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Browser Chiefs Aiming Squarely At Web Apps

Is innovation in browsers where it should be? We've reported before on how most of the innovation is going on in open source browsers, as Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to lose market share. This week, at two separate conferences, officials from Google and Mozilla have weighed in on how browsers need to improve. Notably, they primarily agree, and their focus doesn't seem matched by Microsoft with Internet Explorer.


Mozilla's Fennec Mobile Browser to Get Firefox-Like Extensions

As we've covered many times, one of the primary reasons for the growing success of Mozilla's Firefox browser is the thriving ecosystem of useful extensions for it, created by the user community. Mozilla is also generating increasing buzz with its innovative, open source mobile browser called Fennec. As we covered here, Fennec is available in an Alpha version for Windows Mobile, and you can see it in action in a video here. One of the big questions surrounding Fennec has been whether Mozilla will try to replicate the success of extensions for Firefox with useful extensions for Fennec, which could make it more flexible and extensible than other mobile browsers. Now, it looks like Mozilla has that goal squarely on its radar.


Mozilla's Jetpack To Make Firefox Extension Development Easier, More Widespread

Mozilla is out with a new project called Jetpack, which is an API designed to make building extensions for Firefox easier and faster. It won't require extensions to be written in XUL and will allow developers to use standard technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Notably, Jetpack will also allow Firefox users to load extensions without annoying browser restarts, and will resolve compatibility issues between older extensions and newer versions of Firefox. Find out more, including a video, in JKOnTheRun's post.?


Fennec, Mozilla's Mobile Browser, Arrives in Alpha for Windows Mobile

We've written before about Fennec, Mozilla's innovative open source mobile browser. For quite a while now, Fennec has been in beta testing on Maemo-enabled Nokia Internet Tablets, but now there is an alpha version available for testing on Windows Mobile 6. It should put the pre-release browser in front of many more people, even though it is intended for developers and testers. You can find a download link and installation notes here. There is also a video of Fennec for Windows Mobile here, which is definitely worth watching.


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Cloud computing: A natural conclusion of open source? The cloud takes open source toward a logical goal, with services reigning.

Will European rules impact open source business models? Differences between enterprise and community versions of applications call for scrutiny.

Is Mozilla planning to scrap tabbed browsing? It's running a design challenge to find an alternative to tabs in browsers.

10 solid Linux distributions for your netbook. Every distro has its own advantages.

Is Linux not yet ready for the desktop? Here's a laundry list of alleged shortcomings.



3 Open Source Productivity Tools for Safari

Safari

Apple's open source browser Safari doesn't always get the love it deserves. That's probably because in its original state, Safari isn't as inviting as Mozilla's Firefox browser with all its native bells and whistles. Nevertheless, Safari has a cadre of loyal fans.

Productivity is the buzzword these days so if your browser of choice can't help you power through your to-do list each day, then it's not very useful. If you've been lukewarm over Safari because you think using it will impede your workflow, then try these handy productivity add-ons before giving up on the Apple browser altogether.



Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate Coming in Early June

It's been a long wait through many beta versions for the final versions of Firefox 3.5 to show up. Today, Mozilla Director Mike Beltzner has a post up confirming that we're setting an aggressive code freeze target of next Wednesday, May 20th for Firefox 3.5 RC. He adds that the official Release Candidate for the browser will arrive in the first week of June.


Take Your Web Apps Out of the Browser with Mozilla's Prism

PrismFresh out of the Mozilla Labs oven this week is a beta version of Prism, a new incarnation of WebRunner that integrates Web applications with the desktop. The idea behind Prism starts with from the premise that as more people move their computing activities to the cloud, users will become increasingly dependent on Web apps designed to replace locally-based email, calendaring, and word processing.

 



Linja Zax Firefox Extension Optimizes Browsing on Touchscreens

Do you use a mobile device with touchscreen capabilities and the Firefox browser? If so, look into JKOnTheRun's post about Linja Zax. It's an extension for Firefox that optimizes browsing on touchscreen devices. According to James Kendrick: I am only beginning to scratch the surface of what Linja Zax does, but it?s already making a big difference to my handheld browsing experience. It adds zoom in/out abilities that are invoked by simply drawing a circle on the screen. Swoop one way to make things bigger and the other way to make them smaller. It is configurable, so you can make it as smooth as you want. You know how on the iPhone the Safari browser automatically zooms a new web page to be displayed optimally when it?s opened? Linja Zax does that, too, by making the page fit the small screen automatically. It does this for both landscape and portrait orientation. Check out more at JKOnTheRun.


A Mac User Reports That a Variant of Firefox 3.5, Beta 4 is Fastest

While most Windows-based users of Beta 4 of Firefox 3.5 are finding it to be speedy and efficient, and benchmark tests back that up, some Mac-based users are finding it to be slower than previous versions of the browser. Charles Moore, writing on TheAppleBlog, found a speedy solution in the Shiretoko variant of the Firefox beta. He writes: Shiretoko (named after the Shiretoko National Park in northern Japan) transparently picked up where Firefox left off, even opening my saved browser session, and it runs the few Firefox add-on plugins I use as well. Aside from running faster and its distinctive application icon, it could just as well be Firefox 3.5b. Find out more here.?


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