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Firefox for Tablets Nightly Launched
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Posted on September 20, 2011 by

Mozilla has launched an updated nightly version of Fennec (Firefox for Mobile) which will run on Android based Tablets. According to the comments it also will work on Nook Color running CyanogenMod 7 as well as on some other OS … Continue reading →

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Mozilla to Develop Mobile OS
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Posted on July 26, 2011 by

Mozilla has announced plans for its own Mobile OS, Boot to Gecko or B2G for short. This is going to be somewhat based off the Android platform, but unlike the Android platform, B2G is going to be fully open source.The … Continue reading →

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TenFourFox
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Posted on March 25, 2011 by

Important: TenFourFox is not an official Mozilla product and is not an officially sanctioned build of Firefox. Further since this for the Mac I have not able to use this application, nor would I be able to provide any type … Continue reading →

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7capture
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Posted on February 23, 2011 by

Since the upcoming releases of Firefox 3.5, 3.6 and 4.0 are stalled at the moment, going to take this time to review some of the free software I’ve been using. First up is 7capture. As the name implies it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Microsoft, Open Source, Vista, Windows 7 | 3 Comments

IBM names Firefox its default browser
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Posted on July 1, 2010 by

Quote “Firefox has become the default browser for nearly 400,000 IBM employees, a big coup for the open-source project during a time of increasing browser competition.” ‘All IBM employees will be asked to use it as their default browser,’ Bob … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, Open Source | 1 Comment

Pondering Linux
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Posted on June 10, 2010 by

Note: I am posting this both on my personal El Guru and Firefox Extension Guru’s Blogs to get as much feedback as I can on this. As some my long time Firefox Blog readers may recall I had experimented a … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Open Source, Other, Ubuntu | 14 Comments

We've Turned 3!
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Posted on May 14, 2009 by

Back on May 1st, The Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog turned 3. Taking a looking back around May 1st for the past 3-years, here were some of the big news items: 2006 Mike Schroepfer announced developers were yanking Places from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog News, Firefox, Fx 1.5, Fx 2.0, Fx 3.0, Fx 3.5, IE, Microsoft, Open Source, Other, Tips & Tweaks, Ubuntu, Vista, Yahoo | 1 Comment

Foxit Reader STILL Free
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Posted on April 27, 2008 by

This morning I opened my Thunderbird to find an alarming comment on the Adobe Acrobat vs Foxit Reader article. UHammerIT wrote: Capitalism Killed The FOXit reader And yet another one bites the dust. Foxit Reader is no longer a free … Continue reading →

Posted in CyberNet, Firefox, Fx 2.0, Open Source | 9 Comments

Mozilla's 10th Birthday
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by

March 31, 1998 was the official beginning for Mozilla (then Netscape Communication Corp) with first developer release of Netscape Communication 5.0. Over the next 10-years the source code ended up being completely re-written. Here’s the press release: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. … Continue reading →

Posted in Browsers, Firefox, General Mozilla, Open Source, Thunderbird | 4 Comments

Microsoft Mum on Alleged Patents Violated
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Posted on March 25, 2008 by

Back in May 2007, Microsoft publicly claimed Free Software Violates Patents! Todd Bishop had a lengthy article on this topic. Now, nearly a year later Microsoft won’t publicly disclose what patents are being infringed by Linux and other open-source programs. … Continue reading →

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