Firefox Mobile (codename Fennec) development builds will now sport its own cool logo based on the plain globe icon of unbranded Firefox builds with a large fennec fox head overlaid. A fennec fox is a small large-eared Saharian fox and, according to te Wikipedia, the only fox species that can be kept as a pet though not domesticated.
Duong Thanh An, has just released Pencil, a simple and efficient open source tool to create user interface prototypes with native Windows and Linux GTK widgets.
Using Pencil is pretty straight forward. You start with a new document and just start adding widgetsfrom the toolbar to the canvas. It includes a variety of basic elements like windows, menus, tables, progress bars, checkboxes, buttons, radio buttons, etc. as well as basic annotation tools like text, images, and arrows, to add comments.
You can also add images but be aware that by default Pencil will just link to the file instead of embedding the image data in the document, so if you delete the source it will be gone from the prototype as well. You can embed the actual image by pasting it but Duong warns thatit may affect performance.
Guinness has confirmed to Mozilla that Firefox 3 effectively set a new world record for most downloaded software in a single day on June 17, its release date (GMT-7, Mozilla HQ time).
The Official Mozilla Blog mentions 8,002,530 people downloading Firefox 3, but I guess it must be a typo since the record is about number of downloads which can’t be easily translated to number of people.
Anyway, the record has been set and Guinness will present the World Record certificate next week in London.
Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.15, a security update for the Firefox 2 that fixes 12 security vulnerabilities, four of them labeled critical by Mozilla.
Updates should be pushed in the next 24 hours but if you want it right now, select Check for Updates… in Firefox’s Help menu. If you need the full Firefox 2 download, check Mozilla’s old versions page.
Remember that Firefox 3 is the current version and according to Mozilla support policies, the Firefox 2 branch will get updates until around mid-December, six months after the current version release.
Mozilla Japan opens the month with a new Foxkeh calendar featuring the flaming mascot snorkeling among small fish. I guess whether Foxkeh’s tail remains lit or not under water will remain a mystery.
You can get this desktop wallpaper available in a variety of resolutions, with or without calendars from Foxkeh’s blog.
Firefox PDF plugin for Mac OS X is a new extension developed by colesbury that will let you view PDFs directly inside Firefox without the need of launching Preview or any other PDF viewer.
The extension is based on Apple’s PDFKit program interface and includes options to zoom in, out, autoadjust and view several pages at a time, but no thumbnails so far. A very handy tool to add to your extension belt.
Firefox PDF Plugin is not yet available on Mozilla Add-ons but you can install it from its Google Code web site.
Via Fredericiana.
What do you want to see available next at the Mozilla Store? A $10 Firefox-themed laptop skin? A $15 Mozilla themed Rubik’s cube featuring the Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Camino and other logos? What about a $17 Firefox logo frisbee? Or an ultra-cool $35 flash drive featuring the Firefox 3 robot?
I’m all for the Rubik’s cube but hope the robot gets one of the faces. $35 for a 1GB flash drive seems steep even for a Firefox 3 robot flash drive. Unless there is a 4GB Corsair Survivor under the hood.
Head over now to the latest Mozilla Store poll and get what you want. It only runs until tomorrow June 24 11:59pm PST.
In case you haven’t noticed, the Firefox 3 T-shirt is already available for chicos y chicas.
Yesterday’s popular web comic UserFriendly.org featured the now famous cake sent by Microsoft to Mozilla to celebrate the Firefox 3 launch.
Today, Illiad is back on it with a reference to Firefox 3 download record.
Check UserFriendly.org for more smiles and better resolution images.
Via Al Billings’blog.
Firefox 3 introduces real full screen mode where unlike Firefox 2 where the location bar and tab bar remained visible at all times, now they both automatically hide below the top edge of the screen.
If for some reason you prefer to see the location and tab bars, you can customize Firefox:
Lucky me, the kind people of Nobox, the design firm behind some of Firefox related art including the robot series, will be hosting a Firefox 3 party this Saturday, June 21 at Telemundo studios in Roosevelt Ave., San Juan.
Looking forward to meet a lot of local Firefox fans there and share ideas for promoting Firefox locally.
El sábado a las 8 en Telemundo!
Look for a party near you at Mozilla Party Central.
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