We buy the code from Voipster, get real busy with client work, thinking about when we will ever get around to developing this working proof of concept some more. Doesn’t work on Firefox 2 yet we’ve not had time to update it.
One day we would like to see this become the free VOIP for Firefox. Lets see. Its has potential but first the bills must be paid 
Voipster have not put any development budget into Zoep for Firefox since March 2006 as they have moved onto working more on the gaming market to enable players to talk to one another using voip. So Glaxstar have brought the project from them to see what we can do to deliver a good free phone service to Firefox users.
The name will change too because some company somewhere threatened to sue Voipster for trademark infringement, we are thinking about changing the name to something like “Bellr” , well, lets see what happens next shall we 
Multiple Windows! Zoep lives when you close Firefox? Keep reading…
This is a significant update and once again independent Zoep is leading the way for other (big Telco corporations) to follow
Zoep can now work across multiple Firefox windows, check it out it’s amazing!
Moreover, if your Zoep window is open when you close all your Firefox browser windows, it keeps on going, it doesn’t close down Re-open Firefox and your current Zoep state remains the same too, sweet!
Download count todate: (day 13)
Mozilla site = 2694 + Glaxstar site 6556 = 9250 Nearly at the 10,000 user mark within the first 2 weeks, not bad eh?
Here’s a full list of cool features in this final stage release…
-Zoep works with multiple Firefox browser windows
-All browser windows show your Zoep button status
-Zoep window if open, will remain live even when Firefox browser is closed.
- Re-open Firefox as often as you want without having to sign in as long as the Zoep application window remains open.
History Panel
-Filter can now check for incoming/outgoing calls and last 10, 25, 50 &100 calls
-Total account credits are displayed on history panel
Auto sign in
- checkbox on the sign in panel enables auto-sign in
- can be enabled/ disabled on the settings panel > preferences tab
Zoep IM
- Zoep IM now has clickable urls for http https & ftp
- Notification message shown during chat session when the other person goes offline/online
If the contact you want to call is off line now you can just right click their name and select “Call me please” – Next time they log in they get an auto-IM from you to tell them that they want to Zoep them.
That’s a couple of clicks off your mind….
Call me back is included in today’s rather administratively minor update 0.8.5.
Included in today’s update is…
Contacts Window
Add Window
Dial phone
Sign in, make enter after password action form
Download update
Mozilla Addons site = 2100
Glaxstar site = 3424
Total Zoep downloads to date during first 6 days = 5524
The weekend is here and the first few thousand people are busy calling friends and family using the coolest new Zoepnames! Zoep’s already got over the 3500 new users on the network and it’s only been out for 72 hours with hardly any publicity yet!
So what’s this mean?
It means that you should do your friends a big favour and get them to register the best Zoep names while they can, Zoep let’s you register names like Jax, Pam or Johny, it really is that golden opportunity to get the coolest of usernames, so don’t miss out.
Mac & Linux
Listen up Mac & Linux users, here’s a tip, get yourself on a friends windows machine just so you can create a cool username for when Zoep runs in Firefox for your favourite OS very soon…
Have super weekend everyone!
Day two and thanks to you, we’ve doubled the downloads from day one to now 2000+
To date Zoep has had a 1000+ downloads from Mozilla Addons site and 1400+ downloads from Glaxstar site so it’s already on the way to 3000!
Let’s keep it up and show the world what a rockin’ platform Mozilla Firefox really is; innovation, freedom and choice. What a combination!
Tell friends and family to get themselves a good username registered early. It’s a great opportunity to get in at the start of the future of “open-network” Internet phone calls with Firefox.
Download Zoep Free at http://www.glaxstar.com/zoep
Well we didn’t expect this! Downloads from Mozilla and Glaxstar sites combined now top 1000+ downloads within the first 24 hours of Zoep’s public Beta release, sweet
It was especially nice to see that even the few people having connection problems still had nice things to say about Zoep
At time of writing this post around 1400 people have already connected to the free service that won’t tie them down.
When the future’s calling, smart people know when to pick up the phone!
Every good extension has a bag-over-head moment
So responding to the few (as in three) reports of Zoep hanging forever with a grey sign in window, we found that if the user Internet connection was lost during Firefox start-up the engine did not trap the event and so didn’t give the proper “connection lost message” (resulting in the waiting–forever scenario).
This has been fixed in 0.8.1 so please update your extension and hopefully this will also solve problems with intermittent time-outs with Internet connections also which we suspect was the cause of the few reported sign in problems so far.
- Enjoy
Hello Friend and welcome to Glaxstar’s Zoep extension developer blog for Voipster
Zoep is an interesting extension for Firefox on many levels, not least because it takes Firefox extensibility to new levels of choice for the user.
Some say a browser should just be a browser, others say the opposite and want everything in-one-bag with applications integrated into one easy-to-use tool.
An easy-to-use phone would on the face of it, be a good candidate for an integrated browser application especially an open network one like Zoep that enables you to communicate (IM only at the moment) with other open services like Google Talk.(who last week switched their network from closed to open. I wonder why?)
What ever your view is, or if you’ve never given the browser vs application platform debate a second thought, this is not really the forum to bash the debate so I hope to head-it-off by mentioning it up font
One of the key reasons for Glaxstar taking on this project (other than wanting to pay the bills) was the fact of how impressed we were with Voipster’s vision of the future of telecommunications. Seriously this isn’t a suck-up to the client I mean we were seriously impressed in their belief that communication between VOIP software systems should be inter-connected like email is today. Imagine how cool that would be, for all the systems to talk to each other so you didn’t have to have four Instant messaging numbers or a couple of VOIP accounts that restricted you to talking to other people on the same network.
Well welcome to the future of inter-connected Internet calling straight from your web browser! This is what Zoep is all about and we’re pretty excited to be here with you to be part of the pioneering days
I’d be delighted for to join us here in shaping how this pro-extension for Firefox develops moving forward and if you’ve not yet make the switch to Firefox and are wondering what all the fuss is about, then I’d recommend you make the switch today so you can join in the fun.
Finally, I just wanted to say that we intend to adopt an open-community approach to the continued development of the Zoep extension which should work well as the Zoep back-end-engine is open-source too. For example, this blog post has not been vetted or approved by Voipster that’s not how we work, there’s no corporate sanitation here just honest community discussion.
It’s day one, my team and I are tired, it’s 4:30 AM and it’s time we went home to get some sleep;) Glaxstar’s Jorge is in New York and half the Voipster team are in San Francisco this week so between us all we should be able to keep the blog manned almost round-the-clock
Mozilla have pushed Zoep extension live here https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1927 so I guess it’s time to see what happens next !
Btw - I’ll keep it shorter next time!
See you friend, all the best,
Ian Hayward CEO Glaxstar