesting, theres an interesting thread evident in the comments posted by readers. A lot of them wrote about how they’ve …
Bill Gates avoids the browser issue
First concerns the current stagnation of Microsoft’s web browser. While other browsers such as Mozilla, Konqueror, and Safari sport surfer friendly features such as pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing, IE has been stuck at version 6.0 longer than I was in college it seems. Bill addresses his critics saying, "How could we ignore the browser?," …
New Mozilla project releases
I won’t try to duplicate the excellent summary Jason has put up of the new Mozilla releases. I’ll just encourage you to go try them out. And if you’re still using IE and Outlook, don’t make me come over there!
IE Complacency
Count me in this group of developers who wish Microsoft would fix their broken Internet Explorer. I also wish all you people out there still running IE 5.5 would upgrade too! But Zeldman warned against wishful thinking, noting that with hundreds of millions of people using Internet Explorer around the world, it would take more …
Some Mozilla Advocacy
Some people hate when a blog is just a collection of links to other places but here goes… You can now support Mozilla projects by buying stuff from the Mozilla activism shop Why you should switch to Mozilla’sThunderbird browser on Windows on DKR Productions: These are all great reasons, and should be enough to convince …
Getting a better browser
The next time you’ll get a new browser from Microsoft is when you shell out money for Longhorn. Realistically, sounds like we won’t see significant uptake of Longhorn for another five years. Windows users, stuck with a browser that isn’t advancing, will look to alternatives, like Mozilla, Mozilla’s Firebird Project, or Opera. These browsers already …
Amusing Spelling Errors
I’ve been trying out Mozilla’s Thunderbird standalone email program at work. For two reasons: it feels faster and more responsive, to try to ween myself off of the Mozilla bundle which consumes a lot of memory. I should check out Firebird next. Anyway, one feature of Thunderbird is spell-checking, which catches a lot of …
More Firebird resources
Adot’s notblog has a very useful summary of blog postings regarding the growing buzz surrounding Mozilla’s Firebird browser
Getting a modern browser
Slashdot found that MS IE6 SP1 will be the last standalone version that Microsoft makes available. Joel on Software writes that he is making Mozilla Firebird his default browser After downloading virtually every Mozilla release over the last three years, this is the first browser I’m actually going to make my default web browser. All …