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Thunderbird gets Mozilla US$3m to 'do a Firefox'

Mozilla wants to reproduce the Firefox Web browser's success with Thunderbird, its open-source e-mail software. Read more »

No conspiracy to neglect Firefox: Microsoft

At Microsoft's Tech.Ed conference in Sydney this week, the software giant claimed that all the company's Live services will fully support alternative browsers such as Firefox and Opera. Read more »

Firefox 3 gets a first run

Mozilla has given software developers a first taste of the next version of its Firefox browser. Read more »

Firefox tool gets slick

Rip, mix--get burned? Read more »

Mozilla gets new head honcho

Mozilla Corp., the for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, has promoted chief operating officer John Lilly to chief executive, the organisation behind the Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail software said. Read more »

Firefox gets a fresh security update

Mozilla has issued a security update for its Firefox open-source browser, just weeks after it released a large fix to address several browser security flaws. Read more »

Mozilla Thunderbird gets Firefox-style tabs

A developer has added tabbed browsing of e-mail messages to Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client, mimicking one of the most popular features of the Firefox and Opera Web browsers. Read more »

Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client finally gets calendar

Mozilla Foundation has finally integrated the Lightning calendar to its latest incarnation of open-source e-mail client, Thunderbird 3.0. Users can also expect improved search. Read more »

Developers debate survival of Mozilla suite

The survival of the Mozilla application suite is very much in doubt as developers question whether the success of stand-alone products Firefox and Thunderbird mean the death of the integrated suite that spawned them. Read more »

Mozilla plans to fund developer community

The Mozilla Foundation is planning to use some of its millions of dollars in revenues to fund active members of its developer community, the organisation said on Tuesday. Read more »

Features (28)

Mozilla chairman unfazed by Google Chrome

Things just got a lot more complicated for Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla Foundation's chairman and "chief lizard wrangler." Read more »

Apples vs apples: Chrome takes on beta browsers

The internet has exploded in a single, joyous, mass-hallucination called Chrome. Apparently it's the fastest browser ever and will solve a myriad of problems from slowness within Google Spreadsheet to possibly creating an acceptable carbon trading scheme. Read more »

Customise your Web browsing experience with Greasemonkey

Discover how you can use Greasemonkey to extend and customise the Web browsing experience. Read more »

The Kiwi behind Firefox

Ben Goodger is the lead engineer for the Firefox browser. He talks about Firefox's history, and how he sees it competing with Longhorn. Read more »

Open source's lessons from userspace

Where is the Open Source Usability Experts Group? When you've got your database specialist, your glue logic guy and your OS expert together, where's the person who knows how real non-technical people react to software design? Read more »

Aussie coders changing the world

Though they may not be household names like Thorpie or Lleyton, Aussie developers rank among the world's best. Simon Sharwood profiles our top five geeks. Read more »

Develop WYSIWYG content management

Need to develop a Web-based What You See Is What You Get content manager? Here are a few options you might want to try. Read more »

Free framework looks to simplify Ajax development

Adobe's Spry framework for Ajax is meant primarily for users who are Web design professionals or advanced nonprofessional Web designers. Here's a look into obtaining and using it. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Gian Sampson-Wild

Gian Sampson-Wild is an accessibilty expert and one of the speakers at this year's Web Directions conference to held in Sydney this year. Builder AU interviewed Gian via email prior to the commencement of Web Directions to talk about accessibility, how to make it a part of the development process and where to from here. Read more »

Raphael JavaScript library simplifies creating graphics

This article explains how to use the Raphael JavaScript library and describes the various options that are available in it. Read more »

Blog (5)

Ubuntu gets jaunty

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week's Roundup looks at Ubuntu's new Jaunty Jackalope, new rules of virtualisation, the world of browsers and more. Read more »

Gestation, robots and NASA hacking

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Firefox 3 made it out the door last week, and set a world record while doing so; after 15 years Wine 1.0 also hit the street. We also look at robots, google developer day and outsourcing in this week's Weekly Roundup. Read more »

Just how much memory is Firefox using?

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- According to our logs 40% of you use Firefox: can you tell how much memory it's using? Here's a few tricks you should know if you're trying to cut it down to size. Read more »

Are your Web apps ready for the next-gen browser war?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Webkit, Firefox, and Internet Explorer are all scheduled to update their browsers in 2008. Are you ready for Web dev test fest 08? Read more »

Startup Camp Sydney: The review

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- Three new Australian technology start-ups, uTag, TrafficHawk.com.au and LinkViz, were conceived and launched over the weekend in a lightning initiative dubbed "Startup Camp Sydney". Read more »

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  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

  • Staff Adobe briefly considered its own browser

    Internet Explorer dominates the Web browser market, but are that many people so in love with it? Meanwhile, the Flash player dominates its segment because lots of people find it to be a terrific. So might Adobe one day decide that the next logical step is to try its hand at building its own Web browser? Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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