The contest to find the best of the extensions and their developers for the Firefox browsers yielded ten winners out of the over 200 submissions received.

Mozilla released an update to the Firefox browser earlier this month which, the release notes say, provides improved stability, improved support for Mac OS X, fixes for several memory leaks and several security enhancements among other things.

It’s no secret that PRWeek is undergoing a redesign, an annoying little countdown teaser has been flashing on the home page for a while now, but from an outsider’s perspective, it seems that bigger changes are already a foot; changes in how the publication approaches its content.

I noticed this morning a link on Google’s home page to Google Pack, a collection of “essentials to make your PC just work.”

Despite a few fits and starts, and some bugs to quash, the Mozilla Foundation will make the full release of the Firefox browser, version 1.5, available this afternoon.

The release candidate 1 version of the Firefox browser version 1.5 is almost but not entirely unlike a released product, except it hasn’t been released yet, and may miss its originally planned date.

OK, apparently some of the Firefox developers aren’t happy. I don’t follow this stuff closely, and probably wouldn’t understand their complaints anyway.

Several security issues have been addressed with the latest release of the open source browser.

When Symantec reported serious vulnerabilities were being found faster in Firefox than in IE, many in the tech world anticipated a strong response to the report.

The Mozilla Foundation has released the beta version of the much-anticipated Firefox 1.5 upgrade, which includes improved security as well as improved Mac support.

The release means the final release of the next version of Firefox is on track for later this year.

Mozilla’s Firefox browser now officially exists in the eyes of Microsoft. In a filing with the SEC, Mozilla was acknowledged for the first time by the software giant as a competitor. Even as we wait, and wait, and wait, for Microsoft’s next desktop contribution, the MS crew remains confident about its ability to keep up.

Mozilla needs a little help with testing aspects of its upcoming versions of Firefox and Thunderbird and they have asked for volunteers.

After some time to think about the formation of a revenue-generating corporation under the Foundation umbrella, a solution presents itself.

Mozilla, who has been a non-profit organization in the form of the Mozilla Foundation, has now changed about not taking in any profits, and has formed the Mozilla Corporation.

Mozilla, creator of the popular Firefox Internet browser and a number of other products, announced the creation of the Mozilla Corporation today. They created the commercial side to generate revenue and while their market share increases steadily, this should help them grow even further.

Planned incremental releases for the Firefox browser will be skipped in favor of a September 1.5 version release.

An issue with third-party extensions has led to a minor update of Firefox and the Thunderbird email client.

While the desktop search craze (if there really was one) may have subsided some, that doesn’t mean developers are going to stop improving their product.

After security researchers and Mozilla’s own Security Bug Bounty Program participants pointed out that popular Web browser Firefox had more holes than a Scott Peterson alibi, Mozilla decided to fix it.

Last week I met with Scott Gatz from Yahoo. He heads up personalization at Yahoo. Scott said something interesting: millions of My Yahoo users are subscribing to RSS feeds, but they don’t even realize it.