MozillaNews.orgMozillaNews!New York Times Ad Fuel Firefox Downloads- December 20, 2004 Asa notes in his blog that Firefox has gained one million downloads less than four days after the two-page advertisement on New York Times. Firefox downloads now totals 12 millions. (See spreadfirefox.com for important update.) In addition, NY Times published an article on Firefox yesterday (December 19). The author Randall Stross writes: With Firefox, open-source software moves from back-office obscurity to your home, and to your parents', too. (Your children in college are already using...http://mozillanews.org/?article=7b4a24fee48656718582c0224470639c Mozilla 1.7.5 is released- December 18, 2004 Mozilla 1.7.5 has been released. This release marks the Gecko sync between Firefox 1.0 and Mozilla 1.7.x. There is very little else new in this release except NPRuntime support, and undetectable document.all support have been added. Check out the release notes to see any other minor changes. FTP Download Directoryhttp://mozillanews.org/?article=942b1eaa26cbbc4d90f24f650480e48e Mozilla Community Put Two-Page Ad on New York Times- December 16, 2004 The Mozilla Foundation has just announced in a press release that it has put a two-page Firefox advertisement on the December 16th edition of New York Times. The newspaper announcement celebrates 10 million downloads of Firefox 1.0, reached in a little over one month after the release. The advertisement features a full-page, black and white Firefox logo made out of a long list of 10,000 names. The page asks Are you fed up with your web browser. The second page features three quotes from users...http://mozillanews.org/?article=c1fdc424e15c4dc56a43ebb29ba08efa Multiple-Browser Frame Injection Vulnerabilities (and Other Security Updates)- December 8, 2004 Secunia has discovered frame injection vulnerabilities affecting MozillaFirefox, Konqueror, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Netscape. The vulnerabilities allow a site to cause a phishing (spoofing) attack by replacing the content of another site's pop-up (if the name of the pop-up is known). They appear to be variations of the multiple-browser frame injection problems (patched) reported this July. More information and workaround in the full article.http://mozillanews.org/?article=9a4b5391f2e21d75a2c3887b8f024925 Firefox Gets Desktop Search Support (and it's not Google)- December 7, 2004 Today, Copernic released Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) 1.2 (see press release), a search tool that supports Mozilla Firefox history and bookmarks indexing. This makes CDS the first desktop search tool to fully support Firefox. Chris Hofmann is quoted saying "We are happy to see that Copernic is providing support for Firefox. We are close to 10 million downloads in almost a month since the release in November, and developers are taking notice."http://mozillanews.org/?article=4260f701637368d01bb0040f688c94f4 Help Wanted for Thunderbird Help- December 7, 2004 Thunderbird 1.0 has been released yesterday. Unfortunately, it doesn't come with built-in Help (unlike Firefox 1.0 and even Nvu 0.6), and Thunderbird Help is one of very few online Thunderbird resources available. This is because not enough volunteers are helping with Thunderbird documentation. If you have time, please help Jeff Walden (Help Viewer project lead) out with filing and fixing documentation bugs. As a side news, Camino 0.8.2 was also released yesterday (see the release notes).http://mozillanews.org/?article=47132e06bfe23445d9360f3db2ca87b1 Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 Getting Started Guide- December 7, 2004 Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 has been released. This mail and newsgroups client has many features that make using e-mail safe and easy, such as adaptive junk mail filter, plain-text mail view, message grouping, saved search folders (a.k.a. virtual folders), and customizable views. This article guides you through the process of migrating from Netscape, Mozilla, Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, Eudora, or another mail client. What&8217;s New for Mozilla and Netscape Users New in Mozilla...http://mozillanews.org/?article=659abdbbbfaace7decb6db1248153320 Netscape DevEdge Back Online- December 4, 2004 After being offline for about fifty days, Netscape DevEdge is back online (as of today at noon, Mozilla time). Mitchell Baker, thanks!http://mozillanews.org/?article=1ca35217f706de0981f9a6c6c084729c Full-Page Firefox Ad in German Newspaper- December 3, 2004 Tristan Nitot wrote in his blog that the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" daily (one of largest German newspaper) today published a full-page advertisement on Firefox. The ad campaign is the German version of the Mozilla Foundation's New York Times ad campaign. The ad reads (English translation by Axel): FIRE! Hundreds of programmers jointly developed a revolutionary internet browser. They volunteer their time and donate it to the whole world. Therefore, 2403 individuals and...http://mozillanews.org/?article=6dcb90a92a3960d9a61784382559968a Nvu 0.6 (1.0 beta) released- December 2, 2004 Nvu, the standalone composer, has released to version 0.60 on November 26, 2004. This release is still based on Mozilla 1.7.1, however the rulers and the site manager have been rewritten due to bugs in the previous versions. The site manager now displays the default icon in Windows and Linux (KDE only for now), and it can now be used to edit multiple sites simultaneously. Image dragging into the Nvu window now displays the image in Linux. It also includes R.J.Keller and KSS's online Help. There.http://mozillanews.org/?article=b1472866a901836bd98939bbf6b73408 |