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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (openPR) 14 September 2004
The Mozilla Foundation today released a preview release of its new Mozilla Firefox web browser and version 0.8 of Mozilla Thunderbird email client. Mozilla Firefox Preview Release is an innovative, reliable and lightning-fast Web browser that is drawing criticism. Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 is the Mozilla Foundation’s next generation e-mail client. These releases bring Firefox and Thunderbird one step closer to its much-anticipated 1.0 release, scheduled for later this fall.
Together with the new releases, the Mozilla Foundation announced today the launch of Spreadfirefox.com site that will be the hub for the Firefox marketing effort, starting with a push to reach one million downloads of the Firefox Preview Release over the next 10 days. The Foundation also announced the first awards in its new Security Bug Bounty Program, which has already resulted in a number of security enhancements in Mozilla software.
“We are pleased to announce these milestones for Firefox and Thunderbird known,” said Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. “These new versions together with the introduction of the Spreadfirefox.com site and the success of our Security Bug Bounty Program, the power of open source to demonstrate the creative energies of volunteers from around the world to harness.”
New features in the Firefox preview release includes:
Improved pop-up blocker: new pop-up blocker blocks even more pop-ups while at the same time easy to view pop-ups when needed.Security improvements: The new version offers additional protection to users against spoofing attacks, the practice of tricking users into believing they are on a trusted site when they are not. When a user visits a secure site, Firefox now highlights the website address and clearly shows the name of the site. Firefox also includes a number of other security improvements and bug fixes, several of them as part of the new Security Bug Bounty Program of the Mozilla Foundation have been identified.
Live Bookmarks help the users to explore to find a new dimension by the favorites that dynamically display content such as news headlines to create updated. Live Bookmarks allow users to create RSS feeds, a technology that web content providers to easily and spread to use headlines and summaries. RSS feeds are available from thousands of websites, including Yahoo News, BBC.co.uk, CNET News.com and most weblogs.
Plugin Finder Service: Firefox now a plugin finder service, making it a breeze to install plugins, starting with the Macromedia Flash Player for Windows. Additional plugins will be added in the coming weeks.
Improved search in Web pages: Firefox now highlights search terms when the user search for key words within a page.
new in Thunderbird 0.8 include:
Global inbox: POP3 users can now connect all of their POP3 accounts into a single global inbox.Comprehensive data migration: is switching to Firefox has never been easier since Thunderbird can now migrate all of a user e-mail data, including settings, mail folders and address book data from common mail applications such as the Mozilla 1.x Suite, Outlook Express, Outlook and Eudora.
RSS integration: Thunderbird now allows a built-in RSS reader, you can easily subscribe to and read news and weblogs RSS support.
Improved Quick Search: This makes a new version of Thunderbird it even easier to manage your e-mail. Quick Search now supports many different types of search criteria including the ability to search message body text. Thunderbird can also highlight the quick search terms in the message body.
Many safety and performance improvements and bug fixes.
The Mozilla Foundation also released an update to the Mozilla 1.7 suite, the security enhancements in the latest versions of Firefox and Thunderbird.
forThe Mozilla Foundation is riding a wave of users and industry support. Mozilla Firefox 0.9 was downloaded almost 5 million times over the past two months. In August, Firefox received the Best In Show Award at LinuxWorld. In its September issue, Wired Magazine declared Firefox officially “Wired” (and labeled Internet Explorer “expired”), while last week called on both the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, security-conscious users try Firefox.
GETTING FIREFOX Preview Release and Thunderbird 0.8
Firefox Preview Release, Thunderbird 0.8, Mozilla 1.7.3 and can be downloaded for free at www.mozilla.org. Users can also create a CD edition of the Mozilla Foundation’s web site.
Mozilla applications run on a variety of operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and are translated into dozens of languages. The source code and documentation for all Mozilla applications is freely available under the open source Mozilla Public License.
supporting Mozilla
individuals and companies from around the world support the Mozilla Foundation through voluntary contributions of time, money and resources. To find out how you or your company can spread the word about Mozilla Firefox, please visit http://www.spreadfirefox.com.
ABOUT The Mozilla Foundation
in July 2003 with start-up support from America Online Netscape division set up the Mozilla Foundation, organizational, legal and financial support exists for the Mozilla open source software to provide project. The Foundation is based in Mountain View, California with affiliate foundations in Europe and Japan. The Mozilla Foundation is a 501 (c) nonprofit organization. Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, and their respective logos are registered trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation.
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