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Making Thunderbird Financially Sustainable: How it Could Work

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/11/2010
Mozilla Messaging is looking forward to a big year in 2010 including Thunderbird 3.1 and figuring out how to make the project financially sustainable. Making Thunderbird better is the easier part. Figuring out how to make money as a project is another story entirely. No doubt the next release of Thunderbird, currently code-named Lanikai, will do [...]
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Mozilla Sponsors GNOME Accessibility Efforts

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/4/2010
Good news on the accessibility (a11y) front. Mozilla has donated $10,000 to help with GNOME's a11y efforts. This isn't the first time that Mozilla has contributed to GNOME (and hopefully, not the last). The projects have a long history of working together on a11y efforts dating back at least to 2008 when the Mozilla folks [...]
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Opera Using GStreamer, Pushing Ogg

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/13/2010
Opera recently released an alpha of the coming 10.5 release, which includes quite a few improvements and new features. One of the things that most users probably didn't notice is that Opera is now using the GStreamer media framework. Even though the Opera browser isn't open source, the company is doing some good work to push [...]
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Become a Firefox Test Pilot

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 1/11/2010
Want to help the Mozilla Project produce the best Firefox possible, but have no developer skills at all? Can you point? Click? Read instructions? Then you’re ready to suit up as a Firefox Test Pilot. Crashes not required. If you’ve ever felt like you want to give back to the Firefox project, or if you feel [...]
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Mozilla Jetpack Gets an Update

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/28/2009
Mozilla Labs released Jetpack 0.7 just before Christmas with a special gift for add-on developers. The latest release comes with a brand-new API so add-on authors can give users some tips and info the first time that they run a new Jetpack. It also includes a number of enhancements, updates, and bugfixes. This release also [...]
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Web Winners and Losers in 2009

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/18/2009
Break out the Champagne and get ready to celebrate the winners of the Web in 2009, and give a few shots to the losers. Looking back on 2009 on the Web, we saw some tectonic shifts in the market and major developments that are going to make 2010 very interesting indeed. Grab your tickets and [...]
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Mozilla Jetpack Design Challenge Extended

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 11/27/2009
Need an excuse to avoid the relatives for the rest of the holiday weekend? How about rolling up your sleeves and taking a crack at the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge? The deadline has been extended to Monday, November 30, giving a few more days to crank out a winning design. Read more on OStatic...
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