Mozilla

It's not uncommon for me to download numerous tools over a period of time while I'm online. Today I had spent the last few hours reading blogs, checking twitter, downloading a few SEO tools, and so forth. All of a sudden I notice that all of my links are highlighted in red!

Annoyed, because it was happening on every page no matter where I went, I did a little research and found the answer: The SEO toolbar I downloaded defaulted the setting that had caused this highlighting occurrence. If this has happened to you, the fix is simple:

Go to Tools/SEO for Firefox/Options. The setting is 'nofollow links.' Click the box "enable/disable highlighting." Refresh your page, and the links should go back to normal.

"With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do."

Yesterday Mozilla Lab launched Ubiquity, an interactive search tool that takes web usability to another level.

Ubiquity is in version 0.1, so it's okay to be skeptical. Sometimes you want to wait until the Company knocks out all the bugs (i.e. iPhone), or until enough buzz is created around it that you have to see what's all about (i.e. Twitter), but you don't have to this time. Jump on the train before it leaves the platform.

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo

The opera web browser is the flagship product of Opera Software. It is a web browser that competes directly for market share with Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and other popular web browsers. It has historically had a minuscule share of the browser market, in part due to its price and partly because it has no way of persuading users; which are satisfied with whatever comes on their computer out of the box. Opera has a very robust version of its web browser for PDAs, cell phones, and other hand held devices called Opera mini.

A web browser is the informal name for a piece of software that can request and display text multimedia from the World Wide Web. The most common web browsers are internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari for OS-X users. They are all designed to display information on a large graphical monitor, but other web browsers have been specially developed to display textual information only render small screen versions for PDAs or speak the information aloud to a person who has vision problems.

Download Day 2008 has been launched by Mozilla Firefox to beat the Guinness Book of Records for most downloads in one day. Their goal is to reach 5 million downloads. As of 4:08pm CST the total number of downloads is 2,623,432. There is even a map of total region downloads and a rollover feature for each country's total downloads. Sleek.

There are over 15,000 new features in Firefox 3, including:

• One-click bookmarking
• "Awesome Bar" which recommends sites that you have visited before
• Better security
• Easy to use password management
• Simplified add-on installation
• Improved performance of speed and memory usage

Mozilla's open source project started back in 1998. Today it's known as Mozilla Corporation. The Company has over 800 code contributors, supports 35 languages, and has 3 affiliates in China, Europe and Japan.