Mozilla Weave 0.3 : Sync your experience

Weave 0.3 Realeased
Mozilla lab's Weave project aims toincreasing user control over their data and personal information. Meaning synchronize your Firefox experience across multiple browsers including Fennec, so that your desktop, laptop, and mobile phone can all work together. Synchronization of your bookmarks, browsing history, saved passwords and tabs will provide you the same experience across all the browsers.

Sync your experience to :
* Get the same results on the Smart Location Bar on each of your Firefox browsers.
* Open any tab you have open on any of your Firefox browsers.
* Keep the same list of bookmarks on all of your Firefox browsers.
* Easily sign in to all your favorite sites using your saved passwords.
* Do it all securely: Weave Sync encrypts user data before uploading it to Mozilla’s servers, so that only you can access your data
Weave 0.3 adds
* Increased reliability and performance
* Support for mobile browsers via Fennec
* Support for the new 0.3 server architecture
Get involved Install Weave 0.3 (requires Firefox 3.1 beta 3)

Bespin 0.1 : edit HTML in Firefox

Today Mozilla Labs launched an project called Bespin : a web-based code editor to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experience, and promote the use of open standards. Bespin proposes an open extensible web-based framework for code editing.
Proposed features are
* Ease of Use — the editor experience should not be intimidating and should facilitate quickly getting straight into the code
* Real-time Collaboration — sharing live coding sessions with colleagues should be easy and collaboratively coding with one or more partners should Just Work
* Integrated Command-Line — tools like vi and Emacs have demonstrated the power of integrating command-lines into editors; Bespin needs one, too
* Extensible and Self-Hosted — the interface and capabilities of Bespin should be highly extensible and easily accessible to users through Ubiquity-like commands or via the plug-in API
* Wicked Fast — the editor is just a toy unless it stays smooth and responsive editing files of very large sizes
* Accessible from Anywhere — the code editor should work from anywhere, and from any device, using any modern standards-compliant browser
Bespin 0.1 includes support for basic editing features, such as syntax highlighting, large file sizes, undo/redo, previewing files in the browser, importing/exporting projects, etc.

Introducing Bespin from Dion Almaer on Vimeo.
Play around with the demo.
Grab the source code.

Ubiquity : The command line of Firefox

Ubiquity  Firefox Addon : Mozilla Lab says, it's an experiment into connecting Web with Language. and i think it's great tool i have ever seen. It's like talking with Firefox in natural language.
It allows you to do complicated things , which requires lots of clicks and page loads with a single command.
For example for translating selected text from English to Chinese , select the text and press ALT+SPACE (it's shortcut for Ubiquity). Then write command "translate selected english to chinese" press enter and text will be translated to chinese.
Install Ubiquity.
For better understanding take a look at videos by Aza Raskin.














  







Videos by Aza Raskin
Download Ubiquity.

snowl 0.2 : Feeds , Twitter and Web Surf simultaneously

Are you an Twitter addict? and is it preventing you from surfing web? Then this is for you. snowl 0,2 allows messaging and surfing web simultaneously. On 06 Aug 2008 Mozilla Labs introduced snowl.The main intention was to enable web browser help you follow and participate in online discussions.
Snowl is an experiment to answer that question. It’s a prototype Firefox extension that integrates messaging into the browser based on a few key ideas:
1. It doesn’t matter where messages originate. They’re alike, whether they come from traditional email servers, RSS/Atom feeds, web discussion forums, social networks, or other sources.
2. Some messages are more important than others, and the best interface for actively reading important messages is different from the best one for casually browsing unimportant ones.
3. A search-based interface for message retrieval is more powerful and easier to use than one that makes you organize your messages first to find them later.
4. Browser functionality for navigating web content, like tabs, bookmarks, and history, also works well for navigating messages.The initial prototype of snowl supports two sources of messages: RSS/Atom feeds (like Google Reader) and Twitter. Initially they provided two interfaces for reading them.
First, a traditional three-pane “list” view :
















Second, a “river of news” view

Yesterday Mozilla Labs released snowl 0.2 with a new stream view for keeping track of messages in a sidebar while you do other things, the ability to send tweets, and support for multiple Twitter accounts.





















 




Warning: Snowl is in an early development stage with many bugs, and subsequent versions may include changes that break functionality and delete all your messages, making you start over from scratch.

Geode : Firefox add-on

Are you lost? or new in the city? Mozilla can help you.
    Mozilla is working on adding a new addon for Firefox which can tell you not your current location but also information about places near you.
    For this all you have to do is install Geode a Firefox addon (currently in experimental phase).
    Geode supports W3C Geolocation Specification, by which websites like Yahoo! Fire Eagle can request your location if and only if you grant the access. You can provide how much information you want to provide that site like Exact Location, Your Neighborhood , Your City, or Nothing at all. Geode uses Spyhook's Loki Technology to find out your location by mapping WiFi in your area to your location. And then Website can provide you the information about your location and cafes and resaturants around you.
    Mozilla also considering to add Geode in next releases of Firefox 3.1 and Alpha of Funnec browser for mobiles.
Mozilla is not the only one ithis race but Google with it's Google Gears features similar location awreness functionality for websites.
You can tets Gode here and here. But it requires Geode installed and WiFi.

Firefox 3.0.3 released - Some of the fixes

Firefox 3.0.3 contains the following changes after 3.0.1, including 3.0.2 updates :

• Fixed a problem where users were unable to retrieve saved passwords or save new passwords.
• Fixed several security issues.
• Fixed several stability issues.
• Beta releases for Bengali, Galician, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, and Thai are available for testing.
• Fixed a number of minor issues with the layout of certain web pages.
• Fixed several theme issues that affected right-to-left locales.
• Fixed issue that caused some users with customized toolbars to have their Back and Forward buttons go missing.
• Add new Extended Validation (EV) roots in Firefox 3.0.2.
• On certain IDN sites, the password manager would not fill in username and password details properly.
• Fixed several hangs and crashes that occurred when using screen readers.
• Fixed Mac-specific issues:
• Keyboard shortcuts would stop working in some cases.
  
• Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects.
• Firefox 3.0.1 could not be used when the user profile is stored on an AFP directory.

Fox Tab :: Firefox Add ons

FoxTab Firefox add on provides new fascinating and elegant to find and navigate through tabs in Firefox browser.

Fox Tab is designed to suit all type of users by providing five types of layouts.Basic idea is to provide visual appearance of quick switching between
tabs .
There are five basic layouts of tabs
1.Stack - 3d tabs stacked one after another.
2.Wall - Tabs are displayed on walls.
3.Grid - Tabs are aligned on grid.
4.Row - Tabs are aligned horizontally.
5.Circle - Tabs are placed around 3D circle.
Currently Fox Tab available foe Windows only.
Fox Tab can be launched by
1.Alt+Tab i.e. for quick and classic tab switching.
2.Ctrl+Q and click the Fox Tab icon provided on Browser near address bar.
Download Fox Tab here.

Firefox introduces Private Mode

Following chrome ,Firefox is again considering to add private mode to Firefox next 3.1 release.

In private mode all visitor activities like pages visited , searches , etc data discarded after exiting private mode and these pages not kept in history also or no data kept on computer browser.

Chrome released in last couple of weeks included InCognito. Internet Explorer also included InPrivate in IE 8 Beta 2 release.Looks like private is becoming a standard feature of browser and browser war will become more interesting.

Private mode also known as porn mode.First implemented by Safari 2 , three years ago.But there will be more uses rather than porn.In private mode you don't have to worry about leaving private information on someones else's computer or on public computer.With private no need to clear all private data and all history.