Linuxfest Northwest 2008 Report
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| For those unfamiliar with the Linuxfest Northwest, it is an annual, two-day
| event held at Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Washington on the
| last weekend in April. It has become a hub of Linux activity in the Northwest
| with several of the Washington area Linux Users Groups supporting it.
| Visitors seem to come from all over the country especially those places that
| don't have a Linux conference anywhere near them. I also attended the LFNW
| last year so a bit of this review compares this year with last.
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http://www.montanalinux.org/linuxfest-northwest-2008-scottsreport.html
about:mozilla - Mitchell’s keynote, Firefox in Europe, AMO changes, Marketing
news, Firefox bookmarks, and more
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| On April 24th, Mitchell Baker gave a keynote talk at the Web 2.0 conference.
| Doug Turner has written up some of the highlights, and provides an embedded
| video of the talk on his weblog. From the talk: “[T]here is only one web.
| Firefox is the best and most effective platform for getting to that one web.
| We are building Firefox for mobile to spark innovation and excitement. We
| need an open web based development platform to do this. We view Firefox as
| this platform.”
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http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/04/29/aboutmozilla-mitchells-keynote-firefox-in-europe-amo-changes-marketing-news-firefox-bookmarks-and-more/
Firefox 3 improves handling of invalid SSL certificates
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| I have downloaded the beta of Firefox 3 to check out the improvements related
| to SSL. First, there's the added support for Extended Validation SSL
| certificates, but I am not very excited about that (I wrote about this
| previously in Extended Validation SSL certificates not going anywhere, as
| predicted). It's a nice feature, but it's not going to bring much good
| overall. On the other hand, I am very happy with the improvements to the
| handling of invalid SSL certificates.
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http://blog.ivanristic.com/2008/04/firefox-3-ssl-i.html
Recent:
Firefox reached 29% share in Europe
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| XiTi Monitor has released the latest numbers on browsers utilization in
| Europe and the rest of the world, announcing it has reached about 29% in
| March 2008.
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/04/firefox-reached-29-share-in-europe/
Recent:
'We're Huge in Finland!' Firefox Hits New High as IE7 Lags
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| Mozilla Firefox continued its slow but steady march against the worldwide
| dominance of Microsoft Internet Explorer in 2007. Though the open-source web
| browser continues to sit firmly in second place behind IE, where it's been
| for years, usage of Firefox is still on the rise. The browser is even
| threatening to tip the scales in some European countries -- most likely
| thanks to the rapid internationalization efforts made possible by the
| open-source development model.
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http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/01/firefox-made-wo.html
Related:
Microsoft's browser market share drops 9.5 percent in a year
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| Microsoft Explorer's share of the browser market has fallen almost 10 percent
| in the past 12 months, to 63.9 percent, mostly at the expense of Firefox
| which has boosted its share from 11.8 to 17.4 percent.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14373/1054/
Firefox passes 400 million downloads
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| Firefox just passed the 400 million download mark, according to the Spread
| Firefox site for promoting the open-source, extendable Web browser.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9773836-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
IE6: The zombie browser
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| Paul Graham's much-dissected essay Microsoft is Dead offers some witty and
| perceptive analysis, but it sidesteps the fact that Microsoft's rotten corpse
| will take decades to decompose.
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http://blogs.pathf.com/agileajax/2007/09/ie6-the-zombie-.html
IE7 Bites the Dust! Firefox 2.0 Did It!
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| In the same three months, Internet Explorer 7 only managed to move up from
| 32.02% to 33.15% and to 33.55%, meaning that in the past two months IE7 only
| jumped 1.53%.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/IE7-Bites-the-Dust-Firefox-2-0-Did-It-64490.shtml
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