Pieces keep fitting in for the Firefox 4 theme refresh. Recent development nightlies now feature the planned stop-reload-go button next to the location bar. When the page is loaded, it becomes a reload button. A stop button while loading. And , if you edit the web address, you get the go button. While it should [...]

Mozilla has released a new update for Firefox 4 beta. This time, the main enhancements are native support for Sync, Mozilla’s online synchronization service, and Panorama, the new name for the tab organizing feature formerly known as TabCandy. Here is a video introducing Sync: And here is another for Panorama: Note that this update doesn’t [...]

The latest Firefox 4 nightly builds (Minefield) feature a new two columns menu that gathers the most frequently used actions to help users perform their browsing faster. Introduced in previous Firefox 4 betas as a single column menu, this iteration divides menu items into actions like save, edit, send, print and exit in the first [...]

As expected, the latest Firefox 4 nightlies feature Firefox Sync, Mozilla’s service that lets you synchronize your bookmarks, tabs, history, passwords, preferences, and other customizations among devices that support Sync: Firefox for desktops, for Maemo devices, and Firefox Home on the iPhone. Just like the original Firefox Sync extension, its preferences are integrated with Firefox [...]

UPDATE: In the latest Firefox 4 beta update, Mozilla is officially branding Firefox’s visual tab organization feature as Panorama. Latest Firefox 4 nightly builds now feature Tab Sets, the ability to organize your tabs by visually grouping them to match your browsing style, introduced a few weeks ago as TabCandy. If you have tried the [...]

If you are a fan of Foxkeh’s monthly desktop wallpapers, you will be happy to know that Mozilla Japan has taken a huge step forward and has made available Foxkeh’s Wallpaper Creator, a cool web application you can use to create your very own desktop wallpaper: choose a size, a Foxkeh design, a background, add [...]

After several months in development Aza Raskin has finally announced Tab Candy, an important update to tabbed browsing. Originally implemented as a low profile extension (the project page asked not to blog about it), it implements several ideas submitted for last year Mozilla Labs’ Design Challenge that asked people to reimagine tabbed browsing. You definitely [...]

Mozilla has released a new update for Firefox 3.6. Among the 126 bug fixes, this release patches 14 security vulnerabilities, 8 labeled as critical. So, don’t take any chances and update right now: select Check for Updates… from the Help menu, and get the latest and greatest in just a couple of minutes.

Many years have past since Winamp’s golden years when Justin Frankel and company scored hit after hit with every release (save Winamp 3), but it’s still my favorite music player (no media player favorite yet), and I’m pleased to learn it has just become the latest WebM supporter, adding its important user base as potential [...]

Firefox Home, Mozilla’s iPhone application that brings your browsing history, bookmarks, and tabs from any computer or mobile device to your favorite closed device, is now available for free from the App Store. Firefox users will need to install the Firefox Sync extension to synchronize their personal data to Mozilla’s Sync service. Once your data [...]

Firefox for Maemo 1.1 is now available for download for Nokia Internet Tablets. This is the first upgrade for a mobile edition of Firefox, and comes just a few months after its initial release early this year. It brings however, an important number of improvements: Portrait mode upon rotate New smart-tapping system that makes clicking [...]

Mozilla keeps putting pieces in place, this time in the mobile front. Firefox Sync, Mozilla’s Firefox extension and service that stores bookmarks, history, tabs, passwords, and preferences so you can access them all from any computer or device running Firefox has been updated. Firefox Sync 1.4 dismisses the status bar icon and is now only [...]

Mozilla’s Dave Townsend loves fractals. So much, one of his works was selected to decorate Mozilla’s Mountain View office. And here you can download it as wallpaper I quickly made for those who want to make their office/room look a little like a Mozilla office!

Mozilla has released a quick update for Firefox to increase the time Firefox waits for a plugin to respond before considering it hung up. For older slower machines, the default 10 seconds is not enough and could cause Firefox to terminate a plugin prematurely, particularly some heavy Flash based games like Zynga’s Farmville, Mafia Wars, [...]

Firefox 4 will feature a significantly updated theme on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. In the last few days significant pieces of the new user interface have started dropping in: The Firefox button (called Minefield in the development builds) gathers the most frequently used menu options in a single point. The button is now [...]

As you may know, Firefox 4 will have the tab bar placed on top of the navigation bar by default, significantly changing the way it looks and, to some degree, behaves for long time Firefox users. As Alex Faaborg emphasizes in this video, this is all about the default layout. Reversing to tabs below the [...]

Firefox 3.6.4 has finally arrived, and as expected it brings added stability by making Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins run on their own process, so if something goes wrong with them, your whole session will still survive and you will be given an option to reload the plugin. While Silverlight, Flash, and [...]

Recent Firefox 4 nightlies feature new support for Web Sockets, a new technology (an HTML5 spin-off) that enables bi-directional communication between a web browser and a server. While the concept may not sound new at first sight, after all we are well used to web chat applications (like meebo, Google Talk, or Facebook Chat), video [...]

Antoine Turmel, Mitchell Field, and Andrew Luecke have proposed Steven Bengston, a POTI developer, as project manager for Nightingale, the open source media player project announced some weeks ago following POTI’s announcement that they would stop shipping a Linux version of Songbird due to lack of resources. Nightingale leaders also announced that they will not [...]

Thomas Frieden and Hans-Joerg took their passion and talent to work and have come up with an elusive and several times tried before goal: produce an alpha version of Firefox that runs on their beloved operating system Amiga OS 4.1 Update2. Dubbed Timberwolf to avoid any trademark infringement, the team states there are some serious [...]

Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1, the ubiquitous browser plugin for video and applications. Besides a number of interesting improvements including hardware accelerated H.264 video decoding and private mode support, it fixes a zero-day security vulnerability disclosed last week, making it a compelling upgrade for everyone. If you don’t want to deal with Adobe’s traumatic [...]

32 national teams are ready to “take the field now, unify us, make as feel proud…” at the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010, and Mozilla is joining the celebration with the Firefox Cup. The idea is pretty simple: use your favorite team persona on Firefox during the World Cup to be counted among the [...]

Firefox 4 nightly builds just got support for WebM, the recently announced open video format, based on Google’s VP8 codec. Previously, WebM support was only available in experimental Firefox builds that debuted the day WebM was announced, a few weeks ago. Recently, Google announced a change to the WebM license to address some concerns about [...]

I enjoy reading the web just like the next guy, but with web ads, comments, related links, featured articles, social network links, and so on sometimes it seems to be more noise than actual content in a web page. To bring focus and peace back, try Readability, a very nice Firefox extension that takes away [...]