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| May 10, 2016 | Mozilla launches Test Pilot, a Firefox add-on for trying experimental new features | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mozilla today launched Test Pilot, a program for trying out experimental Firefox features. To try the new functionality Mozilla is offe... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | First Look: Mobile Concepts For Mozilla's Raindrop Platform | A couple of weeks ago, Mozilla Labs presented a prototype of Raindrop, a new experimental open-source e-mail and digital communication platform that aimed to make your inbox personal again.
It’s been quiet at the Raindrop blog since the ann... |
| Nov 2, 2009 | Google's Wave Concept More Important Than The Product | Many people, including my colleague Michael Hickins, have been writing about the importance of Google's Wave to the company and to businesses. But I'd disagree. It's not the product itself, which is being hit with decidedly mixed reviews du... |
| Oct 26, 2009 | First look: inside Mozilla’s Raindrop messaging platform | reader comments 24 with 22 posters participating
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Mozilla Messaging, the organization behind the Thunderbird e-mail program, has introduced a new open source messaging aggre... |
| Oct 23, 2009 | Mozilla Raindrop to absorb Web conversations | From the team that developed Thunderbird comes a new messaging application designed for an open Web
"Raindrop is not another email client."
If you watch this video, in which Mozilla Labs design lead Bryan Clark introduces Raindrop... |
| Oct 22, 2009 | Mozilla's Raindrop Looks To Make Your Inbox Personal Again | Mozilla Labs, Mozilla’s innovation group, has developed a new open-source, experimental email and communication platform called Raindrop. Mozilla says that Raindrop was built to be focused on highlighting and breaking out personal conversat... |
| Aug 20, 2009 | Bespin cloud editor gains collaborative editing feature | reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating
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Mozilla Labs has released a new version of Bespin, an open source integrated development environment (IDE) that is designed t... |
| Jul 7, 2009 | Mozilla Aims To Centralize All Open Web Tools In One Directory | Mozilla says there’s no central index for tools built to help web developers do their jobs (and/or hobby projects) better, so it set out to build one of its own. Located at tools.mozilla.com and dubbed the Open Web Tools Directory, the orga... |
| Jun 24, 2009 | Firefox’s Ubiquity Starts Thinking for Itself | Ubiquity, the experimental Firefox add-on that lets you tell your browser what to do by typing in natural language commands, has just been updated to version 0.5. This preview release adds support for more languages, which is great news for... |
| Jun 11, 2009 | Mozilla's Jetpack .2 Gets A Boost From The Future | Last month Mozilla introduced us to Jetpack, a new project from its Labs team that could well change the way browser extensions are installed over the next few years. The project is still in early stages — its blog describes it as primarily... |
| Jun 10, 2009 | GeeksOnAPlane Meet Tokyo 2.0, Learn About The Relation Between The Web & Language | The GeeksOnAPlane Asia tour kicked off on Monday in Tokyo, with the group of mostly US-based geeks leaving today for Beijing. Former TechCrunch employee Mark Hendrickson already shared his views on the Japanese tech scene from an American p... |
| Jun 7, 2009 | Hands-On Review Of Jolicloud, The iPhonesque OS For Netbooks | Founder and former CEO of Netvibes Tariq Krim is moving forward with his ambitious Jolicloud project, looking to build a better operating system for web workers with netbooks (or smartbooks or cloud computers, whichever term you prefer). A ... |
| May 21, 2009 | Making Firefox extensible by you just became simple | When you're a developer with Mozilla Labs or another open source laboratory, one of the things you'll often find yourself doing is "launching" a project before it's anywhere near complete. That's what it means to be truly open. In... |
| Apr 23, 2009 | Google Continues To Center On Location. Adds It To Its Toolbar. | Location-based services haven’t yet caught fire, but location itself is increasingly finding its way to web services as a complimentary feature. The latest to use it is the Google Toolbar. If you have it installed, and open Google Maps, it ... |
| Mar 31, 2009 | Mozilla Weave Now Lets You Sync Your Mobile Browser Too | Today, Mozilla Labs released the 0.3 version of Weave, its project that syncs multiple browsers in the cloud. Weave lets users sync their bookmarks, tabs, passwords, and histories in the cloud across Firefox browsers on different computers.... |
| Mar 31, 2009 | Make Your Firefox Browser Look Better With Mozilla Labs' Latest Skins | Mozilla Labs is debuting new personas today – extensions that add lightweight themed skins to your Firefox browser – enabling you to personalize your user experience according to your mood without interrupting your browsing sessions. The Pe... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | Mozilla Labs Plays With Circle Of Sites Design To Fill Blank New Tabs | Mozilla Labs is experimenting with a design for a new tabs page in the Firefox browser that will show a circle of the top sites you visit that is reminiscent of the circle of friends design you see on many mobile phones. (Except, who needs ... |
| Mar 13, 2009 | Yahoo's Fire Eagle Soars Onto Facebook, Firefox | This morning Yahoo has released a pair of new applications that tap into Fire Eagle, Yahoo’s ambitious geo-location system that allows a wide variety of web services to share your location data (after being granted permission to do so). The... |
| Mar 13, 2009 | Yahoo brings location to Facebook, Firefox; plays catchup | reader comments 4 with 4 posters participating
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Yahoo on Friday put a fresh new spotlight on Fire Eagle, its "project" that dabbles in location-based services (LBS... |
| Mar 9, 2009 | Hands-on with Mozilla Labs’ new tab prototypes | reader comments 20 with 14 posters participating, including story author
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Mozilla Labs has released an experimental Firefox extension that brings new functionality to blank ... |
| Feb 19, 2009 | Mozilla’s Bespin project encourages experimentation | reader comments 10 with 10 posters participating
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We recently looked at Bespin, a browser-based IDE prototype developed by Mozilla Labs. The project has attracted a lot of a... |
| Feb 13, 2009 | IDE in the cloud: Mozilla Labs’ browser-based IDE prototype | Bespin, a web-based code editor
Mozilla Labs reader comments 12 with 12 posters participating
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Mozilla Labs has launched a new project called Bespin that provides a browser-... |
| Jan 16, 2009 | Mozilla releases Ubiquity update | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Mozilla Labs announced on Wednesday a major update to Ubiquity, a browser extension that provides users with a clever context-s... |
| Oct 8, 2008 | The latest Mozilla Labs add-on ties presence to location | Mozilla on Tuesday launched another new experimental Firefox plug-in that adheres to the nascent W3C specification for geolocation APIs, and that's built to understand and manage users' location information.
Mozilla Labs' new Geode add-on c... |
| Oct 7, 2008 | Mozilla Labs launches geolocation extension | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Mozilla Labs has announced the availability of Geode, an experimental Firefox extension that implements the W3C Geolocation Spe... |
| Oct 7, 2008 | Mozilla Geode Released With Support From Pownce and Fire Eagle | Mozilla has posted more information about Geode, the Labs plugin we foreshadowed yesterday that helps websites detect your current location. Geode is also now available for download here.
Geode is a forerunner to Firefox’s future implementa... |
| Oct 6, 2008 | Geode: The New Geo-Tagging Project From Mozilla Labs | Update: More information has been released here.
Tomorrow Mozilla will launch a new geotagging project called Geode into Mozilla Labs that promises to leverage your physical location to enhance your overall browsing experience. More details... |
| Sep 16, 2008 | Adobe AIR for Linux evolves | The Linux version of Adobe AIR, a platform for developing and running Internet applications that run on your desktop, is now available in beta testing mode. That means Adobe is getting closer to a full launch of AIR on the Linux operating s... |
| Aug 27, 2008 | Ubiquity prototype lets users take command of Firefox | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Mozilla Labs has released the first working prototype of Ubiquity, a natural-language command-based shell for the Firefox web b... |
| Aug 27, 2008 | Mozilla Labs’ Aza Raskin talks about the big picture for Ubiquity | Mozilla, the company behind the popular Firefox browser, just announced a very cool project that’s in the early stages of development — Ubiquity, a tool that allows users to access services like mapping, translation and search on any websit... |
| Aug 27, 2008 | Raskin's next Mozilla experiment: an even smarter address bar | Shouldn't a Web browser eventually be capable of responding to natural-language commands -- not the Web site, but the browser? Today, the son of legendary developer Jef Raskin launches a project to explore that question.
One of the most lau... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. Mozilla Labs Launches Ubiquity. | Aza Raskin at Mozilla Labs thinks there’s got to be an easier way to create Web mashups. Today, he is announcing the launch of Ubiquity, an experiment in using natural language to invoke Web services. Ubiquity is an extension to the Firefox... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | Build your own mashups with Mozilla’s Ubiquity | Mozilla just announced that it wants to make the Internet more useful by allowing users to use any service they want anywhere on the web. It’s an impressive goal, with an impressive name — Ubiquity. Basically, Mozilla’s Firefox browser was ... |
| Aug 9, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 4-8 August 2008 | It’s the weekend, so time for our review the past week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we showed you how to create a custom search engine using social bookmarks, found out why online video is set f... |
| Aug 8, 2008 | Mozilla Labs considers grafting IM onto Firefox | Download Snowl 0.1 alpha from FileForum now.
When a company's lab typically comes forth with an idea for the general public, it already has a proposition in mind for why that idea is necessarily good. This morning, one of Mozilla Labs' late... |
| Aug 7, 2008 | Mozilla’s “Snowl” hunts Twitter, RSS, and (soon) e-mail | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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The web is an increasingly chatty place. Between following comment threads, checking in with friends on Twitter, reading a few ... |
| Aug 6, 2008 | Mozilla: Tell us how you see the future of Web browsing | With new versions of Firefox adding welcome features but no radical changes to the way people live and work, its producers are wondering whether the general public may have better ideas about Firefox' future than their own engineers.
After ... |
| Aug 4, 2008 | Adaptive Path Releases Aurora To "Inspire And Engage" Community | Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
Adaptive Path, a product development and consulting service in San Francisco, is releasing a new web interface concept called Aurora this evening. The project, which was developed in collaboratio... |
| Jul 25, 2008 | Hands on: Yahoo misses mark with Zimbra Desktop office suite | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Yahoo leads the e-mail market with over 250 million users, many of whom, by extension, probably use its other productivity apps... |
| Jul 8, 2008 | Mozilla: Firefox is our RIA platform | "This is where we think the future of the Internet is going -- you can start to see these applications breaking out of the confines of the browser space, and try to move onto the desktop," a key Mozilla engineer told BetaNews.
The... |
| Jun 10, 2008 | Safari 4 to include SSB feature and fastest JavaScript ever | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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According to a report by Mac Rumors, developers are already playing around with early builds of the next major version of Safar... |
| May 14, 2008 | Mozilla CEO John Lilly Reveals More Details On Stealth Data Project | Mozilla CEO John Lilly revealed more details of their stealth Data project today, which we first reported here.
In a blog post, he says “data is one of the most important pieces to faciliate understanding (and innovation), and is also one o... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | Bridging Desktop And Web Applications, Part 2 | The following, written by guest writer Matthew Gertner, is a follow up to his post Bridging Desktop And Web Applications – A Look At Mozilla Prism on March 22, 2008.
Matthew was a co-founder and CTO of startup AllPeers before it shut down e... |
| Mar 22, 2008 | Bridging Desktop And Web Applications – A Look At Mozilla Prism | New platforms like Adobe Air and Mozilla Prism are evolving that combine the benefits of Internet flow with the flexibility and power of desktop applications. They are part browser, part desktop app and are extremely efficient for certain t... |
| Mar 11, 2008 | Hands on: Mozilla’s new Prism brings web sites to the desktop | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Mozilla Labs last week released a new version of Prism, a single-site browser system that brings web applications to the deskto... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | The New Browser War: Mobile Firefox vs. Opera Mini | Last October, Mozilla announced that they were working on a mobile version of the Firefox browser. As it turns out, they were working on two versions: one designed for touchscreen devices like the iPhone and another for traditional phones. ... |
| Jan 7, 2008 | Mozilla, parent of Firefox, sees leadership change | Mozilla, the Silicon Valley company that runs the popular browser Firefox, said John Lilly (pictured below), its chief operating officer, has become chief executive.
The move comes after steady growth of market share by Firefox, which now h... |
| Jan 2, 2008 | Mozilla’s Weave, lets you save bookmarks, passwords across Web | Mozilla recently launched a new online service called Weave. Weave allows you to store settings and other data so that it can be used across multiple devices. For example, you can save your personal bookmarks in Weave (it is saved on a Mozi... |
| Dec 27, 2007 | Browser Wars Resume as Microsoft, Firefox Prep Updates | News Browser Wars Resume as Microsoft, Firefox Prep Updates
Firefox 3 Beta 2 hits in time for the holidays; Microsoft queues up IE 8 beta for first half '08. By Barbara DarrowDecember 27, 2007 The browser wars ain't over.
Microsoft is queui... |
| Dec 27, 2007 | Browser Wars Resume as Microsoft, Firefox Prep Updates | News Browser Wars Resume as Microsoft, Firefox Prep Updates
Firefox 3 Beta 2 hits in time for the holidays; Microsoft queues up IE 8 beta for first half '08. By Barbara DarrowDecember 27, 2007 The browser wars ain't over.
Microsoft is queui... |
| Dec 24, 2007 | Hands on with Mozilla Weave: Personalize your own cloud | reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating
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On Christmas Eve, we're playing with Mozilla's new Labs project called Weave, a web service platform for users to sync variou... |
| Dec 22, 2007 | Mozilla Expands Its Universe With Weave | Mozilla is expanding its universe today, moving beyond desktop software products like Firefox (browser) and Thunderbird (email) and into cloud territory – web services.
The initiative, Weave, is a new project that will store user informatio... |
| Dec 17, 2007 | Personas from Mozilla Labs give Firefox a sleek coat | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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In May, Mozilla Labs vice president Chris Beard developed Personas, an experimental Firefox add-on for lightweight theming. The... |
| Oct 26, 2007 | 'Prism' runs web apps from the desktop with ease | Mozilla Labs has created a really easy way to run any web site in its own separate window. Some people may find this useful and some may ask "what’s the point?".
Well, for instance, I’m currently running Prism on a multiple monito... |
| Oct 26, 2007 | Mozilla Looks to Bring Web Apps to Desktop | Mozilla is working on a new application called "Prism," which will help to blur the line further between applications for the web and the desktop.
Prism lets popular Web services such as GMail and others be used just like a normal... |
| Aug 14, 2007 | Mozilla Labs reveals animated PNG editor for Firefox | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Support for animated PNG (APNG) images is one of many compelling new features in Firefox 3. Although the feature has been suppo... |
| Apr 4, 2007 | Mozilla Dabbles in Social Networking | Mozilla Labs has begun work on a new feature called The Coop, aimed at adding social networking capabilities to the Firefox browser. The application could be used to share a variety of Web content.
In a blog post introducing the new project... |
| Apr 4, 2007 | Mozilla social network add-on flies the coop | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Social networking tools are being integrated into every facet of our Internet lives, whether we like it or not. The latest evid... |
| Apr 4, 2007 | Mozilla releases The Coop — social networking in your browser | The Coop is a new social networking feature by Mozilla, which will let users of its Firefox browser keep track of what their friends are doing online, and share content with them.
It will integrate with web services, using data feeds so tha... |
| Apr 3, 2007 | Mozilla To Build Social Networking Into Firefox: Bad News For Flock | Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock (also built on Mozilla), which i... |
| Nov 29, 2006 | Firefox Summit 2006 and TV Flicks | A few weeks ago, Firefox contributors from around the world met at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View, CA for the Firefox Summit 2006. Below is a link to the Agenda and Proposed Sessions.
Sadly I couldn’t go but last week I met Ian Haywa... |
