Current versions: MultiZilla v1.8.3.4e / GoogleBox v1.8d
You can install the latest official release from the installation page, and make sure to read the release notes and browse the features section of our website for the latest documentation.
What's up?
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News Feed:
Keeping you informed
Our news feed keeps you informed about upcomming releases, updates and other news events. You can subscribe to the feed by clicking on the feed icon. We also have a project team blog where we try to keep you informed about other project-related things, and some off-topic rants from time to time.
What is MultiZilla?
MultiZilla is the browser extension that introduced the tab UI for Mozilla-based browsers, and was launched in April 2001 as a public mozdev.org project. Current versions of SeaMonkey and Mozilla Firefox make use of HJ's original idea, but in a limited fashion so MultiZilla still offers features and improvements unavailable to users of SeaMonkey and Mozilla Firefox (although Mozilla Firefox has a more feature rich implementation as they seem to copy just about any other extension they like).
Integrated tools
MultiZilla, besides just introducing and improving the tabbed UI, contains several integrated tools for advanced users. Amongst others, we have a Quick Preferences button (on the MultiZilla and navigator toolbar of your choice) allowing you easy access to oft-used preferences; the first User Agent Manager allows you to easily spoof your web browser (to work around some broken websites); the first real Content Blocker with a Permission Manager (to block all kinds of media, including Flash, images, cookies, frames, etc) using a powerful (optional) regexp mechanism; the first Tab Session Manager (to allow you to maintain your working environment between different browser sessions); the first integrated Feed Viewer (which shows the RSS data in nice tabs); a simple Feed Reader (as sidebar panel); plus a complementary Preference Manager with nine different pref panels and a heavily modified JS Console with filter capability and its own settings window, and more...
The GoogleBox
The GoogleBox was the first XBL toolkit application, available as an extension for MultiZilla, which nicely integrates into the already available MultiZilla toolbar, saving you vertical screen real estate (The Googlebar project has nothing to do with HJ's original work, but they thought about using his XBL, and was shortly later introduced, but gained more momentum afterwards).
About the project
HJ (the project owner) used Netscape Navigator (before Mozilla and SeaMonkey) but was forced to use Opera's MDI, this because of the lack of tabs, thus he started the project as MultiViews in 2000 (later renamed to MultiZilla because of possible trademark issues) simply because nobody over at Netscape liked HJ's idea, so he had to do all the hard work, but that quickly changed after they noticed that it was a huge success... with tons of downloads.
That is when the suits over at Netscape woke up, but not a single day earlier!
Testimonial
One of the big reasons why Multizilla is what it is—the fact that you're thinking about the user (and no doubt use it yourself). All too often, I see someone with the attitude, "I wrote it this way because that's how I wanted to write it, and I know what you want/need better than you do ... so you WILL like it.".
– Jim Graham.
Probably just another aspect of HJ's Open Source spirit, who FYI, has written free software since 1985 and is the author of; Database Choice, The Elite BBS, Flexbase, Procomm, Terminal software, Peter Norton style low-level DOS utilities and over a hundred other programs, extensions and themes.
Our Team Members:
- HJ van Rantwijk - Project Owner and original developer.
- Michael Vincent van Rantwijk - Project Lead and main developer.
- Rajnish Bhaskar - Webmaster and Windows XP tester.
- John Somebody - Project Assistant.
- …and a number of anonymous volunteers who test MultiZilla while they browse the Internet from day to day.
Disclaimer
MultiZilla is a non-profit Open Source development project hosted at MozDev.org. We provide the MultiZilla browser extension for SeaMonkey at no cost. Interested (end)users can install and use this software for free, however, we do this without any warranty whatsoever.
All available source code is tagged with the MPL license and can be viewed in plain text on-line in our CVS tree.