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Firefox-Based Start-Up Gets Off The Ground
rudy_wayne writes "ZDNet is reporting that a new version of the Firefox Web browser is coming your way, but not from the Mozilla Foundation. 'When we launch our own services, in about a month or so, we'll be looking to offer the must-have companion to Firefox,' said Bart Decrem, Round Two CEO and a former staffer at the Mozilla Foundation. 'We see tremendous room for innovating on top of the Mozilla and Firefox platform, and we see ourselves as the first company outside of the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation that's fully dedicated to serving Firefox users.'
Round Two planned a corporate launch Monday night with the promise of bringing 'a new crop of products and services that will enhance your Firefox experience.'"
Well his last company, eazel (who developed nautilus) didn't last long either
I hope they have some good ideas for innovations. But if they do, MS will eat them into their `free' browser and subsequently shut down this start up.
I know I'm not paying for any of those.
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Hey, Got any Chicken Shit? It is really good for the garden, and not so easy to come by any more around here. It is considered such a potent fertilizer that one should not use too much of it, or it will "burn" the roots of your more delicate plants....
Bart Decrem was actually one of the founders/maintainers of SpreadFirefox.com. He left a week ago or so.
The in-store version of Netscape included an HTML editor. The browser was always free.
I still run Mosaic on my NeXT machine...
The commercial Wine forks are able to use restricted licenses because Wine used to be licensed under a BSD-type license. Though Wine is now licensed solely under the GNU LGPL, the commercial versions used a BSD licensed version as their code base.
The Mozilla license (MPL) requires availability and redistributability of source code (BSD licenses do not). It seems legal, though, with a program under the LGPL or MPL, to create and not provide source for add-ons which can run with unmodified binaries (or modified binaries with source code available).
Well, it has, but you have to _read_ the whole article...
;)
Mozilla development ecosystem. While Round Two--formerly known as MozSource--puts the finishing touches on its own products, the company is sponsoring development of several other Firefox extensions.
Ok, what do we have here? Aight, a companys name, even two since it has renamed itself..
These include FlashGot, which lets Firefox work with third-party download managers; Bandwidth Tester, which lets people determine their connection speed; and SwitchProxy, which lets people surf anonymously with Firefox by configuring Firefox to work with multiple Web proxy servers
Yay! Products!!!111!11!
Round Two also said it was supporting StockTicker, TinyURL Creator, Copy Plain Text, Extension Uninstaller, Lorem Ipsum Content Generator, OpenDownload, Open Long URLs, Search Plugins and Secure Password Generator.
w00t? Even more of them! o_O
As for Round Two's own extensions, Decrem said the company was considering antivirus software to integrate with Firefox.
Oops? Future Plans omgwtfbbq!
So, ask again where the content is
And, to give you some more reading...
http://www.google.com/search?q=MozSource
> When I can have all my "new window" links open in a new tab instead,
m l.en
> firefox will be more of a force.
You can:
http://hemiolapei.free.fr/divers/tabmix/tabmix.ht
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You mean like this?
A publicly traded company exists solely to make profits for shareholders.
Have you tried del.icio.us ("social bookmarks")? I haven't used it, but it might be worth a try. You add bookmarks by selecting a bookmarklet, and view them by visiting a webpage. Not the most integrated, but it's here now and might do the trick at least until real syncronization is available.
Another (too difficult) approach would be to have your Mozilla preferences/bookmarks on an NFS , SMB or other network-mounted partition.
Products and their front page. Pretty website!
While I don't see how they can make money off this either, anybody making money off something like Firefox sounds like not a bad idea. I'll be watching. All the best!
Disclaimer: I'm one of the mods on The Extensions Mirror, which is now hosted by RoundTwo.
Folks, from what I have read on their site, RoundTwo is not appealing to geeks. They're not trying to force geeks to pay for stuff that they can get themselves, i.e. extensions and support and the like. I get the impression that they are offering extension support and bundling for corporations which want to adopt Firefox but also want a centralized entity that they can moan at when it doesn't work.
Their stance of 'adopting' extensions and providing infrastructure for the developers to leverage for that purpose is genius, IMO - it gives the extension authors the resources to improve and maintain their extensions, and it gives RoundTwo a direct line to the authors, which makes it far easier to get the author's attention if something is broken, which is critical if they really intend on creating Firefox 'distributions' with extensions bundled in, like what bdeonline is doing with Black Diamond Firefox.
Sure, they've got the usual amount of marketing jargon out there right now, but considering that they've been supporting Mozilla software for a while now, I suspect that this is going to be the core of their business model.
SCREW THE ADS! http://adblock.mozdev.org/ Proud user of teh Fox of Fire - Registered Linux User #289618
Most of Mozilla is MPL / GPL / LGPL tri-licensed; so if they use the MPL option, they allowed to distribute closed-source software based on Mozilla as long as all hidden code are their own.
Remember - Netscape used to have an AIM component; I'm pretty sure they made sure they won't need to sue themselves...
So yes, it's certainly possible to build a business this way. Hard but possible.
Firefox 1.1 will provide an MSI package.
main(c,r){for(r=32;r;) printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}
you CAN have your "new window" links open in a new tab. just type "about:config" in the address bar (no quotes, obviously) and then in the filter box type "browser.tabs.show" and double click the only entry so that it goes from FALSE to TRUE. Now all you have to do is go into options, advanced, and click force links that open in new window to open in new tab. Simple as that...or you can just dl an extension that will do it for you but it is naitively supported by firefox. If you have problems with it you can even download QuickTabPrefToggle extension to toggle that setting as you wish.
So says ToeNipples
If you don't need all the features of that extension, you can also follow these instructions to reveal Firefox's hidden tab options.
They are not extending the Firefox code directly. These are extensions, which are interfaces that allow you to plug your own code into firefox.
However the code is completely seperate from Firefox.
If I had created the world I wouldn't have messed about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers