Mozilla has confirmed, through CEO Mitchell Baker, that developers are working on a mobile version of the uber-popular Firefox browser. The “Firefox Mobile” browser aims to bring the full, desktop experience that users of Firefox already enjoy, to the mobile arena.
According to PC world, Microsoft, FireFox, Google Reader, Opera and others have unofficially signed a peace treaty in a San Francisco conference. The peace treaty asks that the browser be used as a development platform. Instead of trying to compete against one another in a survival environment, they will now focus on advancing their platforms for future Internet applications.
Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which is yet to release a 1.0 version of its browser. Many of the proposed features and some of the mockups created by Mike Beltzner (see above) suggest a significant overlap in the two products.
And Mozilla was faster than Microsoft in releasing patches
Mozilla Corp.’s Firefox suffered from 26% fewer vulnerabilities in the second half of 2006 than Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer, a security company’s research said yesterday.According to Symantec’s tally, 40 Firefox vulnerabilities were disclosed between August and December 2006; Internet Explorer (IE), meanwhile, was hit with 54 bugs. Opera and Safari — the browser Apple Inc. bundles with Mac OS X — had four flaws each.
Many nights, surfing (ahem, I mean, ah, researching) on-line, I want to look at a website I found earlier — maybe hours, days, or months earlier. I look through my Bookmarks and can’t find the link I know I saved. But the next day, back at the office, I find the Bookmark on my computer at work. That’s because I found the page and saved it while I was at work. I’ve done this often enough so that I now have two lists of Bookmarks. Once each list got long enough, I couldn’t remember where I’ve saved something and where I haven’t.
