As expected, Mozilla has released the first Extended Support Release of Firefox, based on Firefox 10, for organisations. The release is the culmination of what began as complaints from the enterprise community that the rapid release schedule of Firefox was leaving them unable to qualify Firefox for use within their organisations. Mozilla reactivated its Enterprise [...]

We’re starting off 2012 by releasing MPL 2.0, the updated version of the Mozilla Public License.  Here are the details about MPL 2.0.  The MPL was created as part of the launch of the Mozilla project in 1998, and was updated once in 1999.  The MPL is used by the Mozilla project for much of [...]

Mozilla has announced the arrival of version 9.0 of its open source Thunderbird news and email client. The update is based on the new Gecko 9 rendering engine and adds support for theming in the compose and address book windows using Personas, which are lightweight skins. Other changes include better keyboard support for handling attachments, and [...]

We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years. “Under this multi-year agreement, Google Search will continue to be the default search provider for hundreds of millions of Firefox users [...]

Right on the steps of Firefox 8, comes Thunderbird, based on the same underlying Gecko rendering engine, this update comes with a handful of  important enhancements: Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default New Search and Find Shortcuts Improved accessibility of the attachment list Folder switching pane widget removed Numerous platform [...]

Mozilla’s State of Mozilla report and Financial StatementPDF for 2010 show the non-profit foundation’s revenue, including its “for-profit” subsidiaries, rose to $123 million, up 18% from 2009′s $104 million, while expenses grew from $61 million to $87 million. The annual report says that the Foundation is facing a new set of challenges now, as competition [...]

The SeaMonkey project is proud to present SeaMonkey 2.4: The new major release of the all-in-one Internet suite is available for download now! Building on the same Mozilla platform as the newest Firefox release, it delivers the latest developments in web technologies such as HTML5, hardware acceleration and improved JavaScript speed. SeaMonkey 2.4 is available [...]

While some users are struggling with the fact that a new version of the free Firefox browser is released every six weeks, the developers have been discussing an even shorter release cycle. A thread on a mailing list revolves around whether to shorten the cycle to five weeks or less. On the mailing list, Josh [...]