Mozilla Labs has introduced Jetpack, a new Firefox extension that adds a new programming interface (API) developers can use to create innovative and relatively light enhancements (called features). As example, Mozilla Labs presented a feature that can hide ads, based on adblockplus.org’s list of well known ad banners providers, similar to the popular AdBlock Plus.

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The latest Firefox 3.5 nightlies now include Mibbit as a bundled IRC protocol web client so now, when clicking on an irc:// (or its encrypted variation, ircs://) link, it will be redirected to Mibbit so you can connect to the desired server using a web interface. Protocol web handlers support was introduced in Firefox 3

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For those inclined to black or dark desktops, here are six nice Firefox themes you want to give a try. Pictured here on Windows XP with the Royal Noir theme for darker effect. All available from Mozilla Add-ons, but for those marked experimental you will need an account. avant.garde.10011:nerom created by Rob Holian. (experimental) Black

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Firefox 3 introduces full page zoom, that is, instead of just making text bigger or smaller, it resizes the full page including images and layout.1. If you just want to zoom text, in the View menu, select Zoom and mark Zoom Text Only. 2. Firefox 3 remembers what zoom level you used for viewing pages

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Pieces keep fitting in for the Firefox 4 theme refresh. Recent development nightlies now feature the planned stop-reload-go button next to the location bar. When the page is loaded, it becomes a reload button.   A stop button while loading. And , if you edit the web address, you get the go button. While it

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Users of 64-bit operating systems who wanted to run a native 64-bit version of Firefox were restricted to those provided by their Linux distribution, or, the Mozilla x86-64 web site, for Windows. However, it seems Mozilla is getting ready to finally provide 64-bit versions as part of its core set of Firefox releases. Mozilla’s John

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Firefox 3.6.4 has finally arrived, and as expected it brings added stability by making Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins run on their own process, so if something goes wrong with them, your whole session will still survive and you will be given an option to reload the plugin. z While Silverlight, Flash,

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With Windows 7 scheduled for general availability in about a week, Mozilla is getting ready to support some of its best known features as they progressively come to Firefox 3.6 nightly development releases. First, tabs can now be previewed from the task bar directly just hovering over the Firefox icon (Namoroka’s in the screenshot). Previews

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One of the new features introduced by Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 (and still present in Beta 2) is WebSlices, a cool feature that lets you subscribe not to a page but to a summarized version of it including images and styling, provided the web developer has defined a way to access it. Not too

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Do you need the forward button? Most likely yes, but it is rarely used compared to the back button, which is the single most used widget in any browser user interface. So it doesn’t make sense to keep it present at all times, stealing focus from its helpful neighbor. To address this, current Firefox nightlies

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Mozilla has confirmed a critical security vulnerability disclosed yesterday by Milworm, that may lead to remote code execution. As it is related to the new TraceMonkey JavaScript optimizer, users can mitigate it by temporarily disabling the optimizer. To do so: Enter about:config in the location bar to access advanced preferences. Look for javascript.options.jit.content and double

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Mozilla plans for Firefox theme update is two-staged. As announced last week, the first stop will be Firefox 3.7, targeted for next year, but there is also some planning for the release after that one, tentatively called Firefox 4, with more incremental changes over 3.7. As we can see, it keeps the new Page and

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Firefox 3 Beta 5, Gran Paradiso’s milestone #13 is here and the list of features and improvement it brings along is pretty long so let’s get started. Oh, for those following Firefox 3 development you may want to jump to the sections marked in green for what’s new in Beta 5. Performance Firefox 3 gets

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Do you know Page Info? It’s a central point for information about the web page you are currently visiting. To reach it just select Page Info in the Tools menu or right click the current web page and select View Page Info. It includes the document type, character encoding, the referring URL, the render mode

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Firefox 4 will feature a significantly updated theme on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. In the last few days significant pieces of the new user interface have started dropping in: The Firefox button (called Minefield in the development builds) gathers the most frequently used menu options in a single point. The button is now

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It turned out that a few weeks were really more like a few minutes. Mozilla Messaging has released the first alpha of Shredder (icon wanted), the code name of Thunderbird 3. As planned, this new release has the main goal of letting Thunderbird users that its email client is alive and healthy and this alpha

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Latest Firefox 3 development release (August 8 nightly) got a couple of small but significant improvements among the usual couple of dozens bug fixes. First, the addition of a resizer to the Customize Toolbar dialog you can add to the toolbar to easily resize the search bar and the location bar, a much requested feature.

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From gaming and TV, 3D is now making the jump to web development and design, thanks to Tilt 3D, a new Firefox extension by Mozilla’s Rob Campbell and Victor Porof. Tilt 3D adds a new menu item to the Web Developer menu (accessible from the Firefox button) that renders a 3D version of the current

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Mozilla has published the Firefox roadmap for 2012, stating what major new features and changes are to be expected this year. It turns out the list is pretty long which hints on a very important year for Firefox development and users. The user interface is due to some pretty enhancements under the new Australis theme

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If you tend to have a large number of tabs open at a time, get ready to experiment considerably faster session restores thanks to cascaded session restore (CSR), an optimized approach that loads a limited number of tabs at a time (3 by default) when Firefox restarts. In recent Firefox 4 nightlies, it prioritizes the

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