Tag: MOZILLA LABS

After teasing us earlier this month, Mozilla Labs has now opened its doors on the Game On 2010 competition. Other than the stipulation that the front-end of the game uses only Open Web technologies -- HTML, CSS, and JavaScript -- anything goes. No plug-ins or add-ons can be used, but the back-end server-side portion, if the game requires it, can be written in any language. Games will be ...

Another week has slid past, and again both 3.6.4 and 3.5.10 have failed to emerge! I can only assume that Mozilla is feverishly working away on a critical bug or feature -- and really, unless they get 3.6.4 out of the door this week, I don't think we'll see Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 this month. Here's hoping! In unrelated news, Thunderbird 3.1RC2 came out this week. You know, I've never met anyone ...

A happy, sweaty Friday to you all! This week we were meant to see the final release of 3.6.4, the minor release that 'crash proofs' Firefox. Instead, we have a release candidate -- the final release will probably come later in the month (along with the first beta of Firefox 4.0!) Early testing from Mozilla suggests that 3.6.4's Crash Protection may significantly reduce crashes, so even if you ...

Happy Friday! If you're American: enjoy your crashing market. If you're British: Change! Change! Oh wait... I guess 'change!' is kind of American too. Anyway... I had hoped to have some interview responses from an important bigwig at Mozilla, but it looks like I'll be deferring that until next week. Instead,you get some fitting, slow-going news to peruse as your Friday waxes gently into ...

It's an uncomfortable truth, but your Web browser probably knows more about you than your best friend. It's just a fact of life online. Your browser knows your name, your browsing habits, your interests, your bank balance, your passwords... in essence it really knows everything about you -- and this is something that Mozilla Labs wants to capitalize on! Introducing: the Account Manager add-on ...

Hot on the heels of Personas 1.0, released back in April, Mozilla Labs have just released the first major update: Personas 2.0! As Lee pointed out during the initial launch, it's now even easier to make an ugly Firefox. Personas themselves might in some case be butt-ugly, but damn the Mozilla Labs site is beautiful. But other than a pretty website... there isn't a whole lot new to report. You ...

Jetpack is certainly an interesting project, and the fact that it brings no-restart add-on-like functionality to Firefox is awesome. Today, Mozilla announced the launch of the Jetpack Gallery. It is to jetpacks what the Firefox add-ons site is to traditional add-ons. Up until now, Jetpack users had pretty limited options for finding packs - a single page of descriptions and links maintained by ...

The lead designer for Mozilla Messaging describes Mozilla's new communication tool, Raindrop, this way: "Raindrop is not another email client. We started from scratch with fresh ideas about what a communication application should be ... " Sound familiar? That's the same promise we heard from Google Wave a few months ago. Raindrop is similar to Wave in some ways, but it takes a completely ...

Mozilla Labs has finally finished up work on their Test Pilot program and is now looking for help from Firefox users of all levels. For those of you that don't know, the program is designed to help Mozilla test ideas to continue developing Firefox. The program was originally announced in January and little was known about it at the time. Mozilla Labs is now ready to get started and today revealed ...

If you've been waiting for a browser than natively supports location-based services, here's your first taste. Firefox 3.1 is all set to include geolocation based on a new WC3 standard, but you can test it out now with a Firefox add-on called Geode, from Mozilla Labs. Geode lets websites request your location the same way they request to install add-ons or open blocked popups. The possibilities ...