Mozilla
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In a big step forward for Swfdec and free software Flash playback,
Benjamin Otte announced in his blog that
Swfdec now is able to handle YouTube. This means you no longer need the proprietary Flash player to view videos on YouTube. Benjamin have worked hard on swfdec the last six months and it has taken big leaps forward in terms of what sites it is able to support. Be sure to grab the latest code and give it a test run.
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The GNOME-Fx themes are now updated for Firefox 1.5. You can install them from gnomefx.mozdev.org
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I got around updating the GNOME-Fx themes for 1.0. The GNOME-Fx themes try to make Firefox look like a native GNOME application. Version 0.10.1 is a huge improvement because the themes use more native looking GTK widgets and also the help is GNOMEized. Check out the screenshots yourself.
There are currently 3 themes:
- GNOME-Fx: it uses green GTK icons and blends for example well in with the default theme of GNOME 2.6 and the default Ubuntu theme
- GNOME-Fx-blue: it uses blue GTK icons and blends for example well in with the Glider (SmoothGNOME) and the Indubstrial theme.
- GNOME-Fx-Simple: especially designed to work with the GNOME Simple theme. It's basically GNOME-Fx with a patch to get the menu's to work correctly in the Simple theme
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Mozilla Firefox 1.0 has been released today. A preview release and two release candidates later. More information can be found at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ or if you're like most and wish to go straight to the download: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/
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I'm pleased to announce the availability of the GNOME-Fx 0.10.1 themes for Mozilla Firefox 0.10 (I hope to release a version for Firefox 1.0 next week). The GNOME-Fx themes try to make Firefox look like a native GNOME application. Version 0.10.1 is a huge improvement because the themes use more native looking GTK widgets and also the help is GNOMEized. Check out the screenshots yourself.
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Last Wednesday, the GNOME Foundation had a meeting with some representatives of the Mozilla Foundation
about how GNOME could collaborate a little closer with the Mozilla Project in the future.
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The latest version of Mozilla has reached beta and among the new additions are a couple of GTK/GNOME specific items:
- improved GTK2 theme support
- support for smb:// urls using gnome-vfs.
Anyone interested in following or helping to further improve GNOME integration might like to check out the meta bug for tracking GNOME integration
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Mozilla 1.6 is out and includes a
new cross-platform NTLM authentication module, security improvements,
and crash fixes. See the release notes
for details.
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Mozilla.org has just announced that they have created a new non-profit organization, the Mozilla Foundation, to continue the management of the Mozilla source. The new foundation will be made up of current mozilla.org staff, along with other open source leaders, including Mitch Kapor, who will chair the foundation. To help with the foundation's costs, AOL has pledged 2 million dollars, along with hardware and other resources, and other companies, including IBM, Red Hat, and Sun, are also pledging support. More information can be found in the press release or in the newsgroup posting.
Also on Mozillazine, AOL has cut the remaining Mozilla hackers.
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Mozilla 1.4 is out. We've added lots of
features and fixed lots of bugs since Mozilla 1.3. Among the additions are NTLM
authentication support on Windows and improvements to pop-up blocking,
junk-mail filtering, and image blocking. More information is available in the
release notes.
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Mozilla 1.4 Beta is out. This release includes
support for NTLM authentication, usability improvements, and lots of
performance, stability, and site compatibility fixes. More information
is available in the release notes.
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Just saw this on Freshmeat:
Mozilla-bonobo is a Netscape-compatible browser plugin that uses GNOME bonobo controls to display content of supported MIME types inside browser windows.
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But incremental development of the kind we've had since 1.0 is not enough for a healthy open source project. It's clear to us that Mozilla needs a new roadmap, one that charts a path to an even better future. Below we will propose a new application architecture based on the Gecko Runtime Environment (GRE), which can be shared between separate application processes. Before discussing the rationales and trade-offs, here are the implications and key elements:
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From Mozilla.org:
Mozilla 1.3 is now available for download.
First there was image blocking, then came pop-up blocking, and now we have
junk-mail
filtering (AKA "spam controls"). Mozilla 1.3 also offers image
auto-sizing, an API
for rich text editing in webpages, newsgroup filters, dynamic profile
switching, nearly 2000 bug fixes, and much more. See the
release notes for additional information.
