Mozilla Firefox is a web browser, gopher client and FTP client project descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 16.80% of the recorded market share... More
Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6 Alpha, Codenamed "Namoroka." It's available for download from the Mozilla FTP website.
How are open source projects surviving the recession? Maybe not so badly, says an anecdotal, unscientific survey of three well-known projects--KDE.org, GNOME.org and SourceForge.net.
OSCON 2009: Governments and open source. The big obstacles to government adoption of open source are similar everywhere, from opaque procurement processes to fears about security.
SCO vs. Linux: an end in sight? Following the bankruptcy court's decision to entrust the continuation of SCO Group's business to a trustee, questions linger.
September is almost upon us, and it will mark the first anniversary of Google's Chrome browser. The very first post I ever wrote on Chrome appeared on September 1st of last year, and I can remember the initial thoughts that came to mind when I considered its prospects: Won't it require extensions, like the great ones available for Firefox, to succeed? What kinds of resources will be available for customizing it? What it will mean in terms of the substantial financial support that Google gives to Mozilla Firefox? Will it be cross-platform?
Almost a year after the arrival of Chrome, it's doing reasonably well, although not shaking the Earth. Net Application's latest browser market share data shows Chrome at 2.6 percent of the market, and growing, not far behind Safari's share of 4.1 percent. I continue to believe, though, that an ecosystem of useful extensions, and good versions of Chrome for the Mac and Linux, are essential for its long-term success. On that last front, there is good news emerging.
Lack of adequate documentation is frequently cited as a shortcoming of open source applications and platforms, but, for the popular choices, there are surprisingly good, free online books available. We round these up on a regular basis here at OStatic, and in this post you'll find five online books that you can jump right into. They introduce basic concepts for getting started with Linux, Firefox, Blender (3D graphics and animation), GIMP (graphics), and the OpenOffice suite of productivity applications.