The Firefox extension Showcase changes the way tabs are handled in the Internet browser. It’s main feature is the ability to display thumbnails of all open websites in a overlay window in the web browser which makes it dead easy to locate and access the websites.

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Mozilla’s policy on obtaining commit access to our main mercurial and cvs repositories has been updated. The discussion leading to this can be found in mozilla.governance (via a newsgroup reader or via Google Groups). The revised policy has been posted and is official as of today. A log of the changes can be found in the appropriate bugzilla bug, for those who follow bugzilla

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The ability to completely customize your browser with thousands of add-ons is one of the best features of Firefox, and highlights the talent, dedication, and innovation of our great community. With thousands of add-ons and close to 1.5 billion downloads, Mozilla has been working hard this year to provide a great experience for both add-on users and developers.

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Firefox extension Text Area Resizer & Mover does just what the name implies—but with a powerful set of options to tweak the controls however you would like.

Once installed, you can resize a text input or textarea box by simply holding the right mouse button and dragging, or actually drag the text box somewhere else on the page by holding the left button and dragging at the corners.

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Chris Blizzard and the Mozilla evangelism team recently launched a site called hacks.mozilla.org, devoted to showing off a variety of Firefox 3.5 demos over the next 35 days. Although the demos are undoubtedly extremely cool, my personal favorite thing about the site is the throwback-style design by Mozilla Labs’ Sean Martell.

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Mozilla is putting the finishing touches to a program that will allow enterprises to build customised versions of the Firefox browser.
Once the custom browser is developed, the application will send it to the company with an installation program that makes it possible to install the browser across multiple desktops, according to Mozilla.
The Build Your Own Browser program is Mozilla’s first assault on Microsoft’s stranglehold on the enterprise market.

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Firefox 3.5 preview release
The 800,000+ users of Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 will be receiving an update to a “Firefox 3.5 Preview” release in order to assist us with further testing and feedback. This update contains many fixes for stability bugs, correctness fixes for our JavaScript engine, and improvements to our built-in support for open Ogg based video and audio playback.

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As we all know, Facebook has become a powerful marketing tool…with a growing network of active users, global reach, and built-in viral features that offer loads of benefits to brands. Recognizing the untapped potential within our own fan Page, we’ve recently invested resources towards making it into a more engaging space and a stronger communication channel with the community.

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The upcoming Build Your Own Browser program will let companies customize Firefox 3.5 and install it across multiple desktops.

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You can’t grab it directly, but Mozilla is releasing a “Preview” of its long-awaited Firefox 3.5 release. Download Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 and hit the Help->Check for Updates menu, and you’ll move up to the “Preview” release—not quite a Release Candidate, but somewhere up from betas. As for the Preview itself, it contains stability and JavaScript fixes, better support for Ogg-coded audio and video, and a few other efficiencies.

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