Loading ...For those times when you can’t or just don’t want to read a web page but yet want to ensure you will get back to it later, look no further than Taboo.
Press the plus button it adds to the toolbar to save a thumbnail of the current page and have it added to your Taboo collection. From there, it is easily accessible from a second toolbar button that displays your saved pages, and also filter entering a few characters.
For October’s desktop wallpaper, Foxkeh is featured skydving in a colorful parachute.
Available in a variety of sizes, with or without October’s calendar. Enjoy!
Mozilla Marketing has launched its latest contest open to all people and start-ups interested in helping Mozilla improve its current Firefox retention rate (25%), that is, the number of people who keep using it after downloading and installing it.
The contest will roll out in two phases. For the first one, due on October 24, participants must provide a 2-page executive summary of their project that should stay within a $10,000 budget. Mozilla will choose which proposals advance to the next phase, and participants will have until December 5 to submit detailed descriptions that will be presented to the community for final voting.
The winner will be announced on December 19, and will have the opportunity to execute and lead his project and get a $3000 prize.
For complete details, check Impact Mozilla.
Want to spice up that funny or interesting picture in the web you just found before sharing it? Great, because Kyoote was created just for that.
Install it, right click on any image, enter some text at the top, center or bottom, align it, and there you go. The image is updated with the text, ready for you to save it and share.
It’s a very first attempt by its developer, Cesar Oliveira, of Prism fame, so you can’t set the font type, size or color, which is pretty much all I’d like to see added, to keep it simple.
Kyoote is available at Mozilla Add-ons but you will need an account as it is still marked as experimental.
Ian Hayward, co-founder of Glaxstar (of Glubble fame) has announced the launch of XUL School an online education program for developers and enthusiasts interested in learning Firefox add-ons development at a professional level.
A 95-page tutorial e-book (in PDF format, $19), aimed to newbies and experienced developers alike, teaches “how to write industrial strength Add-on code while ensuring you remain a good citizen to the Firefox Add-on developer community”.
XUL School will also offer an e-course consisiting of eight exercises sold separately each including e-mail tutoring by a Glaxstar engineer. Students who successfully complete the eight courses, will attain XUL School certification. Pricing has not been set yet.
XUL School is coming next October, but interested community members can sign up for the first available course slots.
Glaxstar’s initiative is a great opportunity for developers eager to learn Mozilla technologies and prefer a fast track, all-in-one-place approach.
As announced, and earlier than expected, a quick Firefox update has been released to fix a single bug that prevented some users accessing their saved passwords.
As usual, you should be prompted to updated in the next 48 hours, or you can select Check for Updates… in the Help menu for immediate service.
Firefox 3.1 may well be remembered as the “tab release”, as tabbed browsing will be the most noticeable updated area users will face when it comes out in final form.
The latest Firefox 3.1 nightly (code named Shiretoko) features a new tab button in the tab bar, making the addition of a tab fully discoverable for the first time as it is now part of the primary UI.
A previous change, added a few days ago, made the tab bar always visible by default which allows the new tab button to be present at all times. In the past, the tab bar was hidden when there was only one page opened. A preference in Options/Tabs allowed to make it visible at all times.
The old New Tab button which was present in the Customize Toolbar dialog and could be added to the toolbars is gone at this time.
Yet another change in behavior now makes the current window go away when its last tab is closed. There is already a number of users complaining about this behavior and I also at first thought it would be annoying, but I still haven’t been in the situation of closing all tabs, yet wanting to keep Firefox open.
A bug, found in yesterday’s Firefox 3.0.2 update, that prevents access to saved passwords that include international characters either in the web address the password is saved for, the login, or the password itself, has prompted planning for a quick Firefox update.
Mike Beltzner, Firefox lead, explains in a post to the mozilla.dev.planning group:
The symptom is that users who have password data stores with non-ASCII data saved as something other than UTF-8 (more common for people who have saved passwords on IDN domains or non en-US domains) will not be able to access their saved passwords or create any new saved passwords. There is no permanent dataloss, the saved data is just inaccessible. While this doesn’t affect all Firefox users, it is a significant regression and has triggered a fast-release Firefox 3.0.3 which will contain a single fix for this issue.
A fix is ready, and as soons as QA gives the go ahead, it will be available as Firefox 3.0.3 for users to update, most likely, some time next week.
The Mozilla Calendar team has released version 0.9 of Sunbird, and its Thunderbird extension version, Lightning, which is to be integrated with currently in development Thunderbird 3.
In fact, according to the release notes, this should be the last Lightning version to support Thunderbird 2.0, as they intend to focus on integration with Thunderbird 3 on next iterations.
Among the hundreds of bug fixes, Sunbird and Lightning 0.9 fixes and improvements include:
- Events spanning days now have a visual indicator indicating them as connected events
- When reloading a remote calendar a progress indicator is now shown
- The so-called “minimonth” (small calendar month in the upper left) has been given a visual overhaul
- The calendar views (day, week, multiweek, month) have been given a visual overhaul
- The today pane can now be displayed in calendar mode and task mode as well [Lightning-only]
- CalDAV support and interoperability with various CalDAV servers has been improved
- iMip/iTip support (support for email invitations) has been greatly improved [Lightning-only]
- The application stability and memory consumption has been greatly improved
- Lightning 0.9 is intended to be the last release for the Thunderbird 2 series. For the future we are planning to integrate Lightning fully into the upcoming Thunderbird 3 release [Lightning-only]
- Icelandic, Romanian and Traditional Chinese were added as new languages. Unfortunately no builds in Macedonian or Turkish are available for 0.9
Lightning and Sunbird are for Windows (XP and later), Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris and can be downloaded from the Lightning and Sunbird project pages respectively.
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.0.2, the second update to latest major Firefox release.
As usual, it comes with a number of stability fixes, and patches for five security vulnerabilites, two of them critical.
There are two new locales Sinhala and Slovene, raising to 48 the number of available Firefox locales, with eight more in beta status.
Also, this update bundles Gmail as a web mail provider, so you can use it to compose emails when clicking on mailto: links or for sharing web pages selecting File/Send Link… from the main menu. To use it, open the Options window (or Preferences on Linux and Mac), switch to the Applications page, look for mailto: in the Content Type column, and select Gmail.
To update, select Check for Updates… in the Help menu, or wait for the automatic prompt in the next 48 hours.
More details in Firefox 3.0.2 release notes.
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