Tag Archives: Mozilla

French tax authorities moving 130000 PCs to Thunderbird

According to OSOR.EU, All 130,000 desktop PCs at the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGPF) in Paris are to be switched to using the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email client, its Lightning calendar and the open source groupware application OBM. … Continue reading

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Mozilla Weave – Nothing happens

I installed Mozilla Weave in Firefox 3.5.x couple of weeks back (Click here to see what Weave is). I created an account and signed in. When I click on the Sync Now option, I get a pop up window saying … Continue reading

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Mozilla Firefox 3.5 released

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5 today. Here are some of the new features in Firefox 3.5, according to Mozilla: Performance. Firefox 3.5 includes the powerful new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which delivers unprecedented performance with today’s complex Web applications. Firefox 3.5 … Continue reading

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McAfee sucks with their Siteadvisor Linux support

SiteAdvisor is a very good addon for Firefox that scans the Google search results and also the sites you visit for rogue sites. I have been using this addon for a long time. This addon used to be part of … Continue reading

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Firefox 3.5 beta 4 available

Mozilla team has released the 4th beta version for Firefox 3.5 (formerly Firefox 3.1). According the Mozilla developer center, here are the list of features that are new or changed in beta4. Improved tools for controlling your private data, including … Continue reading

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Cognitive Shield – New tabs in Firefox

Mozilla team has been working on how to make a new tab page more usable. You get a blank new tab page currently. Mozilla wants to change that and make it more useful. Google Chrome shows you thumbnails of most … Continue reading

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Fashion your Firefox

Fashion Your Firefox is part of the Mozilla addon site, but it tries to simplify scrolling through the addons by picking popular addons and dividing them by category. Though it doesn’t have all the addons and it might miss some … Continue reading

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Mozilla Lightning and Sunbird 0.9 released

Mozilla calendar team has released version 0.9 of Lightning and Sunbird. This brings the calendar project close to their 1.0 release. Here are some changes/new functionalities included in 0.9. Lightning 0.9 is intended to be the last release for the … Continue reading

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Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 released

Mozilla has released their 2nd alpha of Firefox 3.1. This version includes the following changes: Support for the HTML 5 video element. The new functionality of CTRL + T which shows previews of 3 recently used tab, now includes an … Continue reading

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Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 2 released

Mozilla Messaging team has released Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 2 code named Shredder. Shredder Alpha 2 is a developer preview release that is being built on top of the next generation of Mozilla’s layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Shredder Alpha 2 is … Continue reading

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