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Mozilla's Firefox browser.

2004

Spread Firefox. They’re aiming for 1,000,000 downloads in 10 days.

# 15th September 2004, 4:30 pm / firefox

Browser innovation is alive and well

Here’s a feature that caught me by surprise (maybe I haven’t been keeping my ear close enough to the ground): the new Firefox 1.0 preview release supports Live Bookmarks, a novel twist on RSS aggregators where feeds look just like bookmark folders, displaying a list of bookmarks corresponding to the headlines from the feed. Best of all, the feature support RSS autodiscovery. Sites with auto-discoverable feeds display an attractive RSS icon on the right hand side of the status bar, allowing for one click subscriptions.

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Mozilla Firefox—Live Bookmarks (via) Whoa! RSS support built in to Firefox, with a very smart interface.

# 14th September 2004, 4:23 pm / firefox, mozilla

Why I don’t recommend Firefox. The average user needs more mollycoddling.

# 6th September 2004, 9:49 pm / firefox

Firefox spoof demonstration (via) Scary spoofing attack using XUL.

# 13th August 2004, 3:56 pm / firefox

Wikalong Firefox Extension. I got an email tip off about this one too!

# 15th July 2004, 12:48 am / firefox

How to write Firefox extensions. Somone emailed me a link to this.

# 15th July 2004, 12:47 am / firefox

Firefox Extension: Bookmarks Synchronizer (via) Very, very cool. Syncs bookmarks via an FTP server.

# 17th June 2004, 4:36 pm / firefox

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Release Notes. I just installed 0.9 RC 1 on my Mac. It’s prettier than 0.8.

# 9th June 2004, 8:08 pm / firefox, mozilla

Two handy FireFox extensions

Just a quick plug for a couple of FireFox extensions I’ve been digging recently. Chris Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar / menu extension combines ideas from a whole bunch of other extensions and bookmarklets in to one extremely useful whole. The usual assortment of validation and element outlining options are present, but the really useful tools are “View Cookie Information” and “View Response Headers”. I’ve used separate extensions for these before but it’s handy to have them all in one package.

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For Windows Users, ’Browser Hijacking’ Is Only the Latest Threat (via) The Washington Post recommends Firefox or Mozilla over IE.

# 1st March 2004, 4:38 pm / firefox