Firefox 1.0-RC1 Released
MozillaZine reports that Firefox 1.0-RC1 has been released to the world.
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Firefox aims for 10 percent of Web surfers
Bart Decrem, marketing contact for the Mozilla Foundation, told ZDNet UK on Friday that he expects the browser's market share to reach 10 percent by the end of 2005.
The Kiwi behind Firefox
Ben Goodger is the lead engineer for the open-source browser Firefox, which has been gaining in popularity in a market overwhelmingly dominated by Microsoft. He talks about Firefox's history, and how he sees it competing with Longhorn in this interview.
Mozilla finally KDEfied
KDE developer Zack Rusin announced in his blog he just committed the QT Mozilla code. To start testing it, all you need to do is checkout mozilla, configure with --enable-default-toolkit=qt, and launch make.
Why you should switch to Firefox
This story lists a number of problems with IE and suggests to switch to Firefox. Elsewhere, Neowin interviews a member of the Firefox team.
Review: Firefox Preview Release
"Firefox just had its preview release last week and already has been downloaded more than a million times. I reviewed the new version, and found Firefox's simple interface gets you the information you want without distracting you with options." Read the review at NewsForge.
Firefox Preview Hits a Home Run
Some say the Browser Wars are over. They couldn't be more wrong. Microsoft won Round One, and Round Two is just beginning, with the impending release of Firefox 1.0. Who'll be the ultimate victor? Only time will tell. But ExtremeTech thinks that Firefox has a decent shot at taking the crown... especially since Microsoft seems to have taken its eye off the browser ball.
A Review of Firefox for Newbies
A while ago there was an article Mozilla's web site mentioning that they are switching their browser component to a new one (at the time called Phoenix). It was a simple and fast browser so I started using it instead of Mozilla. Mozilla Firefox uses the same engine as Mozilla. The difference is in the user interface as well as some features.
Mozilla released FireFox 1.0 preview
Finally, the much anticipated version 1.0 of Firefox are out on its first preview. Read more from here and proceed to download. Also, new versions of Mozilla suite, Thunderbird were posted. Here's another article too: How to migrate from Ximian Evolution to Mozilla Thunderbird.
aKademy Hackers Port Gecko to Qt/KDE
KDE developers have ported the Gecko layout engine of Mozilla to Qt/KDE, in order to provide a more powerful, but KDE-friendly, alternative to Konqueror.
Review of Mozilla’s Sunbird Stand-Alone Calendar Application
Mozilla Sunbird is the latest stand-alone application from the Mozilla foundation that follows in the footsteps of now revered browser Firefox and email client Thunderbird. OSDir reviews their first public release, version 0.2.
New Features in the Upcoming Firefox 1.0
Firefox 1.0 has several new features that will greatly improve the user experience. Marcus wrote about three of them here. Our take: We hope they will support the rdf+xml type too (only rss+xml works atm).
Mozilla Releases Mozilla Sunbird 0.2a
Along with the new Mozilla-Japan initiative and the release of Mozilla 1.8a3 (vote for it at GnomeFiles), the Mozilla team released Mozilla Sunbird 0.2a, a stand-alone calendaring application similar to iCal. These builds are the first to feature a new default theme, a new logo and the customizable toolbar functionality. Note that Sunbird is still an experimental technology preview that contain bugs.
Netscape 7.2 Released
AOL has released Netscape 7.2, unfortunately, linked to GTK+ 1.2.x instead of 2.x under Linux.
One Week with Firefox, its Extensions and Opera
I have to admit that I am an Opera fan; I started using it when a friend of mine came with version 6.0 and installed it to me. My first impression was not very good because the screen was crowded with toolbars, icons and things. But I spent a few minutes examining each one and removing all; I like the screen clean, not filled with toolbars and things that waste screen space, after all, 1024 x 768 is not enough.
Camino 0.8 Released; Mozilla SunBird Looks for a New Theme
Camino is a web browser optimized for Mac OS X with a Cocoa user interface, and powerful Gecko layout engine. Version 0.8 was released today. Elsewhere, the developers of Mozilla Sunbird, the standalone version of Mozilla Calendar, are looking for a new default theme and are asking the community to build a new one.
Mozilla 1.7 Released
Arstechnica Sits Down with Mozilla.org’s Scott Collins
Arstechnica has a interview up with Mozilla's Scott Collins. The interview can be found here.
Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Released
Is the Netscape Browser Being Reborn or Just Stabilized?
AOL is planning to release an updated Netscape Navigator as early as June, but whether one of the Web's original browsers will make a comeback remains uncertain.