In August, students at Makerere University made international news headlines when they undertook the ambitious project of translating Mozilla’s Firefox web browser from English into the local Ugandan language of Luganda. At Campala2008 I had the pleasure of meeting Olweny San James, one of the student developers who participated in the Luganda-Firefox translation. [...]

If you’re a big fan of Mozilla like myself you probably like to customize the heck out of it. In our new site area, labs.appfrica.net we’ve added a search extension that allows you to quickly look up articles on this blog from anywhere on the internet. As you may have guessed, labs is [...]

Mozilla, the makers of the semi-ubiquitous web browser Firefox and the mail application Thunderbird, has announced Weave 0.2. Weave is an application that aims to make even your web browser itself a ‘cloud’ application.
The benefit of a ‘cloud’ application is that it allows for data to exist locally (on your computer) as [...]

If you didn’t participate in Mozilla’s Download Day, you didn’t miss much. They broke the world record despite not allowing people to download anything until several hours into the day. There’s also been some complaints about the new browser being a bit fug.
The bigger problem, although it’s gone widely unreported for some [...]