Mozilla Promotes John Lilly to CEO

Mozilla Corp., which oversees development of the popular Firefox Web browser, has promoted John Lilly to chief executive officer. Lilly took on the new job Monday after serving as Mozilla's chief operating officer since August 2006.

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Firefox has a CPU usage issue and, consequently, can cause overheating problems in some laptops, particularly ultraportables

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Sony is in heavy talks with Mozilla to port Firefox to the PS3.

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Recently, a consortium of type designers and web designers have gathered around a new font format specification called Web Open Font Format (WOFF). The format would allow more typefaces to appear across the web and to be readable by both humans and search engines.

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Type designers and Web designers have reached a consensus on a format specification for embedding fonts on the Web. Mozilla is already including support for the font format in Firefox 3.6, and wide adoption could come sooner than many expected.

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Mozilla Labs, Mozilla's innovation group, has developed a new open-source, experimental email and communication platform called Raindrop.

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If you use Firefox, you may have already seen a pop-up from your browser alerting you that it is blocking the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant and Windows Presentation Foundation add-ons. It's for good reason.

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Mobile Firefox is shaping up into quite possibly the best mobile browser out there. You should care because it's the only mobile browser to share add-ons with its desktop counterpart for the ultimate on-the-go integration.

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Google has launched a new version of its Toolbar for Firefox that lets you translate any webpage with the click of a button without leaving the page. Google will also add web-site suggestions and sponsored links to the toolbar as you type in any query.

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Look for Firefox 4.0 late next year, likely around October, according to a draft roadmap Mozilla updated on its wiki. According to the wiki, this is what users should expect:

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It has been 15 years since Marc Andreessen developed the Netscape Internet browser that introduced millions of people to the Internet. Marc Andreessen in 1996. Netscape was the dominant Web browser until Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer.

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Mozilla has launched a usability test plug-in for its open-source Firefox browser, in a bid to make testing and user feedback easier and more attractive.

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Two weeks ago, Mozilla announced a major milestone for its Firefox (Firefox) web browser: one billion downloads. They even launched OneBillionPlusYou.com to mark the occasion and demonstrate just how large one billion really is.

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Ever since the new Firefox 3.5 came out about a month ago, I've been using it as my main browser. Generally I am very happy with it.

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Where were you when Firefox passed 1 billion downloads? It happened sometime yesterday, some five years after its first release, in 2004.

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Mozilla's Firefox browser is about to hit a major milestone: 1 billion total downloads. As you can see on this Twitter account set up to monitor the download numbers, it just crossed the 999,000,000 threshold earlier today.

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Brace yourself for the vanishing menu bar because Mozilla has published an official feature list for Firefox 3.6 in the form of a guide for programmers who need to know about the changes.

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The pace at which Mozilla works can seem insane. It was less than a month ago when the the company released Firefox 3.5. Only three weeks later, Firefox (Firefox) posted screenshots of Firefox 3.7, which includes a change to the Tools bar and an Embracing Glass design.

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BOXES lined the cubicles and hallways in the offices of Mozilla on a recent afternoon, and its chief executive, John Lilly, seemed a bit disoriented as he looked for a place to sit.

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Mozilla has introduced a new pilot program for Firefox developers to make a little money off add-ons they've created. Developers now have the option to place a "contribution" button on their add-on page, which lets users donate any amount they wish via PayPal.

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Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5 into the wild. Not surprisingly, it's flying off the virtual shelves. And unlike when Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 last year, its servers are staying up and reliable, so the rate of downloads is pretty incredible.

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Apple has been desperately trying to turn Safari into a mainstream browser player. Unfortunately, its numbers simply don't compare to Firefox.

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All in a simple graphic.

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When you installed the .NET Framework "security update," you probably got this little bugger in your Firefox or your Google Chrome (according to the comments). Oh, and you can't uninstall it without going into the registry.

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Don't put up with a bloated version of MSOffice. Give it the boot and run the more efficient and affordable (try free) option.

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Browser makers Mozilla and Opera accused Microsoft yesterday of force feeding Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) to users with Windows Update and silently changing the default browser on PCs.

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