The Mozilla website hosts several add-on directories for Mozilla software such as those for Firefox or Thunderbird. If you look at these add-ons you will eventually notice that not all add-ons are compatible with the version of Firefox or Thunderbird that you are using. The Mozilla website will even display if the add-on is compatible [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mozilla Add-Ons Sort Broken?
The Mozilla website hosts – among other programs and files – the web browser Firefox and the email client Thunderbird. The very same website is also a directory for Firefox and Thunderbird add-ons which can be browsed and downloaded from the website. Add-ons can be sorted in various ways including by popularity, date, name or [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Thunderbird 3 Release Candidate 1
The first release candidate of Thunderbird 3 has just been released by the Mozilla developers after four beta releases. This marks a new milestone in the development of the desktop email client. The changes in this release are unfortunately not made clear in the release notes as they are being used to list the new [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mozilla Raindrop
The Raindrop project was introduced the other day at the Mozilla Labs website by the Mozilla Messaging team which also develops the email client Thunderbird. Raindrop aims to be the only software program a user needs to manage all messaging needs. It does so by allowing the user to add different data sources like Gmail [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 RC2
A little bit more than a week ago we previewed the first release candidate of the Mozilla Seamonkey 2.0 Internet suite. The program, which started of with code based on Netscape Communicator, combines not only a web browser but also an email client, IRC client, instant messenger, newsgroup client and HTML editor in the application. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mozilla Plugin Check
The Mozilla Firefox development team started to check the Flash plugin version of Firefox web browsers on the What’s New page after Firefox updates recently. This page would inform users if the Flash plugin version of their web browser was not the latest one which usually meant that their web browser was open for attacks [...]
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Email Client Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 Update
The Mozilla Thunderbird development team has released an important update for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. The upgrade which will increase the version of the email client to 2.0.0.23 includes one critical security fix that was reported by security researcher Dan Kaminsky. The compromise of SSL-protected communication vulnerability allows attackers to obtain certificates that would [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Block Images To Surf Faster
Bandwidth and speed are usually not a big concern for many users with broadband Internet connections. It is however something that users who connect to the Internet with slow connections have to be careful about. Users with slow connections like those connecting from smartphones can increase the speed of their web browser by blocking elements [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox 3.5.2 Released
The latest version of the Firefox 3.5x branch is currently being distributed to all official Mozilla mirror servers around the world. Some are already hosting the latest version Firefox 3.5.2 for all supported languages and operating systems while others are only showing the directory structure but no files yet. It is likely going to take [...]