lundi 2 juin 2008

One of our volunteers in the Austrian press

It's really nice to see Abdulkadir Topal being interviewed in Der Standard. Abdulkadir is one of the many people helping our users to get a better Web experience in their own language. Abdulkadir is a student in Germany. His work on Firefox localization is used by 15 to 20 millions people in  […]

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jeudi 29 mai 2008

How Firefox 3 performance boost makes a difference in the real world

We've seen through various blog posts that Firefox 3 uses significantly less memory than Firefox 2 (and the dominant browser) and is so far the fastest browser according to Apple's SunSpider benchmark. But does this mean in the real world? What does it actually change for our users? Does it really  […]

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jeudi 22 mai 2008

I love you too, Galego!

When I was doing my keynote at the bDigital Global Congress, I discussed the fact that localization teams where very important for Mozilla. In this regard, Spain is a great example of this, since there are several co-official languages on top of Spanish (also called Castellano), including Basque,  […]

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mercredi 21 mai 2008

Firefox 3 anti-phishing and anti-malware demo

In case you were looking for links to phishing and malware Websites (like me when doing demos), here you are: This is a phishing Website This is a malware Website.  […]

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mercredi 14 mai 2008

Mozilla joins the Linux Mobile (LiMo) Foundation

(Post edited for clarity 12 hours later) As Jay Sullivan puts it, What makes LiMo especially attractive for Mozilla is that it’s all about code, where previous efforts around mobile Linux have been more focused on developing standards. We intend to participate actively in all aspects of the LiMo  […]

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Fake Steve Jobs loves Firefox 3

Following a very nice meeting with Rory Cellan-Jones, a video demo of Firefox 3 was published by the BBC (Jane already blogged about it). I happened to use my own history data during the demo, and used Fake Steve Jobs as an example, because I love this blog. It looks like Fake Steve has heard about  […]

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lundi 28 avril 2008

Serve your users well: be a non-profit

Paul Graham has published a new essay, Be Good, about the similarity between start-ups and non-profit organizations. About a month after we started Y Combinator we came up with the phrase that became our motto: Make something people want. (...) Another thing we tell founders is not to worry too much  […]

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vendredi 25 avril 2008

Firefox progress in Europe

Firefox market share in Europe, source: Xitimonitor.com Firefox market share in Europe, source : Xitimonitor.com 3 pieces of news have just appeared on my radar, all of them related to Firefox success in Europe: According to Xiti, Firefox is getting close to 29% in Europe. The increase is 4.5  […]

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