Some folks, including myself do not like the tab overflow feature that was added to Firefox 2. For those of you who are not familiar with this feature when the width (in pixels) of the tabs becomes less than set amount (default is 100 pixels) Firefox will add scroll buttons to each end of the tab bar (see sample here). The purpose of this feature was so that all the tabs open will have a minimum width of 100 pixels. At 100 pixels the tabs are still relatively readable. It is important to understand that tab-overflow does not kick-in when…

For quite some time, Firefox 3 has been called Minefield. The name Minefield was actually the name of the trunk Firefox 3 is built on, not the project code name. The official project code name for Firefox 3 is Gran Paradiso, named after a mountain group located in Italy.

Final version still a year away, developers say. Mozilla today hit an early milestone on the road to the next version of its open-source browser, but the final product is still a year away, developers say. The Mozilla team released its first alpha release of Firefox 3.0 today, giving Firefox and Web application developers an early look at the next-generation browser. This release is not intended for regular users, not even those who like to play around with early versions of a product, Mozilla said. News Source: PC World

I had first learned of the news about the Kim family being missing in Oregon from a posting on Mozilla Links shortly after the family went missing on November 29th. I had also had heard about this on the local news, although I didn’t connect the two stories since the local media never mentioned he was a CNet Editor. On Tuesday, December 5th there was renewed hope as his wife and two daughters were found alive and well, however James was still missing. Sadly on Wednesday, December 6th, searchers found the body of James Kim in a rugged wilderness area…

I have had a few folks ask, “So Guru, what’s new with Firefox 3?” To be honest not a lot, there are a couple minor changes such as Advanced Microsummaries, Acid 2 Compliant and is being built on Gecko 1.9. However, I really couldn’t think of anything else. There is good reason for this, according to Mozilla Links: Firefox 3 Alpha 1 is also in Release Candidate status and expected in the next 2-3 weeks. It won’t feature any of the improvements expected for Firefox 3 like Places, the integrated bookmarks and history management interface, the Cairo graphics engine, not…

Firefox 2.0.0.1 is going to be released soon (December 14th?). If you are curious as to what kind of fixes are in this build check out the Firefox 2.0.0.1 fixlist. There are currently about 180+ fixes (landings): General Landings — 99 DOM Landings — 11 Layout Landings — 16 RSS Landings — 6 JavaScript Engine Landings — 50

Our buddy Ryan at CyberNet News has way too much time on his hands which why we suspected something was up when he wasn’t posting much on the blog or the discussion forum on Tuesday. Well we learned today what he was up to, a little experiment he called Firefox 200. Ryan went through the Mozilla Extension (Firefox Add-Ons) page and installed the top 200 extensions. His article has several screenshots including the extensions list, toolbars and the Firefox ‘Tools’ menu. Surprisingly his Firefox stood up fairly well to his ‘extensions hurricane’. Warning: If you want to “try this at…

We are moving a step closer to the next milestone for Thunderbird 2, the Beta 1 release. Release Candidate for beta 1 is now available in en-US build only via Mozilla FTP Server. Estimated release date for Thunderbird 2.0b1 is December 14th. News Source: mozillaZine Forums Thunderbird Builds