Independent Status Reports

The independent status reports include news and updates from 
Mozilla application and extension projects hosted on mozdev.org 
and elsewhere in the Mozilla community.

There is an enormous push at the moment on the grassroots level in co-ordination with mozilla.org 
to increase the number of Firefox/Thunderbird downloads and get folks to switch from other browsers 
and email clients. This push includes one thousand reviews of Firefox on the download.com product 
listing page (http://www.download.com/Mozilla-Firefox/3000-2356-10299359.html?tag=lst-0-1), compiling 
a list of 2000 sites that should have Get Firefox buttons but don't have them yet, and fortherecord 
(http://www.blakeross.com/archives/000234.html) -- an attempt to recruit people to help Mozilla to 
get more press coverage.
Some websites have sprung up to encourage and inform users on making the switch. All don't focus 
exclusively on swithing to Mozilla clients, but they are included. See zillivisation (http://studer.tv/zillivisation/), 
Browse Happy (http://browsehappy.com/), Switch2Firefox (http://www.switch2firefox.com/), and 
FirefoxIE (http://firefoxie.net/).
And of course, one of the best reasons for switching is the great choice and quality of extensions available. Enjoy these latest 
reports from some of the projects!

Mozilla-Delphi Project, resources for working with Mozilla technologies in Borland Delphi and Kylix.
For: n/a
Platform: Windows, Linux
CVS contains updated JavaScript Bridge classes: Delphi functions now return values (string,
double, integer, boolean and object types) to JavaScript. CVS also contains patches to improve 
SpiderMonkey's unicode support. This is beta code so please report any problems via the mailing 
list. Stef Mientki spotted that the zip for 'Taming the Lizard with Delphi' (GeckoBrowser) 
contained the Delphi 4 source instead of the most recent Delphi 5+ source. This has now 
been fixed.
Highlights:
- Delphi functions return values via JS Bridge
- Improved unicode support in SpiderMonkey
- More bugs squashed
http://delphi.mozdev.org/

LookAhead - v0.7, which uses Google web service to fetch URLs in multiple tabs.
For: Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Notable recent highlights are:
- Added dialog to configure usage
- Added context menu with selected text for LookAheading
- Added dialog to enter Google key
- Fixed broken interaction with SearchButton
To come is a fix interaction with "WebSearch" and to create "application" for identifying new Google results for search 
strings (like "GoogleAlert" Jr.?
http://lookahead.mozdev.org/

Autofill - V0.2, a Firefox extension to automatically fill in forms.
For: Mozilla, Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Released V0.2 on 8/24
New Features included support for credit card attributes, validation of credit card numbers against Prefix, length, 
and LUHN Algorithm, and support for form field recognition based on labels.
There are numerous bug fixesincluding:
- Preferences Profile fields enabled on failed profile add
- Fixed tab select behaviour to properly enable/disable autofill button when witching between tabs
- Fixed options dialog popping up on top left of screen (now centered in opening window)
- Fixed how add profile works to be more intuitive and less error prone
http://autofill.mozdev.org/

3iempost - v0.3, a Firefox extension for posting a webpage to 3iem.net.
For: Firefox 0.9+
Platform: Platform independent
Version 0.3 has been released. New options added, and auto post url into forum added.
Notable Highlights:
- Post a webpage to 3iem.net with one click
- Options to customize posting
http://3iempost.mozdev.org/

bioFOX - v0.2, a bioinformatics tools on Mozilla browsers.
For: Mozilla, Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Notable Highlights:
- Fixed blastn, blastp URLs
- Fixed frame bug
http://biofox.mozdev.org/

biobar - v1.2, a power browsing toolbar for bioinformatics database searches.
For: Mozilla, Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, All platforms where mozilla/firefox compiled
Biobar is a toolbar for biologists and bioinformaticians. Version 1.2 of biobar allows searching for information from 
26 different biological databases from EBI, NCBI, plant, animal, scientific literature, functional and genomic collections.
Notable Highlights
- New Options menu
- Choice of specifying default database
- Allows dynamic control of search database list
- NCBI Library Linkout for customizing literature searches
- Choice of mirrors for ExPASy, OCA, Flybase and RCSB databases
- List of Databases, searchable using biobar
http://biobar.mozdev.org/

MozManual - v1+, a Mozilla Manual - Introduction to Mozilla.
For: Mozilla
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
New translations are available!
Notable Highlights:
- Dutch Version 1.0 is now available
- French version 1.35 (some minor corrections)
- Web version 1.1 (some minor corrections)
http://mozmanual.mozdev.org/

Habari Xenu - v0.8, a Cool XUL News Aggregator.
For: Mozilla
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Parses most syntactically correct feeds.
Notable Highlights:
- Improved parsing of feeds
- Supports RSS, RDF and Atom news feeds
- Improved UI
http://habarixenu.mozdev.org/

ConQuery - v1.1, a context sensitive web query extension.
For: Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird
Platform: All
Notable Highlights:
- FireFox 0.9 - 1.0 compatible, on-line update supported;
- Thunderbird 0.6 - 0.7+ compatible (plugins with GET method only);
http://conquery.mozdev.org/

Read more about each of these projects in the full report at
http://www.mozdev.org/status/2004-08-30-status.html