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This article was written on January 08, 2008 by CyberNet.

Mozilla’s current CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced on her blog that she will be stepping down. Moving up the ladder is John Lilly, the former Chief Operating Office (COO), who will be fulfilling the duties previously assigned to Baker. From what it sounds like, however, Baker will remain as an active leader in the organization:

I will remain an active and integral part of MoCo. I’ve been involved in shipping Mozilla products since the dawn of time, and have no intention of distancing myself from our products or MoCo. I’ll remain both as the Chairman of the Board and as an employee. My focus will shift towards the kinds of activities described above, but I’ll remain deeply engaged in MoCo activities.

News of the change in roles comes just a little after Mozilla decided to yank a viral website they had posted earlier. The website outlined nearly 1,700 stats for things Firefox users were more/less likely to do than Internet Explorer users. The site, fightagainstboredom.com, was seen as offensive and quickly taken down. Lucky for us a Google Cache of the site was still available and here was some of the text I was able to grab:

Statistics show that Firefox Users are more inclined to have rich, exciting experiences on the web and in everyday life. Others, however, find themselves paralyzed by the death grip of boredom. It’s not their fault. Many are good people who simply got off to a bad start. It’s our duty to show them that the numbers can be in their favor. So spread the word because hope of a more interesting life is only a download away.

Data from Nielsen Online, @Plan, Fall 2007 Release. “Firefox Users” are defined as individuals in the Online 18+ audience who say Firefox is their primary browser. “Internet Explorer Users” are those who use IE as their primary browser

The list of 1,700 items was way too long to post here, but we have uploaded a screenshot of them all for those of you interested. Here are also some highlights from the comparison of Firefox users to Internet Explorer users:

Firefox users are …

• 15% more likely to have watched cartoons on TV within the last seven days.
• 20% more likely to have Dandruff.
• 153% more likely to have purchased adventure games for their computer at home in the last year.
• 243% more likely to have used Google Spreadsheets in the last 30 days.
• 55% more likely to have used their computer to watch streaming video yesterday.
• 7% less likely to play casino video games.
• 102% more likely to have built or updated a web page within the last day.
• 7% less likely to have watched HBO on TV within the last 7 days.
• 189% more likely to have played a multiplayer console game online within the last day.

UPDATE: Someone pointed out that I missed one of the biggest reasons the site was pulled. As it turned out some of the stats they were reporting were in regards to users’ health, such as “38% less likely to live with others suffering from breast cancer”. Some of the users who actually had cancer, as expected, were upset by this.

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Emboldened by the (great) success enjoyed by Opera’s Mini in making it onto Apple’s hallowed iPhone platform, Mozilla has today submitted its own browser implement to the App Store censors. We already knew Firefox Home — a weird sort of incomplete browser that syncs your desktop bookmarks, history, and tabs with the iPhone — was in the works, but now we’re finding the team behind it is so confident of its approval that it’s already promising a guide on how to set it up once it’s approved. We suspect the fact it’ll allow you to shift browsing sessions over to Safari will be looked upon favorably, but there’s no escaping the fact that Firefox Home will still browse the web for you should you wish it. This is going to be a highly entertaining approval process indeed. Your move, Cupertino.

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Our first glimpse of Firefox 4 was limited to a few tasteful mockups; this time, Mozilla‘s main man Mike Beltzner has revealed the company’s plans for its next generation web browser in its entirety. While exact features and dates are sketchy, his presentation reveals Mozilla would like to hold the Firefox 4 beta in June, before unleashing a CSS3, partially HTML5 compliant web browser with multitouch support, background updates, geolocation, Firefox Sync (aka Mozilla Weave) and a greatly streamlined UI this holiday season. The presentation has “PLANS MIGHT CHANGE” written all over it in large red letters, so trust us when we say none of this is for sure, but we like the direction Firefox is going and we’ll be happy to see more. Video presentation at our source link, full slideshow after the break.

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This article was written on January 05, 2008 by CyberNet.

There’s a new app on the block, and it looks as though it may have a very promising future. The open source Spicebird project has its first Alpha release coming up soon, and to tease us they’ve posted a video of what to expect. We’ve outlined all of the features demonstrated in the video below, and provided screenshots from each important aspect of the program.

They haven’t released Spicebird 0.3 Alpha yet, but you can plan on it having a customizable homepage, email, calendar, contacts, and instant messaging all rolled into the application. As time goes on they would like to integrate a way to blog from Spicebird as well as a task manager.

The great thing about Spicebird is that it seems really intuitive. They’ve laid out the various services (email, calendar, etc…) into an already familiar tabbed interface. Take a look for yourself at what Spicebird 0.3 Alpha will have to offer when it is released:

–Homepage–

This is one of the really unique aspects of the program. It’s a customizable homepage that has a handful of modules by default. There’s a module for your inbox, calendar, clocks, feeds, and agenda. You can add multiple copies of each module to your homepage if you would like, such as one for each inbox, and they can be arranged by dragging them around.

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–Email–

Email works just like it does in Mozilla Thunderbird. The nice thing is that it will detect when an event is mentioned in an email, and offer to schedule it for you.  That’s a lot like what Gmail does with Google Calendar.

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–Calendar–

As expected the calendar will completely support the drag & drop creation/management of events. If you’ve used Mozilla Sunbird before you’ll already be pretty familiar with how this works.

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–Contacts–

There’s not a whole lot you can do with a contact list, but this one looks pretty nice.

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–Instant Messenger–

Chatting is rather straight forward, and it looks like for right now it will only work with Jabber accounts. I’m guessing that would mean Google Talk can easily be setup.

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Spicebird [via Lifehacker]

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