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Mozilla Experimenting with Social Features for Firefox

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April 4th 2007
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What if instead of surfing the web, you could surf your friends? Mozilla is developing a social addition to the popular Firefox web browser, revealed Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s User Experience Lead, on the Mozilla Labs blog yesterday that will convert Firefox into an interpersonal communications tool. “What is surprising,” wrote Beltzner, [...] more...

Mozilla Releases Firefox 2.0

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October 25th 2006
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Mozilla has released version 2 of Firefox, the top rival of Microsoft’s newly released Internet Explorer 7 Web browser. New Firefox features include an updated user interface, built-in phishing warning messages, live search suggestions that appear as you type a query in the search box, better tabbed browsing, the ability [...] more...

Rockin’ Syndication, Part II

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August 8th 2006
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Robin Stanton

Well, it has taken a few weeks to finish this article for the mere fact that technology was my mortal enemy for a bit. Like I said before, RSS feeds or “Rockin’ Syndication” is an awesome way to get notice out about products, news and promotions for your clients. This [...] more...

Google, RealNetworks, Mozilla Link Up for Distribution Deal

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August 3rd 2006
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According to a Reuters report, Google today announced that it has extended a two-year distribution pact with RealNetworks to promote Google software across Real’s entertainment and multimedia products. Also joining in the fray is Mozilla Corp, whose increasingly popular Firebox browser will now integrate Google Toolbar and Real’s RealPlayer audio/video software. This [...] more...

Mozilla Picks Winners of Firefox Flicks

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April 28th 2006
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Mozilla has just announced the winners of its Firefox Flicks video contest at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The winning videos were selected from nearly 300 submissions created by Firefox enthusiasts from around the world, who responded to the opportunity to help promote Firefox through short film. The lucky grand [...] more...

Firefox Sets Precedent for Third-Party Ads on Google

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April 27th 2006
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Third-party advertising has finally broken into Google’s coveted, spacious white front page. An ad appearing for Internet Explorer users on Tuesday and taken down by Wednesday promoted the Firefox Toolbar, an application included in the Internet software bundle Google Pack. Aside from the massive amount of impressions the space garnered in [...] more...

Firefox Wraps Up Flicks Fest

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April 19th 2006
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Since earlier this year, the Mozilla Foundation has been running a grassroots video campaign/contest to promote their popular Firefox web browser. As previously reported, Firefoxflicks.com encourages visitors to create 30 second video ads highlighting the benefits of using Firefox, and encouraging viewers to visit Getfirefox.com, where they can download the [...] more...

Firefox Enlists Search Security Solution from GeoTrust

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April 11th 2006
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E-Business security solutions provider GeoTrust today announced the availability of its free TrustWatch search service for the Mozilla Firefox browser. Firefox users can now immediately see a “trusted” search rating displayed next to each search result when using the Google search engine built into Firefox. With Trustwatch, Firefox hopes to help [...] more...

Yahoo Tweaks Firefox-Based Toolbar

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February 10th 2006
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Yahoo! has added new features to its toolbar for the latest version of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser. Yahoo! Toolbar Product Manager, Jon Granrose, wrote in Yahoo’s search blog, “The Yahoo! Firefox Toolbar 1.0 worked well with Firefox 1.5, and since that release launched, we’ve been working hard to fix a [...] more...

Google Advises Gmail Users to Axe Ad-block

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February 8th 2006
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According to a post made Monday on the Google Gmail Help Center, Google is advising customers who use Gmail with Firefox to turn of the popular AdBlock extension. This week Google introduces a new feature to Gmail that combines Gmail with their Google Talk instant messager service. Those Gmail users [...] more...