MozillaNews.orgMozillaNews!Firefox nears 50 Million DLs, Prizes Offered- April 26, 2005 Firefox hit 49,000,000 downloads last night. Today, as we approach 50,000,000, SpreadFirefox is offering prizes for photographic proof of your most amazing spectacles to celebrate. To quote: 'We have a handful of unique prizes that you won't find anywhere else, and we're asking you to do one simple thing to claim one: impress us. As we drive toward 50 million downloads, do something so cool, so unusual and so spectacular to spread Firefox that we can't help but scurry around the Mozilla...http://mozillanews.org/?article=9a56fffe72d54e46c60167d60eb88ceb Opera 8 Reaches 1,000,000 Downloads, CEO Prepares to Swim- April 25, 2005 When Opera 8 released on April 21, Opera's CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner announced he'd swim from Norway to America, with only one layover in Iceland for a cup of his mom's hot chocolate. Well, they did it. One million, fifty-thousand downloads later, he jumped into the freezing waters off of Oslo. The more healthy competition there is for Microsoft's Internet Explorer the better for web users everywhere, and we wish Jon the best of luck swimming across the unforgivingly cold North Atlantic. If...http://mozillanews.org/?article=b88e98238700a30b859026500322a127 IE7 to get PNG Alpha support, CSS bug fixes- April 24, 2005 The people have spoken, and the Evil Empire has listened! In the IEBlog, the good men and women of the IE crew have heard the collective voices of web developers screaming for PNG alpha transparency support, and it will be included in IE7's first beta release. IE users will finally see the graphics at MozillaNews.org as they're meant to be seen. ;) Also coming is numerous CSS bug fixes "so that web developers have a consistent set of functionality on which they can rely." Actually,...http://mozillanews.org/?article=3fd0ceb3f19a6de2aea0fac7074f91c0 Gecko 1.9 to see GFX Engine Overhaul- April 22, 2005 Robert O'Callahan has posted what he calls a "Glimpse Of The Future". And from the post, that's exactly what it is. "One of the big initiatives in 1.9 will be an overhaul of our graphics infrastructure. We're planning to rip out a lot of our existing graphics code and base everything on Cairo. This will give us modern 2D graphics capabilities (such as filling, stroking and clipping to paths, general affine transforms, and ubiquitious support for alpha transparency) and also, via Glitz,...http://mozillanews.org/?article=663e1a2e03ccc3b2d8df6be208a912a4 InfoWeek's Fred Langa Addresses 'The Pros And Cons Of Firefox'- April 19, 2005 Former Windows Magazine editor Fred Langa in his weekly "Langa Letter" column for InformationWeek discusses The Pros and Cons of Firefox. The article has what seems to be Fred's stock in trade, good information mixed in with bad information. In the article below, I'll make some observations and responses to Fred's article. Click the "Read More" link for the full article.http://mozillanews.org/?article=c7749fc3aa81a703e8fceea6228e87f8 Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite 1.7.7 Released- April 16, 2005 Incremental updates to Firefox and the Mozilla Suite have gone gold and are released. Below is our spiffy Download Matrix™ for links to the Suite and Firefox. Firefox has several security updates and an improved Update process. The Suite has a few security updates as well. Read the Release Notes for full details. Downloads Firefox Release Notes Suite Release Notes Windows Installer (4.6 MB) Full Installer (11 MB) Stub Installer (221 KB) Zipped Build (11 MB) Mac.http://mozillanews.org/?article=cbc9d75f35ea5a1ab0cfa5b435a31cf4 Mike Connor Under Contract to Mozilla Foundation- April 16, 2005 Mike Connor let loose the news in this blog post that he's now working on Firefox full time under a contract with the Mozilla Foundation. On a related note, today I start working full-time on Firefox, working under a contract with the Mozilla Foundation. So all of those Ill get to it around mid-April comments really were accurate. I really did mean Ill get to it around mid-April which is now. Expect the bugspam to start rsn, I need to catch up on bugmail first (the last week sucked). Great...http://mozillanews.org/?article=71eca05a0de829890869623d3b61f7ec Round Two looks to launch enhanced Firefox- April 12, 2005 Everyone's favorite redundantly redundant tech news site News.com.com22 has a new article up entitled Start-up wants to improve on Firefox. Round Two, formerly Mozsource (formerly E-Flo), is looking to launch a suite of Firefox enhancements sometime in the next month or so. I think it's a sign that you've arrived when businesses spring up to support your OSS project, and this proves that Firefox is definitely a force to contend with. Updated: Removed references to Blake Ross. Blake Ross is...http://mozillanews.org/?article=d688cc9ed8f620a1d75acef2b2e314e0 48 Hours of Bugday- April 4, 2005 Robin Monks wrote in to remind us: Mozilla's recently revived weekly Bugday will be expanded this week due to the planned auto-resolve of unconfirmed bugs. Mozilla bugday will be 48hrs this week (from the normal 24hrs) and will start Tuesday, April 5th at 2PM Atlantic. Everyone is welcome! That's right; It's twice the Bugday fun this week with a double helping of triaging! For those of you not in New Brunswick (Canada, not New Jersey), that's 1PM EST, 10AM PST, your time may vary.http://mozillanews.org/?article=0eb7daccb0e62cf35eb1f9780fcf1e44 April Fools, folks!- April 2, 2005 Ok ok, we lied. Google is not buying the Mozilla Foundation. It's an April Fools Day joke. Have a great spring, everyone.http://mozillanews.org/?article=ae22f5fd41441a5f44983b90a7502b60 |