Firefox For Windows 10 Campaign ...Localisation..Recognitions!

Bhopal,
20th Sep 2015

What makes a team even better is the communication it has, the transparency it shares and the beliefs it works upon. The Mozilla Madhya Pradesh is a living example of what a team is supposed to be like.There are Reps, Mentors &  Fsa's who are coming together sharing their knowledge working on passion about the same dream...to satisfy the end Mozilla user. He might be using the firefox browser, the thunderbird or even the freshly introduced Firefox os but he should be happy about the product he uses.

The meet basically had few major agendas:
1.) Contributions Of Fsa's in various sectors.
2.) Localisation
3.)  Firefox For Windows 10 Campaign
4.)Recognition

Rahul Talreja who is also one of the Mozilla Representatives started the meet at "Grills & More" Bhopal(M.P). As discussed above the first thing he talked about was the ways and sectors through which a Fsa(Firefox Students Ambassador) can contribute. He discussed the various levels of recognition in FSA.

 

Then we were joined by Vaibhav Bajaj who is also a Mozilla representative. He told us how to localise mozilla browser i.e how to translate the firefox web browser into our local language which can be hindi,urdu,punjabi etc. Now the question arises how can this help the end user?

As we know that in India majority of people speak hindi or their respective language thus, with this initiative Mozilla wants to make a home like environment for its users which is a innovative thinking to be said.

Then we had all the reps and fsa and we learnt how to make the Mozilla Firefox Browser the default web browser for Windows 10. Through this we are introduced to  Firefox For Windows 10 campaign Where we try to open ourselves to the firefox environment instead of being encaged to the walled gardens.



Finally came the part where all the worthy and top contributors were awarded :

Satyadeep Bhardwaj  Receiving swags and Tshirt For being Number 1 For more than a month in SuMO(Army OF Awesome)

The top contributors from womoz(Women In Mozilla) with the swags. They have been performing exceptionally well in areas like GeoLocation Stumbler..SuMo(Support Mozilla) etc..Its good to see how passion can bring people together and how a team can perform exceptionally well!

                                    Jnct Firefox Club winning swags  for their performance!

101 Tweets..From 33 To 8!

SuMo(Support Mozilla)
Bhopal Diaries..

Sumo- Support Mozilla is a wing in the hood of mozilla that helps customers by getting a interaction directly with the volunteers of Mozillian Community. The users tweet or ask questions in the forums while the volunteers are supposed to answer them or reply them in order to make their experience better with firefox. The users on one hand get their problems solved whereas the contributors on the other hand gain experience of dealing with people, marketting a specific product or or even gaining more and more knowledge about the products of mozilla and problems faced by a general user.

After this short info I want to share my exeperience with SuMo. Its been a month since i attended moz meet given by Rahul Talreja  and I was so much intrested in Mozilla that i immediately came into action.Though there were many things that he told us but of all i liked SuMo the most, as it not only provided me with an option to show my contributions but also get a chance to be part of something really big and actually awesome.

So that very day i logged into Mozilla Support and joined Army Of Awesome. Each day i gave half an hour to this and believe me this experience was something i had experienced never before, new people..solving their doubts! The irony is today i posted my 101th tweet in Mozilla Support(Army Of Awesome) and then i saw the list of top contributors and i was ranked 8th! I feel really great and thankful towards Mozilla and Rahul for believing me..having faith in me and trusting me when it was needed.
Thanks Alot!

My Ranking In Sumo Top Contributors

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One Step At A time

So after starting the Jnct Firefox Club the next thing to focus was contributions by fellow fsa's, but how could we work together? I mean a chat app cant provide with the level of connection that is actually required in such stuff. The queries were increasing each day as we had new joinees. So finally i thought to have the first official meet of the club and the venue was choosen to be Db Mall Bhopal.

Usually people prepare lines and quotes and what not to motivate the team but somewhere deep down i knew that this team doesn't needs motivation all they need is guidance and the rest would be legend to be told in coming years.

The bromoz consited of me,Piyush Singhal,Yash Sonune,Shubham Shrivastav,Sukesh Kumar and Shrey Soni while the womoz had Riya Gupta,Shivani Pandey,Rashmi Shrivastav and Priyanka Mehre.

The meeting began at somewhere around 1:30pm and continued till 3:00 pm. Topics like Fsa registration, Roles of Fsa, Contributions and how to show them,Arrival of windows 10, posts in the club and club's future plans were discussed.

The coding team Yash,Shubham,Shivani and Piyush also shared their vision of building firefox apps and also enriched us with basic Html and Css.

The club now has:

Campaign Lead- Rashmi,Priyanka And Shubham

Event Lead- Pushkar

Code Lead- Yash, Shubham, Shivani and Piyush

Content Lead- Riya,Sukesh,Shrey

Design/Creativity Leads- Pushkar,Sukesh and Himanshu

Photography Leads- Shrey

The club plans to hold a workshop on Mozilla Awareness and Fsa in Jnct Soon

Fingers Crossed!

Battle of the best browsers: Edge vs. Chrome vs. Firefox vs. Safari vs. Opera vs. IE

The era when Google Chrome was head and shoulders above the competition has ended. Today’s popular browsers compete on a level playing field. Internet Explorer 11 — the oft overlooked Microsoft standby — is being replaced by Edge, a lean browser for Windows 10. Mozilla Firefox and Opera continue to ramp up their version numbers, and Safari tenaciously scuttles along as the under-appreciated byproduct of Apple’s quest for global domination.

Installation, updates, and compatibility

Installation across the five browsers is basically the same. Users can download them from their respective websites if they aren’t built into your operating system already (i.e. Safari comes preinstalled on Mac OS X, Edge on Windows 10, And IE on all previous versions of Windows), and each will typically download in under 30 seconds depending on your Internet connection.

Below is a list of browser compatibility:

• Google Chrome: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
• Mozilla Firefox : Windows, Mac OS X , and Linux
• Internet Explorer (32 and 64-bit): Windows
• Safari: Mac OS X, Windows (no longer updated)
• Opera: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
• Edge: Available with Windows 10

When it comes to updates, Opera, Firefox, and Chrome have the advantage. They install silently, quickly, and transparently download updates in the background and automatically apply the new software when you relaunch the programs. What’s more, the third-party browsers update most frequently, every few weeks, so any major problems are likely to be fixed quicker than with IE and Safari. It’s too soon to say how frequently Microsoft will update Edge.

Users can also manually install updates on Firefox if they would like to have greater control over the browser or prefer to use an older version for whatever reason. Keep in mind that turning off automatic updates is more likely to put your computer at risk, though, since each browser is continuously adding security fixes and other key stability updates.

Google Chrome: Chrome has a lean address bar configuration, stripping everything down into a simple tab layout and address bar configuration that also doubles as a search bar Google calls the “Omnibox.” Like most browsers, the window can get incredibly cramped with 15+ tabs open, but it still does a fantastic job of delivering content whether you have the browser fully expanded or slightly minimized for the sake of space.

Adjacent to the omnibox is Chrome’s simple standard navigational features (i.e. back, forward, refresh, home) by default, but you can easily slim down the window by customizing the toolbar and deleting any buttons you deem pointless. Chrome’s single-click bookmarking method, done by simply clicking the star located on the right side of the address bar, also makes bookmarking your favorite webpages a breeze and hassle-free experience.

Mozilla Firefox: This browser features a similar, yet more useful layout when compared to its competitors, placing the tab bar above the address bar. Despite reaching version 40 of the software (it skipped versions 18 and 11 through 16, apparently), it still feels like the bulky predecessors of the software, refusing to unite the address and search bars in a single unified field like all of its peers.

However, this is more of an aesthetic issue than a functional one — you can search within the address bar or the accompanying search bar to its right. The browser offers the same kind of single-click bookmarking that Chrome does — all you have to do is click the star located to the right of the search bar — but there isn’t much else that separates it from the rest of the pack. The settings menu is accessible in a similar fashion to that of Google Chrome, allowing you to access various options by clicking a simple button depicting three horizontal bars located in the upper-right corner of the window. Unfortunately, it also takes up a bit of space that could otherwise be used by the tab bar.

Internet Explorer: Technically, IE 11 is the most minimal Internet device of the four, with less “chrome” than Chrome. IE 11 features a single bar that simultaneously functions as the browser’s address and search bar. The space at the top places your open tabs to the right of the address-search bar, making it somewhat more cluttered than some of our other picks given the amount of space the search field takes up, but it typically isn’t worrisome unless you’re really stacking up a high volume of tabs. Other notable design features include the single-click bookmarking star now widely adopted by almost all other prominent browsers.

The two decade old browser is being phased out to make way for Microsoft’s newest browser, Edge. IE is still available in Windows 10, but is not the default and will not receive new features.

Safari:  The browser that has traditionally attracted criticism is now a serious competitor to the likes of Google and Firefox. The newest version of Apple’s browser is fairly minimalist in design, but retains enough familiarity for old users of the browser to feel at home. Like its peers, Safari offers the address-search bar hybrid. Updates to Safari 8 include a share icon embedded to the right of the search field. The sharing feature serves as a way to bookmark pages, post to social networks, and share via native Apple platforms (iMessage, Mail). The updated Safari is worth a shot for any OS X users. Mac users running the most recent operating system can even launch the browser in full-screen mode, essentially expanding the window and for the ultimate viewing experience.

Opera: This browser embraces Google’s chromium Web engine while retaining signature features that distinguish the browser from the rest. Opera has a single hybrid address-search bar like Chrome, but the alternative browser also sports Opera’s signature features, stash and speed dial. Speed dial allows for easy bookmarking and functions like “the most visited page” on Safari. Stash is similar to Pocket, allowing you to quickly store pages for future browsing. The bottom line, it’s a clean design with innovative features that holds its own against the rest of the competition.

Edge: Edge resembles IE 11, though with even smaller borders, fewer icons, and a streamlined toolbar designed to take up more real estate on your display than IE 11. A solitary, address-search bar will also run the width of the page, as well as a trio of headline features that include markups, reading view, and Microsoft’s equivalent to Siri (aka Cortana). It is the standard web browser for Windows 10, and has integration with many of the OS’s features and apps, including Cortana and Outlook.


pushonit: My take on  this competion is...as far as the customers are staisfied it doesnt really matter which browsers you call best as each of them have loyal fan base.