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Mozilla outlines plans for Firefox Mobile

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901am.com Mozilla is indeed very “serious about bringing the Firefox experience and technology to mobile devices.” In a blog post of Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla’s vice president of engineering, he laid out the key actions plans to increase their mobile presence.

As for the timetable, Mozilla did not give specific date saying “Mobile Firefox will arrive later (certainly not before 2008)”.

Although there was a strong demand to make Firefox available to mobile phones in recent years, Mozilla has deferred its entry due to low CPU or memory specs of available phones at that time. With the launch of iPhone and better smartphones, they have no doubt this is the right time to dominate the mobile web browser war. To quote from Schroepfer:

Absolutely! Up until very recently device limitations required writing new mobile browsers from the ground up. Being able to leverage all the investments in the Mozilla platform across both desktops and devices is the right approach. There is far from a dominant player in this marketplace and even the best mobile browsers today have compromises in user experience, performance, and compatibility. There is still *plenty* of room for innovation.

Originally posted on October 11, 2007 @ 12:05 pm

Mozilla launches Firefox eBay edition

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Firefox eBay EditionMozilla launched an eBay customized version of its popular Firefox browser available for eBay users in U.K, France and Germany.

With Firefox eBay-edition bidders and sellers can now easily keep an eye on their eBay trades, whether their browsing other websites or whatever they’re doing online.

Some of the other features of this eBay browser include auction status alerts; a quick access sidebar that shows real-time notification on items being watched, bid, or sold; as well as eBay’s Account Guard which ensures users that they’re viewing the legtimate eBay site.

The Mozilla Firefox eBay Edition is available for download here. This, however, is not yet available for use in the U.S.

Originally posted on July 8, 2007 @ 1:53 pm

Yoono releases “Buzz It!” plugin for Firefox

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yoono.jpgYoono announced the public beta of Buzz It!, its free social Web clipping/annotation plugin for FireFox. Now at 650,000 Yoo’sers strong, the company is expanding its popular social search community to help surfers capture and share the most interesting things they find on the Web.

Yoono Buzz It! is an extension to its patent-pending recommendation engine for Firefox and IE that combines search, research, annotation, and the ability to share packaged content with friends and associates. Buzz It! allows people to clip interesting text, links, images, and video and capture personal notes while surfing. Whether they’re researching topics, comparing prices for their next vacation, shopping for music or movies, or archiving favorite content, Yoono Buzz It! allows them to organize and save their information, and it’s accessible from any PC or Mac.

“Yoono Buzz It! is the easiest, most versatile tool for capturing and sharing information around topics, text, images, and video,” said Pascal Josselin, CEO of Yoono. “Surfers can create or access their Buzz notes from from any browser, on any PC and sharable with others through RSS, email, and published on their blogs and social networks. And most importantly, all of this content is indexed in the Yoono database to help enhance and personalize the online experience for our users.”

Originally posted on May 25, 2007 @ 4:39 pm

Firefox Remains Second Most Popular Browser, Chrome still at Third Place

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A fierce competition exists among the different web browsers for market share and right now Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome are in the top three.

According to a report published by Net Applications, Microsoft Internet Explorer still maintains the lead with a significant 52.84 percent of the market but it is in the fight for second place that things get interesting. [Read more…]

Firefox 8 Mobile Targeted at Honeycomb Tablets Running Android

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Fans of the popular open source browser Firefox will be happy to hear that the Mozilla team has started development of their mobile browser, Fennec, specifically for Android based tablets.

The aim of the team is to release Fennec, together with Firefox 8, and provide a TabletUI, working with Android tablets using Honeycomb (or higher). The work page already includes links to UI mockups, which we added below.

Firefox Fennec for Tablets - Honeycomb: Fullscreen internet
Firefox Fennec for Tablets - Honeycomb: Fullscreen browsing

Work is on-going and the crew hopes to be able to release the final UI early in the development cycle of Firefox 8, which is scheduled for this year.

Enjoy more mockup images after the jump. [Read more…]