As part of the Mozilla project efforts to improve support for Firefox, it unveiled yesterday its Live Chat option. It comes as a third tier of support that follows the Firefox Knowledge Base, a complete rewrite of mozillaZine’s Knowledge Base that started on past July and the Support Forums opened a few months ago and currently in beta status.

Users who have tried live chat  with any provider in the past should recognize it as the most effective way of providing support: one on one.

Read the rest of this entry »

For Foxkeh, it’s 2008 already. To celebrate the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the Mozilla Japan team will enroll Foxkeh on a different sport each month.
For January, it is skiing. Perhaps not the best choice for the Summer Olympic Games but well, it’s winter in Japan so give him a break.

You can suggest your favorite sports for the coming months on Foxkeh’s blog.

AOL announced today that on February 1, 2008, it will stop providing support for any version of Netscape.

It could have meant something thirteen years ago, when it was my browser of choice, a nice competitor for Mosaic and a web technology driver. Or even ten years ago while IE was bullying it out of the game while it was struggling to develop Constellation, a so called and still vaporware “web OS”.

Read the rest of this entry »

As announced last month, a revamped version of Firefox marketing projects site, Spread Firefox, has gone live after about six weeks in beta.

Read the rest of this entry »

Somewhat late for most of the world, but I wish you all enjoy some peaceful and happy times during these holidays, and even better make it last all year long.

Percy

Mozilla Japan has announced the winner of the Get Firefox Video Award, a contest similar to last year’s Firefox Flicks: participants entered by submitting their Firefox promotional video creations.

The response was massive with over 100 videos entries. The winner, announced on December 18th at a party in Tokyo’s club Super-Deluxe was The Night, showed below. Read the rest of this entry »

Some beta and nightly users of Firefox 3 are finding the new location bar autocomplete menu too obtrusive for their liking.

Fortunately it is very easy to adjust: Read the rest of this entry »

Synovel, a startup based on Hyderabad, India founded by a group of International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) graduates, has released a preview of Spicebird, a Mozilla-based collaboration suite.

Spicebird is built on Thunderbird and Lightning, the powerful extension that adds calendaring functions to Thunderbird. Additionally it seems to integrate SamePlace, a Firefox extension that provides instant messaging capabilities based on the Jabber protocol. Read the rest of this entry »

The door is open again and registration available for Weave, Mozilla Labs’ application for synchronizing Firefox metadata online.

To register, visit Weave User Registration site. You only need to provide a valid email address, a password, proof you’re human (thorugh a CAPTCHA test) and click the activation link you will receive by email.

Read the rest of this entry »

Mozilla Labs has just introduced Weave, an experimental project that aims to deliver Mozilla’s vision for a web services integrated web browser.

Read the rest of this entry »