Firefox fortune hunters
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Just because Firefox is free and open source doesn&#39;t mean developers aren&#39;t cashing in on the popularity of the Mozilla Foundation&#39;s new browser.
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Rumors abound linking Ask Jeeves and Firefox.
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The latest release of Mozilla's lightweight browser for the Mac hints at a major upgrade around the corner. In Monkey Bites.
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The web as your auld grannie might have wished it
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PROGRESS: Many students eagerly await the final version of Mozilla&#39;s Firefox Internet browser that will be released later this month.
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A zero-day flaw in Firefox and third-party Windows patches turn up the heat for Net users. Plus: Buyout boom in security.
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The latest beta release of the next Mozilla Firefox browser is unleashed. Read our review. Plus: Having trouble finding a Firefox 2 download? We've got links. In Monkey Bites.
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Tim Berners-Lee gives the world its first practical web browser. Can Google be far behind? Compiled by Tony Long.
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The Firefox Companion adds a sidebar display to the browser that offers eBay-specific search, bidding tools, status alerts, an auction monitor that can be used by both sellers and buyers, and a page-view counter that tallies visits to an auction.
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Mozilla's latest pre-release version of its browser remains buggy, but performance enhancements give us reason to get excited. In Monkey Bites.
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Open source browser juggernaut rolls on Firefox hit a significant milestone on Friday as it crossed the 400m download mark.â¦
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Mozilla&#39;s new Firefox Web browser can make believers even out of loyal Internet Explorer proponents. By Scot Finnie. This is an extensive update of Scot Finnie&#39;s review of Firefox that originally ran on November 17, 2004.
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In a new blog entry today, Matthew O'Phinney talks about updates (and refactoring) that he's done to a PEAR package he's developed, File_Fortune.   Over the past few evenings, I've refactored File_Fortune to have it implement Iterator, Countable, and ArrayAccess -- basically allowing it to act like an array for most intents and purposes. As a result, I've eliminated the need for the File_Fortune_Writer package, and greatly simplified the usage.   The package is designed to make an interface between the casual PHP user and the fortune files common on most *nix machines. To illustrate he update, he includes some code that grabs the fortune file, parses it to grab a random one and echoes them out. Also included is the save() method so you can add your own to the list easily.
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Mike told me it would be okay to use Firefox 3 beta on the Mac. So I am. So far so good.  Firefox 2 was starting to hang every five minutes. But one of my critical plugins doesn't work in Firefox 3. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh. Software sucks.&trade;
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The browser market lives, and IT executives should be open-minded about using Firefox and other alternatives. The browser market lives.
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In March 2002, I made a bet with Martin Nisenholtz about the relative importance of weblogs and the New York Times. I was and am a blogger, and Martin worked then, as he does now, for the Times. For the actual terms of the bet, read the piece on the LongNow site, and a story I wrote to announce the bet. A few comments.  1. It seems now is the time to decide who won the bet, if either of us did. 2. The world that I hoped would come about did not. While blogs have broken many stories, they have not, in general, turned into the authoritative sources I hoped they would in 2002. When the blogosphere resembles journalism it's often the tabloid kind.  3. I wouldn't mind losing the bet. That is, I wouldn't mind if the Times fully embraced the web, and I suspect Martin wouldn't mind if blogs rose to the quality of the Times. 4. If the bet had been held a year later, it seems there would be a pretty good chance that Martin would have won the bet because they recently took down the firewall at the Times, allowing search engines to index the full content. In the past, articles would remain visible for a couple of weeks then you'd have to pay money to access them. I believe they have a special deal with Google and other crawlers that allow them to get past the membership wall. For most of 2007 the Times articles were behind the firewall, and were less likely to be pointed to (which is how they rise in rank at Google). 5. It certainly is fun to speculate, but the decision about who won belongs exclusively to the Long Now Foundation. They have to decide who determines what the top stories of 2007 are, and imho they should consult with search experts to determine how to do the queries. Apparently it makes a difference how you do it.  But ultimately it's their decision. 6. Whether Wikipedia has more or less results seems to be a sidebar to the bet, which only talks about blogs and the Times. 7. Another interesting sidebar is rich media. In 2002, before podcasting had taken hold, before YouTube existed, it would have been hard to forsee the story of the South Carolina beauty queen, or the Don't Tase Me Bro guy. Questions about the future are always framed in the context of the past. Did the question Martin and I asked have any value in 2007, or did it just say something about the world of 2002?   Update: Paul Boutin who arranged the bet, apparently in conjunction with Google (I didn't know this) in 2002, weighs in.
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The Motley Fool - Firefox is catching fire -- pardon the pun -- and for good reason. Web surfers looking for a reliable alternative to Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) Internet Explorer have been busy over the last month downloading the new version of the Web browser. The Mozilla Foundation, a network of programmers jointly developing open-source technology, reports more than 8 million people have downloaded the program since early November.