

In this issue … Home Tab Design Challenge ErgebnisseAMO: the sandbox SandboxZukünftige extensions ÄnderungenNeue Web Developer Survey Google Summer of Code 2010Menüoption usage study: Part IIZukunft of Personas, 2Kontakte round in the browser Firefox 3.6 upgrade statsStoppen Development for Windows Mobile1000000 Firefox fans and wächstUnterstützung for SeaMonkey 1.x gesunkenSoftware-ReleasesAktuelle event Developer KalenderÜber about: mozillaHome Tab Design Challenge ErgebnisseMozilla labs and Mozilla Firefox User Experience team recently awarded the "Best in Class" awards for the Home Labs' Tab Design Challenge. The recipients are Chatree Campiranon and Craig Birchler, amines Zafri, Yatrik Solanki, Daniel Goodwin, and Blake Cutler. You can follow any messages, the first round of top-10 concepts, the People's Choice Award was given, and all best in class winner of the Design Challenge Seite.AMO: sandbox sandbox "With nearly 2 billion downloads, add-ons have when a large part of our growth strategy and the popularity of Firefox in the last 5 years. As Firefox continues to non-EC technical and mainstream users, safety and consumer experience of installing third party add-ons and more important. be "Justin Scott, with these users in mind his proposal for some major changes to the way blogs have add-ons presented and distributed via the official Mozilla Add-ons Gallery. It is strongly recommended that all the add-on developers take the time to read and give feedback to his Vorschlag.Zukünftige extensions ÄnderungenIm last year, Dave Townsend has been working on a project that relates to re-implement most of the Firefox Extension Manager . Things have progressed well, and Dave is looking at the landing, the first pieces of the soon to Firefox trunk nightlies, and it could affect expansion. "In many cases there will be absolutely no change, the extensions continue working as it builds on previous strain. Those who will do anything to the Add-ons Manager UI to see obvious problems, since the interface has changed significantly. There are also a number of extensions that are likely to see questions about the API changes. "Dave's blog post goes on to describe two common problems they have to go, the developers of extensions in their code ändern.Neue Web Developer UmfrageDie Mozilla hacks team has some of the results known from the developer's survey conducted in November last year given and are looking for more feedback. "Our March survey should take on some of the issues in the November poll. Many of you emphasized the importance of development tools and shows how it is difficult to understand the Firefox development process and offer contributions. We designed this quarter (much shorter) survey specifically for your feedback about Firefox 3.6 and Firebug questions 1.5, both published in January. "Read the results and take the new poll hier.Google Summer of Code 2010Mozilla will again participate in the Google Summer of Code program this year. If you are a student who likes to work with us over the summer, so by starting from our list of projects and prepare to apply. If you have any questions, please contact Gervase Markham and Chris Hofmann.Menüoption usage study: Part II of the draft test pilot team in a recent study on the menu in Firefox. "In the last article we discussed the most and least frequently used menu options. We have found that twisting is a problem with the analysis of aggregate data, the potential for outliers to our results. Today identify outliers at this, we will be out of the aggregate consideration is to examine how they are distributed, one to move. "Read more on the Mozilla blog by Metrics.Zukunft of personas, Round 2Ryan Doherty has posted an update on the team's plans for getpersonas.com, the personas feature in Firefox and the personas Plus add-on. "As mentioned earlier, we are on the migration getpersonas.com addons.mozilla.org (AMO). This includes the redesign of the entire section of AMO personas to make it interactive and engaging. Our plan is to upload and personas on AMO review at approximately the beginning of May. Personas Plus will be continually updated and improved. Our plan is to improve the ability to implement are a person, whereas with a theme in the next version. This has been our number one request. The personas feature in Firefox will continue to develop with each new version. Properties that can work well and are even elevated to the successful Personas Plus add-on in Firefox. "BrowserDie contacts in the Mozilla Labs team has an experimental version of a new shared contacts add-on. "address books and buddy lists are an integral part of how we manage our online relationships. Your e-mail addresses, Twitter openID handle and are in hundreds of ways to get in touch to follow, and to use shares. This information is also special because it is the boundary between "is my data" and "privacy". If you disclose e-mail addresses of your friends on a site that you trust to keep the website that private address. The disclosure of your friends' contact list information is an important step: We should think you have control over it. With the contacts we have your browser by making them increasingly aware of your online contacts and friends lists. You can then search and browse your contacts in the browser and a Web site for permission to ask them through an API access. "Firefox 3.6 upgrade statsMozilla Firefox recently put a 3.6 upgrade offer for people who are still using older versions of Firefox, and the effect is impressive. The Metrics Team blogs about this last week: "The percentage of Firefox users to Firefox 3.6 increased in the last few days. Late last week, the proportion of users was at 3.6 to about 23%, and as of yesterday, their number was increased to 43% (ie 20% translates to pick up about 75 million people in total, which made a change – that's huge! ). Past major update in the ball park offers a total of 10% to 20% of users changed, so has this recent push, in any case had a significant impact. "Stop Read more on Ken's blog post. MobileStuart Parmenter development for Windows, Mozilla's director of Mobile, has blogged focus on an amendment to the recent development of the team. "We have to build a version of Firefox for Windows Mobile for quite a while, in the expectation that Microsoft would be upping the ante in the mobile market and in the hope that they would be put out of a great new mobile operating system. Although we believe that Windows 7 Phone looks from attractive and has the potential to do well in the market, unfortunately, Microsoft has decided to close the development of the native applications. For this reason, we will offer not in a position to Firefox for Windows 7 phone at this time. Because Microsoft's future in the mobile staking is based on Windows Mobile 7 (not 6.5) and because we do not know when or if Microsoft is a native development kit release, we expect our Windows Mobile development on ice. "Read more on Stuart's Weblog.1000000 Firefox fans and wächstTara Shahian has exceeded the most recent and exciting milestone in the Firefox fans 1000000 blogged on our Facebook page. "It was about a year ago that we began providing funds to improve our site and better engagement with the community channel on Facebook. We have a long way since then come … Increase our base of more than 639,400 (~ 177%), and to experience growth rates of 5,000-6,000 per day (and as high as 34,600 +) since January 2010. But these figures alone do not define our success, and in the coming weeks I will be writing more about our social media strategy with Facebook … Dive deeper to talk about how we are our recent findings and plans ahead. "dropped support for SeaMonkey 1.x" The SeaMonkey project moves from support for SeaMonkey 1.x series today in favor of Mozilla 2.0, which not only modern but also to maintain stability and security problems. As the SeaMonkey 1.x series no longer receives security updates, the SeaMonkey team strongly urges users of that series at an upgrade. In addition, the team is really built up the people still with the old Mozilla Suite or Netscape 4, 6 or pushing 7 to upgrade to. All these older software packages suffer from a large and steadily growing, the number of security vulnerabilities because they are no longer maintained. "See Robert Kaiser's writing for more Informationen.Software releases 3.6.2 * Firefox 0.2 * Instantbird Current Events * 26 March – Munich – OpenSource Meetup * 3 April – Taichung, Taiwan – Jetpack Workshop Developer KalenderFür an up-to-date list of the Mozilla project in the coming weeks, the meetings and events, please see the Mozilla Community Calendar wiki page. Notes from previous meetings are mozillaabout through the calendar as well verbunden.Über about: mozilla is by, for and about the Mozilla community, which is important news on all aspects of the Mozilla project. Have the newsletter is written by Deb Richardson, and every Tuesday you Morgen.Wenn no news, announcements, events or releases of software you want to have included in our next issue, please send them to: about-mozilla mozilla. com.Möchten you get this newsletter via e-mail, just head on over to the form of: Mozilla newsletter subscription. Fresh news, every Tuesday with the right mouse button in your inbox.
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Written on 23 March 2010 by Graham Cluley, Sophos
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