Tomorrow, Dion and I are giving a talk at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco at the Moscone Center: “Web Developer Tools: How to Be Productive Building for the Web” (Wed. Apr 1, 10:50 am). While normally Web … Continue reading
Personas for Firefox is a prototype extension that adds lightweight theming to the browser. Today, we are launching a major expansion of the Personas experiment, which includes more dependable functionality, a cleaner look, an expanded gallery of artistic designs, and … Continue reading
Weave Sync is a prototype that encrypts and securely synchronizes the Firefox experience across multiple browsers, so that your desktop, laptop and mobile phone can all work together. It is part of the Weave project, which aims to integrate services … Continue reading
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been iterating on the idea & design of what a Firefox new tab could look like. All told, we’ve now gone through 36 different versions of the page, with thousands of particpants helping … Continue reading
They say Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and co-author of the Mosaic browser, once said: [An operating system] is just a bag of drivers. People have been fantasizing about the web as application platform for as long as we’ve had … Continue reading
We’ve been iterating quickly over the last couple of weeks to define a potential new tab screen for Firefox. The feedback for the last major iteration was largely positive, and it seems like we are on the right track. But … Continue reading
It’s time once again for Labs Night, our monthly meetup to discuss Labs projects, your projects, and the Open Web. Our February session will be next Thursday, 3/26, 6pm at Mozilla’s office – 1981 Landings Drive, bldg K in Mountain … Continue reading
Work seems to be accelerating on the Bespin project. You think that there may be a lull after launch, but the opposite has happened thanks to the great contributors that have dived in heads first to the young project. A … Continue reading
Since releasing an experimental new tab page for Firefox a week ago, we’ve got a lot of great feedback. For the past week we’ve been using the feedback as a springboard for designing the next iteration. If you’d like to … Continue reading
I’m Nick Nguyen, the Add-ons Lead at Mozilla. The add-ons team has been working closely with Labs on how extension development could be better and we’re approaching this problem from multiple angles, in terms of both improving the experience of … Continue reading
