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Trackle Goes Pro; Launches Premium Version Of Realtime Tracking Alerts (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:30:00 -0600

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Trackle Goes Pro; Launches Premium Version Of Realtime Tracking Alerts — Trackle, the personalized web and realtime feed tracker, is going pro with the launch of premium tracking services aimed at marketing and PR professionals looking to track mentions of clients across the web.

Mozilla to Developers: Let's Build on Weave Sync (Om Malik/GigaOM)

Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:15:05 -0600

Om Malik / GigaOM:
Mozilla to Developers: Let's Build on Weave Sync — As you know, we've been following Mozilla's Weave Sync project for a long time. Last week, the Weave Sync add-on for Firefox was made available. Installable as an extension for Firefox, Weave is way to synchronize bookmarks, saved passwords …

Mozilla ends Firefox support for Mac OS Tiger (Gregg Keizer/Computerworld)

Fri, 5 Feb 2010 16:15:01 -0600

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla ends Firefox support for Mac OS Tiger — Calls Mac OS X 10.4 ‘hindrance’ to development; Apple's already dumped Tiger — Computerworld - Baring any last-minute change of mind, Mozilla will permanently drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 from future editions of Firefox.

Mozilla confirms infected Firefox add-ons slipped through security (Gregg Keizer/Computerworld)

Fri, 5 Feb 2010 11:15:04 -0600

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla confirms infected Firefox add-ons slipped through security — Malware hidden in two extensions threatens Windows users — Computerworld - Mozilla confirmed late Thursday that it failed to detect malware in a pair of Firefox add-ons, which may have infected up to 4,600 users.

Firefox on Android Progressing Nicely, Loads First Page (Casey Chan/Android Central)

Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:55:09 -0600

Casey Chan / Android Central:
Firefox on Android Progressing Nicely, Loads First Page — Like we said before, it's going to take some time before Fennec aka Firefox Mobile actually gets on Android. But at least it looks like porting Fennec over to Android is progressing rather nicely—they actually got their first page load.

Mozilla weighs privacy warnings for Web pages (Declan McCullagh/CNET News)

Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:20:04 -0600

Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Mozilla weighs privacy warnings for Web pages — Unless you speak lawyerese as a second language, a Web site's privacy policy can seem as incomprehensible as the loudspeakers on New York City subways. — The organization behind Firefox, the world's second most popular Web browser, has embarked on an ambitious project to change this.

40,000 More Extensions! (Ian Fette/Chromium Blog)

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:25:01 -0600

Ian Fette / Chromium Blog:
40,000 More Extensions! — One thing that got lost in the commotion of the extensions launch is a feature that is near and dear to my heart: Google Chrome 4 now natively supports Greasemonkey user scripts. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension I wrote in 2004 that allows developers …

Google Chrome steals usage share from IE/Firefox, Win 7 breaks 10% (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/Hardware 2.0)

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:00:29 -0600

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Google Chrome steals usage share from IE/Firefox, Win 7 breaks 10% — Net Applications' data for January is out, and there are some interesting trends displayed. — First, the data shows that Google's Chrome browser has managed to snatch usage share from Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:00:07 -0600

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? — Robert Scoble has a good analogy: … Regarding those blue boxes that indicate embedded Flash content in MobileSafari, think of it this way: Who can make them go away? — Adobe can't. They can't put Flash Player on iPhone OS on their own.

Can Flash be saved? (Robert Scoble/Scobleizer)

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:35:06 -0600

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Can Flash be saved? — UPDATE: for a good counterpoint to this blog, see my new post titled “Google +will+ save Flash.” — Let's go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene. Remember that? I remember that it didn't work with a ton of websites. Things like banks, ecommerce sites, and others.