What&#39;s Next For Mozilla?
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ezberry writes &quot;After releasing version 1.0 of Firefox, what&#39;s ahead for the Mozilla Foundation and the venerable Firefox browser?
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Mozilla gets ready to launch what may become one of the most significant steps in Internet browser innovations since the release of the Internet Explorer 4.0.
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Mozilla should soon be experimenting with some novel user-interface technologies for its browser and other products, according to a UI developer that&#160;joined Mozilla this week from startup company Humanized.Aza Raskin, who until Wednesday was president of Humanized, a five-person startup in Chicago, is now user experience lead for the Mozilla Labs team, he said Thursday. He will be working on technology to let people &quot;do anything you want to do, anywhere, anytime on your computer,&quot; he said.Mozilla announced Wednesday that it had hired three of the principals from Humanized, which is known for its innovative work with the Enso project to create more intuitive user interfaces. Mozilla did not identify the people it hired, and Raskin was hesitant at first to say which of his colleagues had joined him at Mozilla. Eventually he acknowledged that Humanized&#39;s Jono DiCarlo and Atul Varma also have joined the company known for its Firefox browser.Enso user-interface software was designed to make it easier to perform daily tasks that require the use of multiple applications or functions. The software runs in the background and allows users to type in simple commands to access applications, instead of leaving the window or application they are in to use another one.For example, if a user wants to open Firefox from the current screen, instead of having to find the Firefox icon or go to the Start menu in Windows, Firefox can be opened by pressing the Caps Lock key and typing &quot;open firefox.&quot; Performing calculations and acquiring word definitions can be executed in a similar way from whichever window the user is in at the time.&quot;Those ideas need to be explored at Mozilla,&quot; Raskin said, though &quot;it&#39;s unclear yet what form that will take.&quot;He and his Humanized colleagues were attracted to Mozilla because the company &quot;has a lot of vision&quot; to extend the Web beyond the browser, he said. The Firefox browser remains the company&#39;s primary product for now, however, although it also offers the Thunderbird open-source e-mail client.Raskin said that many advances on the Web, in terms of online services and mashups, have been designed with the developer in mind, and because of that they run the risk of making the browser a mere delivery vehicle for streaming applications -- much like what the desktop has become. He aims to use technology and ideas from the Enso project to add more human interaction not just to the browser, but to anything people do on the Web itself.&quot;I want the power of mashups not in the hands of the developer but in the hands of end-users -- in the hands of your grandmothers and your teen-aged son,&quot; he said. &quot;So you really can be writing an e-mail and say, &#39;Now I want a map in there.&#39; Things like that -- a place where you can actually start having a conversation with your computer.&quot;Raskin said that most people, whether they know it or not, are captive to their computer -- they do their work on it or use it only in the way the computer allows, and have very little control over that interaction. The idea behind Humanized, and now the work Raskin and his colleagues will do at Mozilla, is to change that for everyone, not just people who know their way around a computer.Mozilla did not actually acquire Humanized, and Raskin said its Web site will be up for some time, but the company is effectively now part of Mozilla. He and his colleagues are working out which pieces of the Enso project will be relevant to their work at Mozilla, he said. Raskin posted on his blog about his new position.Of the remaining Humanized employees -- systems architect Scott Robbin and Treasurer Andrew Wilson -- only Robbin&#39;s next move is clear for now. Raskin said Robbin is running the company&#39;s music-search-engine project, Songza.&#160;
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Following up on the success of the Firefox open source Web browser, released by the Mozilla Foundation last fall, open source software developers are readying some new products aimed at a consumer market still dominated by proprietary software.
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The Firefox browser may have put the spotlight on the open-source Mozilla Foundation, but the group&#39;s namesake suite also continues to progress.
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As December comes to a close, the group that launched the upstart Web browser application Firefox can look back on 2004 with satisfaction. Mozilla has seen the Firefox browser downloaded over 13 million times since its release in November.
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Late Tuesday night -- without warning -- the Mozilla organization posted Beta 3 of Firefox 3.0, for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux platforms. Release notes are indicating substantial progress on new and so far unseen features.
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(InfoWorld) - Mozilla has hit an early milestone on the road to the next version of its open-source browser, but the final product is still a year away, developers say. The Mozilla team released its first alpha release of Firefox 3.0 Friday, giving Firefox and Web application developers an early look at the next-generation browser. This release is not intended for regular users, not even those who like to play around with early versions of the product, Mozilla said. The software, code-named Gran Paradiso, comes justÂ six weeks after Mozilla shipped version 2.0 of the browser, but it has already been more than a year in development, according to Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's vice president of engineering. The final version of Firefox 3.0 is expected to be released by the end of 2007. Developers hope that it will be a major step toward making Web applications indistinguishable from programs that are installed on the desktop, Schroepfer said. Gran Paradiso features better support for a number of graphics standards, such as the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) language and the Canvas specification, Schroepfer said. "These are fairly major architectural changes to enable us to improve performance." Firefox 3.0 also supports the Cairo graphics library, which aims to make Web pages look the same whether they are being printed or viewed on a Windows PC, a Macintosh or small-screen device. The Firefox 3.0 plan calls for browsing, bookmarking and privacy enhancements to be built into the browser, but Schroepfer said there is still a lot of time to work out new features. "It's a bit early to be talking about the user-facing features," he said. Â
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The day has finally arrived for the Mozilla Foundation and its sleep-deprived developers; Firefox 1.0 is out the door, ready to make its official debut. Billed as a faster, more secure alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Firefox has already garnered rave reviews and ignited the browser war flames once again.
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commentary The debate between Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox has intensified in recent months. Media columnists have put forth the merits of their case; an overwhelming number believe the time is right to bury Internet Explorer.
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&quot;These last few months have been extremely exciting for the talented developers at the Mozilla project. Their Firefox browser has re-ignited the browser wars and done what no one thought possible -- taken
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As browsers like Mozilla and Opera find more widespread use, Microsofts Internet Explorer is facing a new challenge to its superman status in the world of browsers, says LinuxInsider in its sneak preview of new Mozilla Firefox browser.
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The Mozilla Foundation has unveiled at least part of what lies ahead for its popular browser, Firefox, as it moves into its second iteration.
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Mozilla Corp. has released the last planned alpha update to Firefox 3.0; the new browser moves to beta testing at the end of the month and is due out in final form by the end of the year.
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Mozilla browser is less complete than Internet Explorer but is much more than just an anti-Microsoft statement. Is computing not making the progress it used to, or did I just read a story
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com December 22, 2004, 5:32 PM PT. The Mozilla Foundation is hatching yet another software project to challenge a key Microsoft title.
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Testing times Mozilla released an alpha version of Firefox 3, targeted at developers, on Friday in a bid to make sure the foundations of the next version of its browser are solid well before putting on all the bells and whistles.â¦