Technology,Security,Software Review
On November 19,2008 Mozilla add-on website hits the mark of one billion downloads. According the Mozilla the add-on download count is only from the addons.mozilla.org but some of the add-on are also hosted some were else. This is a real good story for Mozilla add-on because last day Mozilla has launched the Fashion Your Firefox a set of Mozilla Firefox add-on.
Mozilla has introduced an application that will help users to accelerate the customization for Firefox. it offers different sets of add-on, based on that selected add-on you can speed up your customization for Firefox. Firefox has more than 5000 of add-on that are available free for users. Firefox add-on are little extras that allow you to add a personal touch to your browser and make more familiar. users can select the favorites from the categories available on Web.By these add-on you will gain performance improvements of several seconds when loading pages. If you don’t already have Firefox, you may download from the online application that provides different nine sets of Firefox extensions whereas each set contains some add-on from their you can directly download according to your requirement.
On 13 October, 2008 Mozilla Lab announced that they will form a new group that will focus on research and development of developer tools for Open Web. The new group will create Web development tools that will help developers increase productivity, create a better user experience, and most importantly, promote the use of open standards. Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, co-founders of Ajaxian, the Ajax Experience, and long-time supporters of the open Web, have joined Moziila full-time to lead this newly formed Developer Tools Lab.
We believe that there’s tremendous opportunity for innovation in tools that increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experiences, and promote the use of open standards. Everything is on the table, from services to software, and we’re looking forward to working with Web developers from around the world to create, experiment and play with new ideas.
Source : Developer Tools and the Open Web
Firefox the only big threat to Microsoft Internet Explore is now extended it’s deal with Google till 2011. This means that Google will be the default search provider for Mozilla Firefox browser. Users after installing the Firefox browser can change the default search provider , means user can choose any search provider but most of time users won’t change the default search provider.
This deal left one question : Google says Microsoft can’t use Live search as a default search provider for Internet Explorer but Google is paying a good amount of money to Mozilla for having Google as their default search provider. In both the cases users can easily change the search provider.?
Last year, Baker said that she would not hesitate to walk away from the lucrative partnership if that was what was necessary to remain independent. Baker said in an interview with Computerworld in October 2007
We’ve spent a lot of time and energy making sure that Google understands that it cannot turn us into an arm of Google," . "If the protection of [our independence] would come into conflict with Google, or any of our search partners, we would opt for the community who built Firefox and love Firefox.
A new study released by Net Applications shows that Microsoft Internet Explorer loosing it’s market shares. Last year internet Explorer has approximately 79% browser market share and after one year it only has 73% of browser market share. Mozilla’s Firefox is Internet Explorer’s main competitor. The web browser now holds 19 percent of the market, and is rapidly expanding the number of people that are using it. Over the last year, Firefox’s market share raised more than 4 percent, from the 14.65 percent it owned last summer. The browser’s latest version acquired 1 percent of the global market during the first day of its release.
The bad news for Mozilla is that the main people who downloaded Firefox 3 where users upgrading from Firefox 2. Even though the company’s latest version of the browser has managed to get about 4 percent of the web browser market, only less than 1 percent have been people that previously used other companies’ products.
Apple also hit the jackpot with Safari, increasing the number of people that use it from 4.71 percent last year, to 6.31 as of this month. The reason for this seems to be the increased popularity of the company’s products, and the fact that each Apple computer comes with Safari
Browser Market Share July 2007
Browser Market Share June 2008
Source : Market Share and efluxmedia
Technorati Tags: Internet Explorer,Firefox
Pencil A Firefox 3.0 add-on turn your web browser into a complete drawing platform. Pencil installs rich set of tools in browser enabling users to save, load and display external canvas, together with a palette of shapes
The Pencil Project’s unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
Top features:
Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping
Multi-page document with background page
On-screen text editing with rich-text supports
PNG rasterizing
Undo/redo supports
Installing user-defined stencils
Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating…
Cross-platforms
Adding external objects
Windows Update requires ActiveX to be installed on your browser so that you can download and install windows update. Now Firefox users can also download and install windows update without switching browser. Firefox add-on called IE Tab which will allow you to run Windows Update or other Web sites that are designed primarily for Internet Explorer and don’t run properly under Firefox. IE tab is just like running Internet Explorer as your browser. IE vulnerabilities also come with IE Firefox Add-on.
Hello Friends, This week also I come with five very good Firefox extensions. They are Password Exporter, Rotate Image,Copy Links, Bookmarks Previews and Tab URL Copier. Let’s have a look on each of the Firefox Extension.
Copy Links : It’s very easy to copy the entire web page, but what about if you want to copy all the URL in that page. Copy Link is solution for you. Copy Link is free Firefox extension that will copy all the URL’s on any particular web page. Just right click on any part of the page, get into the Copy Links menu, and select Copy All Links. By doing so, all the links that are display will be automatically copied to your clipboard, and ready to be pasted into an email, document, or anywhere you want to.
Window Snyder, the Mozilla security chief warned yesterday, that the language pack for Firefox 2.0 is infected with Trojan horse.Most worse thing about this plugin is that, it is available on Mozilla addons website, from where Mozilla Firefox users download extensions, themes and useful stuff for their Firefox browser.Window Snyder explained that the Trojan horse was a result of a malicious code injection which could load remote content and drop the infections on the affected system.The Firefox plug-in has already been removed from the Mozilla Add-on page, but users who want to download the Vietnamese language pack have to wait a few days until a clean version of the file is re-published.
Hello Friends, This week also I come with four very good Firefox extensions. They are Next Tab,Paste Email Plus,Auto Context and GTD Inbox. Let’s have a look on each of the Firefox Extension.
GTD Inbox:GTDInbox (formerly GTDGmail) transforms Gmail into a powerhouse of productivity and manageability. It gives you a better inbox.
Faster daily use of Gmail: Do your most common functions within one or two intuitive clicks using a new popup command box that lets you preview, archive, delete or modify labels on your emails.
Turn Emails into Tasks: Mark emails as actions to be completed and give them a priority. Process actions by project, context or person.
Browse Gmail as a Personal Information Database: Categories actions, communication and resources (e.g. files, meeting plans, invoices) into meaningful clusters - such as by project, context or contact - for easier information discovery and retrieval later.
Give Gmail New Features: Preview messages, pre-label messages before you send them, multi-task by easily opening new windows, and more.
