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Heard on the radio: "Switch to Firefox!"

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:47:56 -0700

A couple of folks here at Mozilla in Mountain View mentioned hearing some enthusiastic recommendations for Firefox this morning on KQED radio's Forum show. Here's the show archive; the segment is a talk about the Web 2.0 Summit and the clip about Firefox starts at about 45:30. The guests are journalists Sarah Lacy and Brad Stone. Sarah mentions the Firefox crop circle and the efforts by thousands of individual people to help Firefox gain momentum.

Spreading Firefox Through WDAG.org

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:48:48 -0800

Check out my website/blog called Where Did America Go? at http://wdag.org
And of course... it is best viewed using Firefox. I'll keep spreading the word to Amercia and spreading the use of Firefox!

Thanks,
Editor - wdag.org

I did it...

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:03:02 -0800

I add firefox to my website can someone please check it out and tell me how i looks I need to know i hope its not to big, if it is let me know..

Splashmyspace.com

Thank You Firefox for making this new browser!!!

Firefox and U4H, Inc.

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:48:06 -0700

Specializing in .tv channels and Internet Television Broadcasting, U4H, Inc. allows corporations to meet the demand for media rich content head on. It is no surprise the Internet and Television have merged. Web pages are becoming pieces of software. The way the youth are using technologies and search engines have forced web design to change. U4H, Inc. has many solutions and ideas that are revolutionizing the Internet. With an understanding of technology, where technology is going, and global cultures U4H, Inc. is reaching out to FireFox to form a collaborative relationship. FireFox is encouraged to visit Unity 4 Humanity, Inc.'s official home page www.unity4humanity.com and www.u4hcore.com, Unity 4 Humanity, Inc.'s team of core consultants home.

U4H and FireFox have the unique opportunity to create the future software that will fuel, structure, and organize globally recognized sites and .tv Internet Channels. U4H and FireFox have the opportunity to truly structure the world of .tv channels and Internet Television Broadcasting. Please contact Anthony Galima the CEO of Unity 4 Humanity, Inc. directly and work towards building to dreams and not limitations! FireFox can be in the future ahead of their Internet competitors! U4H, Inc. asks individuals and corporations to explore its Global Web Presence, Mission statement and encourage FireFox to contact them. The official starting point of U4H, Inc.'s global web presence is www.unity4humanity.com.

Global Web Presence™ and .tv Channels

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:12:04 -0700

Global Web Presence™ is a term and business solution U4H, Inc. utilizes to structure and showcase an Internet corporate identity to a new and better advantage. This structure incorporates and integrates the functions of a .com and .tv channel with other TLD’s functioning as peripherals. A .tv channel is a necessary foundation in the creation of a Global Web Presence. These .tv’s need to be synchronized with the established functions of the .com’s. A .com and a .tv are different and when used in tandem are natural complements. Utilizing a dot tv channel gives freedom of expression and unlimited marketing opportunities. For more information about Unity 4 Humanity, Inc. please go to U4H, Inc.’s official home page www.unity4humanity.com.

Mozilla Digital Memory Bank Podcast Episode 10 Blake Ross

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:57:45 -0700

Last June we met with Firefox co-founder Blake Ross. It proved a very interesting interview, with topics ranging from Firefox, to open source, to starting your own company.

Download the podcast here.

Listen to the full interview here.

And please take a moment to contribute the archive here.

World Information Society Award 2007 Laureates

Thu, 17 May 2007 22:49:15 -0700

Seen at heise online news:

Mozilla von der International Telecommunications Union ausgezeichnet
... Ein weiterer Award geht an die Mozilla Corporation, vertreten durch die Mozilla-Chefin Mitchell Baker.
"Mozilla ist keine tradionelle Software-Firma. Es ist eine globale Gemeinschaft, eine öffentliche Wohltätigkeitsorganisation, die sich dafür einsetzt, die Internet-Erfahrung für Menschen in aller Welt zu verbessern",
heißt es in der Begründung der ITU, die den Award sonst nur an Personen vergibt. Mit der Auszeichnung für das Open Source-Projekt werde der Ansatz geehrt, dass auch die Ärmsten erstklassige Software nutzen können.

Mozilla receives this unusual honor …

... for its outstanding contribution towards the development of world-class Internet Technologies and Applications

Details and more information at International Telecommunication Union

~peter

Mozilla CEO speaks out on future of Firefox

Tue, 08 May 2007 09:27:59 -0700

Here are the headlines of an interwiew with Mitchell Baker, CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, about past, present and future of Firefox:

The interview's over 8,000 words long, so we've broken it up into sections to make it easier to navigate.

    * Part 1: How 12 people made Firefox 1.0
    * Part 2: Where Firefox's $US55million a year comes from
    * Part 3: Putting Firefox on mobile phones
    * Part 4: business cool on IE7, recontemplating Firefox?
    * Part 5: Why no built-in ad-blocker in Firefox yet?
    * Part 6: Firefox 3.0 "lock-in branding" -- what gives!
    * Part 7: Firefox to go head-to-head with Flash and Silverlight
    * Part 8: The touchy relationship between Microsoft and Mozilla
    * Part 9: Getting Firefox onto more desktops
    * Part 10: Mozilla Japan's cute Firefox cartoon character
    * Part 11: The stoush over Linux distros and the Firefox trademark
    * Part 12: Mozilla working on "Web 3.0" -- web apps that will run in your browser without an internet connection

The full text of the interwiew can be found at APC.

A german extract has been written at PCWELT.

I recommend to read the APC-Version.

~peter

Linux and The Indianapolis 500

Tue, 08 May 2007 00:22:39 -0700

The
idea to have the Open Source community sponsor a car in the
Indianapolis 500 put forth recently has more than just the Open Source
Press taking notice. Here is my take on it.

First a
disclaimer: I am in not in any way, shape or form involved with the
Tux500 campaign. I happen to know several of the people involved but
other than that I have no connection to it whatsoever. With that said I
am free to express any opinions I may have on the subject, which I plan
on doing right now..

It all started several weeks ago
when Bob Moore and Ken Starks made public the idea of sponsoring a car
in the Indianapolis 500. The idea being to have one of the cars say
"Linux" and/or have a big "Tux" logo on it. A very cool and very bold
idea. Having your name on one of the cars in the biggest motorsports
event on the planet does not come cheap. Here's the funny thing, its
not the amount of money but where its going to be spent that has gotten
underneath some peoples skin. Some like the NASCAR or Motorcycle
circuits more and others don't believe that people who watch any kind
of Motorsports are who the Open Source community should be advertising
too. Then there are those who just don't like anything and some, ok
one, who thinks its a scam of some kind.

Does anyone remember when Firefox had the two full page ad in the New York Times? At the time I was very involved in the Spread Firefox
campaign and I remember when Asa Dotzler and others proposed the idea
of raising money to put an ad in the New York Times and tell the world
about Firefox. Something like that had never been done before. Many
people immediately questioned why they had chosen the New York Times
instead of another publication. Others thought that we should make the
ad smaller and put it in several newspapers at once and still others
just didn't like it no matter what paper or publication was mentioned.
Sound familiar?

Well Asa stuck to his guns and took the
time to explain over and over again that putting the ad in the New York
Times, because of its national and international circulation would have
the greatest effect possible for the money raised. The majority of
people involved agreed and the donations came pouring in. So much money
was raised that instead of the original one page idea it became two
pages in size making certain that the ad could not be glanced over by
the reader. Also, having the names of the people who donated to the
campaign incorporated into the actual design of the ad was a stroke of
genius.

Now whether or not you like the idea of taking
out a full page in the New York Times or painting an Indy League Racing
Car with Linux logos is your own prerogative. Like it or not you have
to respect the fact that someone is trying to do something, anything to
get the word out and let the world know about how great Linux and Open
Source Software really is. I believe that taking action, any action is
better then inaction. The arguments over whether the money is better
well spent on something else or your preference of one newspaper or
racing league over another are counter productive to what is trying to
be achieved, especially the curmudgeons who don't like anything and
have to tell everyone about it. The arguments for not taking action
never change, no matter the source.

One of the things I
like about about Open Source is that it gives the individual the choice
to do what they want and nothing more. You can use the software and
walk away if you wish. You do not have to participate in the community
at all and no can make you. That kind of freedom makes people want
to participate and it is just one of the reasons that the Open Source
Community is as strong as it is. It is the voluntary bonds of common
interest we create that are the strongest and it is the voluntary, and
mostly volunteer Open Source Community that is one the strongest
communities of common interest on the planet, I challenge anyone to
refute this.

The Indianapolis 500 is the single largest
Motorsports event on Planet Earth. It is a one of a kind car race with
no equal inside or outside of the United States. There are race teams
whose only purpose is to attempt to qualify and run in that one race.
It is the only race that gets the attention and feeds the imagination
of people of all ages no matter where they are or what country they are
from. For an entire month people from all over the world watch, listen
and read about what is going on in Indianapolis. If you have ever seen
a car and know what a "race" is, then you have heard of the
Indianapolis 500. It is that full month of publicized qualifying,
testing and good old fashion "grandstanding" leading up to the actual
race that make it comparable to the World Cup in every way.

With
all the corporate entities refusing to help because they think that
having a car in the Indy 500 with a Linux logo on it is not enough to
make them want to help, it is up to us to make this happen. Its up to
us as a community to show the world what we are capable of. With Red
Hat not wanting to help, and Novell and Dell playing us against
Microsoft, what I have done in response is to contact all of the
vendors in our The Pre-Installed Linux Vendor Database and ask them for their help in sponsoring the Tux500 car.
I can only hope that some of them will like what they see and donate to
the cause. I have also been telling everyone I know about it as well. I
am only one person but I know I am not alone in my efforts. I am a part
of a worldwide community of people who believe in Free and Open Source
Software.

My personal goal in writing this article is
to inspire you to help out, to tell others and through your actions
show the world just how powerful this community is. Are we going to
raise the whole $350,000? probably not, but it does not mean that we
have failed if we don't. Are we going to be able to raise the minimum
$25,000 so that we have a Linux Logo on the car period? I hope so. That
goal is certainly within reach and if we do we will have done something
that has never been done before. We will have shown the world that a
community of people can come together to promote something that they
believe in so strongly that it got put on a car in the Indianapolis 500
for the whole world to see.

And just what is it that we
will get in return for our support? The ability to tell the world that
we were a part of putting a car in the Indy 500. We were a part of
making the world take notice of Linux. I don't know about you but that
is something I want to be a part of. It is something I am going to brag
about to any who will listen to me for a long time to come.

<a href="http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/85698/index.html">LXer Article</a>

Is the war over ?

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:19:05 -0700

This report was found at PCWELT (german)

Vorbei die Zeiten, in denen eine Browser-Version die nächste jagte und versuchte bei den Anwendern mit immer neuen Funktionen zu punkten. Vorbei also der Browser-Krieg. Diese Ansicht herrschte jedenfalls beim Treffen von Entwicklern von Mozilla, Microsoft, Opera und Google. Statt mit immer neuen, funktionsreicheren Browser-Version aufzutrumpfen, wolle man sich künftig darauf zu konzentrieren, die Browser in den Gebieten zu verbessern, die notwendig sind, damit Browser eine Plattform für immer leistungsfähigere Web-Applikationen werden. ...weiter ...

translated by google:

Past the times, in which a Browser version hunted the next and tried with the users with always new functions to score. Past thus the Browser war. This opinion prevailed anyhow when meeting developers of Mozilla, Microsoft, Opera and Google. Instead of playing trumps with always new, function-richer Browser version one to concentrate wants the Browser in the areas to improve, which are necessary in the future on it, so that Browser become a platform ever more efficient Web applications. ... more ..

Firefox Companion for eBay (Alpha Testing) launched

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:45:29 -0700

I Apologize if this news has already been mentioned before on this website

According to www.pocket-lint.co.uk, Mozilla is looking for eBay customers to test a new plug-in for Firefox that says it will help create a faster, safer online auction experience. The Plug in is still in Alpha stage for the time being, but when it is fully finished, it will be able to track people's auctions (both buying and selling).

If eBay will advertise the finished extension on the main page of their site, imagine how may Firefox downloads will there be :-).

Source:

http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk

The country links to sign up for testing are shown below:

United States:

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/add-ons/ebay/

United Kingdom:

http://en-gb.www.mozilla.com/en-GB/add-ons/ebay/

France:

http://fr.www.mozilla.com/fr/add-ons/ebay/

Germany:

http://de.www.mozilla.com/de/add-ons/ebay/

With Special thanks to GraphicsGuru.com (Jamey) for creating the advert.

“Microsoft Purchases Google”

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:32:09 -0700

Source: AP News Wire

The shot heard around the Internet came when the Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced today that they will be purchasing Google (GOOG) for $1.5 billion dollars. Google CEO Dr. Eric E. Schmidt said “We find it in the best interest of consumers for services to come from one central source rather than having them have to use many different services. This is not an endeavor to contribute to a monopolistic company, it is to unite two outstanding companies so that they can combine their technologies which will benefit consumers.”

Stocks for Google (currently at 458.16 per share) are expected to soar Monday morning at the start of trading.

It's no secret that the Mozilla Foundation has had a good relationship with Google over the past few years, but now one must wonder what will happen when Google shifts its resources to power the advance of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7.

Read the full story

PCW Award for Excellence 2006 Firefox wins Best Software

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:20:47 -0800

In the latests issue of Personal Computer World (March 2007) Firefox 2 is named as winner of the Best Software 2006 in the Editorial Awards!

An earlier review of Firefox 2 was also very positive.

Kim Harding

What is she had used Firefox?

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:28:07 -0800

I just read this news and also in dutch

Of course I agree with the fact that it was wrong, and I will not comment on the sentence due to relevance on this site.

But the first thing that came in my mind is:

-Yep, did not have Firefox installed
- Yep filters do not work
- Yep, schools should install Firefox. IT personnel should know better.

Thus, we need more school projects!

(not to protect the teachers, but the students in this case!)

Marco

Does Yahoo get caught in the act?

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:31:56 -0800

A lot of people were scratching their heads when they saw that Google and Yahoo were promoting IE7.

Now there may be some evidence that Yahoo is really sticking it to people. This is just a piece of the article that explains things, the rest of the article is good reading.

Andy Beal, MarketingPilgrim.com

Exclusive- Yahoo Using Dirty Tactics to Switch Google & Firefox Users?

Over email, Jarrod Hunt of Text Link Brokers explained how a recent upgrade to Yahoo Messenger includes an innocuous “auto-update” option. When the user gives Yahoo permission to “update” – what they think is just Yahoo Messenger – the updater downloads IE 7 (which we already know to be buggy) and then proceeds to hijack many browser preferences – including search engine settings.

The updater’s first sneaky switch is to associate all web links to IE 7 instead of the user’s default browser – in Jarrod’s case all links started opening in IE 7 instead of Firefox. The next step in the process is an ambiguous error message saying your search settings have been changed and would you like to either “fix settings” or “allow change”. Thinking you are about to have your browser settings switched away from your default; most users – like Jarrod - will click “fix settings”. Upon doing so, they’ll find their homepage is now switched to Yahoo as the default!
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