Corel has announced that forthcoming versions of its new consumer oriented office suite Corel WordPerfect Office X3 – Home Edition 2007 (US$79) will bundle Mozilla Firefox.“Firefox has a reputation for ease of use, security and user experience that closely mirrors the characteristics that attract customers to Corel WordPerfect Office X3, ” said Richard Carriere, general manager of productivity for Corel.Mozilla Links This news got me wondering has Firefox every been available “off the shelf”? Sure you could order a CD from Mozilla if you didn’t want to download Firefox (I guess if you are using dial-up the 5.6 MB download…

Over the past view days I have noticed the post Firefox 2.0: Close Tab Buttons has been the either most or second most viewed post on my blog.  I have also been getting loads of comments about this post as well.  I’ve noticed from these comments a lot of people don’t like the ‘Close Tab Button’ on every tab as is the standard practice with Firefox 2.  A while back when I first started playing with Bon Echo (Firefox 2) I want to say while it was still in the Alpha builds, I liked having the close tab button on…

This month’s IEEE Spectrum Magazine cover story is The Firefox Kid (Blake Ross). The bulk of the article serves as an introduction to Blake Ross & Joe Hewitt’s joint project, Parakey. Other parts of the article include Blake’s childhood “as part of the first generation to grow up with the Internet.”, how Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox came about and an humorous account of a dinner with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team after Firefox became popular. So you ask, what is Parakey? Here is Blake Ross’s description: “a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do.” Translation: it makes it really easy…

Along with Firefox 1.5.0.8, Mozilla has gone ahead and released Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 today as well. No release notes for this version at this time. Download available from the Thunderbird Product Page.

Mozilla has released the next version in the Firefox 1.5 branch. Per the release notes: Version 1.5.0.8 includes some minor security fixes: MFSA 2006-67 Running Script can be recompiled MFSA 2006-66 RSA signature forgery (variant) MFSA 2006-65 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.8) Also this version will contain the upgrade feature (which for now is inactive) which will allow you to upgrade to Firefox 2. While I have not seen an exact date for this, it likely be around the time Firefox 2.0.0.1 is released (later this year). Still in several places Mozilla clearly states: “All users are strongly…

I mentioned last week in my Colorful Tabs & Firefox 2 post, that Colorful Tabs Extension and Firefox 2 didn’t work well with each others. In the last couple days there as has been a couple new versions/attempts to get Colorful tabs to work correctly with Firefox 2. Version 1.5, released November 4th. This version just bumped the max version up to Firefox 2.0.0.* All. Still no close buttons on the tabs. Version 1.6, released November 5th. Per the release notes “Version 1.5 takes off the close btn from the tab. This has been fixed in v1.6.” So, after updating…

Update Notifier was updated this morning to work with Firefox 2.0 and Thunderbird 2.0Beta1 . This handy little extension automatically checks for updates to your installed (enabled or disabled) extensions and themes and will notify you when there is an update. It also has a ‘restart’ option which is handy when switching themes. Update Notifier 0.1.5.1