That’s a big number; clearly Mozilla/Firefox is now and will continue to be a force in the browser wars. Smart move to update and merchandise the Add ons section taking a page out of Apple’s successful app store playbook. I think the concept of bundling add-ons together in their new “collections” section (eg. the “travelers pack” featuring a set of 11 add-ons) is great. In addition, they’ve really taken on a social component by allowing users to create and share their own bundles.
Mozilla/Firefox is really kicking things into gear and this week’s relaunch of the app site with integrated community options should continue to keep them on the major growth path…
Fyi, please take a look at the new Firefox Add-ons site that just launched today - chock full of some very interesting social components. You can read more about it on the source link (from their new blog). Today the Mozilla add-ons team introduced Add-on Collections. Collections enables anyone to create their own collection of add-ons that can be shared with their friends, posted on blogs, and featured on the Firefox Add-ons website. |
| Starting today, visitors to the add-ons website will see a brand new look with collections of add-ons front and center. We’ve integrated collections throughout the site, and created a Collection Directory that showcases all of the add-on lists created by our users. |
| Additionally, the team has also launched an entire redesign of the Add-ons site, which aims to do a better job of explaining add-ons and helping both new and experienced users find fun and useful add-ons through exploration.Read more at blog.mozilla.com |
Article suggests Google is just starting to rev up the engine but I imagine they are going to go after Firefox with a lot of resources. I’d bet chrome will see some significant growth in 2010. | Google’s Chrome browser is closing the feature gap with Firefox by adding some early support for browser extensions. |
| The latest developer channel releases of Chrome offer improved APIs and tools for developers who’d like to start building Chrome add-ons |
| Naturally it will probably be some time before Chrome enjoys an extensive add-on ecosystem like Firefox, but clearly extensions are a priority for Chrome.Read more at www.webmonkey.com |
DK, important that you’re aware of this. Certainly validates our recent decision to speed up amplify by making it read only the current tab a user is on. Oliver Reichenstein and Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, have been thinking about the future of tabs in Firefox, and some of the resulting mockups are quite intriguing. |
Reichenstein argues that tabs were a good solution for an earlier age of the Internet, when users hardly ever had more than ten tabs open at any given time. Now, however, as browsers are slowly turning into operating systems, a new paradigm for organizing this information has become necessary. Read more at www.readwriteweb.com |
If this turns out to be true, this will be huge news for us, as well as for MS. Essentially putting Gecko and Webkit into an IE wrapper will give them the standards compliance and functionality people are clamoring for, but they’ll be able to fall back into “IE mode” for corporate intranets, etc that need it. | according to Smashing Magazine, the newest version of Internet Explorer, codenamed “Eagle Eyes,” supports Firefox plugins |
I thought the bundling of add-ons that work well together was a really neat idea: a social productivity bundle might include Amplify, yammer, Zemanta, etc… | I spoke to Chris Beard - Mozilla’s Chief Innovation Officer and the person overseeing its efforts to bring new concepts to the browser, a.k.a. Mozilla Labs |
| I suggested that Firefox may want to offer bundles of add-ons, so that users don’t have to go hunting around for various individual add-ons. Beard said that yes, this is in the works. He said that users will be able to create add-on “lists” and offer them as a single click to other users - much like Amazon’s wish lists. However he noted that there are usability issues to overcome, because some add-ons aren’t necessarily compatible with others |
| He said that currently Firefox has around 8000 add-ons and that we can expect this bundling feature to come out in the next couple of monthsRead more at www.readwriteweb.com |
“And perhaps most exciting, this is the first version to add support for plugins.”
Wonder if this can accellerate the dev time for clipping on the devices…
Mozilla has released the first public beta of the mobile version of Firefox. Fennec beta 1 will run on Nokia N810 Internet Tablets, Windows, OS X, or Linux computers. A Windows Mobile version will be available later. |
The newest build of Fennec features faster zooming, panning, and start-up times. It also users Mozilla’s TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, allows for editing of bookmarks and use of bookmark folders. And perhaps most exciting, this is the first version to add support for plugins. There aren’t very many compatible plugins yet, but that will likely change in the coming months. Read more at www.downloadsquad.com |
The amount of market share commanded by Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has dropped for the seventh consecutive month. |
| Internet Explorer now has 67.55 percent of global browser market share, a drop of over seven percentage points in a year |
| Mozilla's Firefox browser, meanwhile, has gained market share in the same time frame, climbing over three percentage points to 21.53 percent.
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| Apple's Safari browser now stands at 8.29 percent, up from 7.13 percent in November |
| Google's Chrome browser, launched in September 2008, now has 1.12 percent of the market, having overtaken Opera in NovemberRead more at news.cnet.com |
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Cue Dr. Evil:”Firefox to reach…One billion downloads”) web browser have seen enormous download activity right out of the gate. Firefox 3.0 saw better than 8 million downloads in its first 24 hours, while the Firefox 3.5 update reached one million downloads hours after launch, and his since been downloaded a whopping 63 million times and countingRead more at mashable.com
