Firefox Beats Million-download Deadline
News Decrem said the next few days would bring new initiatives that would deploy Spread Firefox volunteers to market Firefox to a broader audience. There, more than 7,500 volunteers have signed up since Tuesday's launch, and more than a million and a...
[September 21, 2004, 8:00]
Mozilla Plans Thank You Surprise As Firefox Growth Continues
News That fundraising and marketing scheme inspired so many contributions that Mozilla volunteers ran into technical difficulties squeezing all their names onto a single ad. Now, with the unsolicited help of an Adobe Illustrator engineer, the group has...
[December 15, 2004, 7:35]
Jeeves Asking Mozilla For Support
News Key Mozilla volunteers now also work for Google, and the browser showcases Google search in its interface. Ask Jeeves and the Mozilla Foundation have begun discussions on the twin possibilities of a Firefox-based Jeeves browser and of donating...
[February 15, 2005, 11:45]
Mozilla Issues Warnings After Hack Attack
News Mozilla has successfully used the site to mobilise volunteers to popularise the browser through free marketing techniques such as Web site buttons and by collecting money for an ad in The New York Times.
[July 15, 2005, 17:30]
Fledgling Thunderbird Takes On Outlook
News The main difference between Outlook and Thunderbird is that Thunderbird is simply a mail client and doesn't include scheduling facilities built in -- there are currently volunteers working on the Mozilla Sunbird project which will provide...
[December 7, 2004, 12:40]
Behind The Scenes At Mozilla HQ
News Although anyone can apply for these internships, Dotzler said that people who are already active as volunteers in the Mozilla community are preferred. He started working as a volunteer on the Mozilla project four years ago when he was 13, making...
[July 19, 2005, 13:35]
Europe: Endless Speculation About Firefox
Blog Wired's analysis says that this could be due to open source's ability to call on volunteers, meaning that language groups coming well down Microsoft's commercial radar will get their native Firefox long before IE.
[January 29, 2008, 17:06]
Bloggers Give Camino The Thumbs Up
News The Camino Project said that the application has taken "over a year of hard work by devoted volunteers", and offers a number of new features including support for additional Web standards, a new tab appearance and a pause and resume feature in the...
[February 17, 2006, 10:45]
Mozilla: We'll Pay Developers Where We Can
News Sometimes [volunteers] struggle on bad machines, or stay up all hours looking for someone with a Linux machine to test a program. Mozilla's suite, which includes the Firefox Web browser, is partly developed by unpaid programmers, often working in...
[May 25, 2006, 13:10]
Firefox Security Claims Rubbished
Talkback Couple this with the fact that there are thousands of volunteers who are willing to post sescurity flaw fixes straight to the internet (and don't have to wait for marketing driven periodic patch releases), it is obvious that Firefox will continue...
[March 23, 2005, 13:34]
Firefox' Growth Starts To Slip
Talkback Kudos to the Firefox/Mozilla developers, most of whom are volunteers I believe. And of more importance, if my websites mesely statistics are anything to go by (which they aren't but I have read the people in the know agree) that unlike most newly...
[March 2, 2005, 12:16]
Firefox Achieves 100 Million Downloads
News Thousands of volunteers help spread the word about the browser, participate in free support forums and discussion lists, and scour its code for flaws. Just shy of Firefox's first birthday party, the Mozilla Foundation celebrated the 100 millionth...
[October 20, 2005, 9:45]
IBM Hunts Firefox Coders
News Google has fuelled speculation about its own interest in producing a Web browser by recruiting aggressively from Mozilla Foundation staffers and volunteers. In the newest indication that Firefox has become mainstream, IBM is trying to hire...
[April 14, 2005, 8:50]
Firefox: Doing It For Love
News He coordinates over 100,000 marketing volunteers who have signed up to the SpreadFirefox Web site and was one of the original brains behind many of the high-profile advertising campaigns. The Mozilla Foundation is envied throughout the software...
[July 19, 2005, 14:05]
Firefox Races Past 50 Million Mark
Talkback Even the coins themselves were designed by one of our most talented volunteers, graphics designer Jamey Bojé, and are minted courtesy of CoinsForAnything.http://www.spreadfirefox.com/fifty.html Thanks to the hundreds of you who have regaled us with...
[May 3, 2005, 14:21]
Mozilla Expands As Firefox Ploughs On
News The milestone provides at least a psychological boost to the foundation's volunteers and staffers, who have watched growth rates slip this year amid a string of security problems. As it marked the 75 millionth download of its Firefox Web browser...
[July 27, 2005, 13:25]
Firefox Plans Mass Marketing Drive
News As the videos are likely to be posted in many languages, Mozilla will use international volunteers to filter the videos. The Mozilla Corporation is gearing up to launch a large-scale marketing drive when Firefox 1.5 is released.
[November 22, 2005, 14:40]
Firefox's New Year Resolution: Keep Growing
News A similar group existed at Netscape before Mozilla's spin-off, and Mozilla has continued its work using volunteers since then. Forty-five days and some 13 million downloads after its official release, Mozilla's Firefox browser is showing undeniable...
[December 27, 2004, 8:05]
Things Your PC Never Volunteers
Blog Comment Use Firefox Top post. Building a web based business application, we sometimes (more often than I'd like! come across clients that are not familiar with a browser environment. Great. So where do you go from there?
[October 24, 2008, 19:01]
