Archive for January, 2008

Mozilla Receives a New CEO

By | January 9, 2008 | 1 Comment

Mozilla Receives a New CEOYes, I bet you’ve already heard that.

Here’s a great quote from Mitchell’s blog post:

Once I allowed myself to think about this I realized that John will be a better CEO for the MoCo going forward than I would be. I’m sure that I was the right person for this role during the first years of MoCo; I’m equally sure that John is the best person for this role in the future.

As a result I’ve asked John to take on the role of CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, and John has agreed.

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2007 December Browsers Market Share Results

By | January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

2007 December Browsers Market Share Results It’s time for the December, 2007 web browsers market share report. See November stats here.
As you will see in this graph, there are some noticeable changes for the Opera web browsers. Not sure why, but both of them (Opera and Opera Mini) got slightly different values than they should. It’s the second month, so not sure if it’s a bug. However, we have keep going and post what we know.

Yet another bad month for the Internet Explorer. This time it felt from 77.35% to 76.04% (1.31% decrease).

Firefox market share continues growing and might reach 20% very soon, they have increased its market share by 0.79%: from 16.01% to 16.80%. Continue Reading

How to Migrate From Netscape to Firefox and Thunderbird

By | January 9, 2008 | 0 Comments

How to Migrate From Netscape to Firefox and ThunderbirdA few weeks ago Netscape announced that they won’t be developing any new Netscape Navigator releases in the near future. As this web browser is really similar to Firefox, most of the current Netscape Navigator users will probably move to Firefox.

If you are using Navigator and would like to know more about migrating from it to Firefox, there’s a nice tutorial called “Migrating from Netscape to Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird” in their blog. Hope you will find it useful. Continue Reading

SpaceTime – 3D Web Browsing

By | January 8, 2008 | 2 Comments

SpaceTime 1.0Now this is something interesting. Have you ever heard about SpaceTime? No? You should check their web page then and watch the video. Firstly I thought that it’s just yet another useless “feature”, however, after watching SpaceTime demo video, I’ve changed my mind. It is not as useless as I thought. Check this screenshot for example: Continue Reading

New Firefox Campaign – It’s Just Wrong

By | January 8, 2008 | 3 Comments

Firefox MarketingThere’s a video which should do some kind of marketing I guess (and it really does):

So according to that video, Firefox users compared to IE users are:

14% less likely to have sleeping disorders
67% more likely to go mountain biking
40% less likely to be widowed Continue Reading

IE7Pro 2.0 Released

By | January 2, 2008 | 0 Comments

IE7 Pro 2.0This is one of the “must have” add-ons for Internet Explorer 7 users, and new version was just released. One of the most important “new features” (if we can call that a feature) is a 64 bit version. Here’s a complete list of changes and/or new features.

Changelog:

Move to full modular version.
Added MiniDM as a simple replacement for IE default download window
Added hotkey CTRL+M to minimize IE windows to tray iconMore...
64bit version released
Google sponsored search added

IE7 Pro Team did a great job, well done guys.

Download IE7Pro 2.0 32bit version
Download IE7Pro 2.0 64bit version

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Happy New Year!

By | January 1, 2008 | 0 Comments

May this year be at least twice better than the previous ones :-)

By the way, some site changes are on the way.