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This week, Google drove one of the final nails in the coffin of Firefox 2.0, by discontinuing a service designed to keep users of the now obsolete version of the open source browser safe while browsing. As of January 20, 2009, the Mountain View search giant shut down the Phishing and Malware Protection service that i... |
21 January 2009
08:38 GMT |
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Just two days after the release of Firefox 2.0.0.19 and the official cut-off date for all updates to Firefox 2.0, Mozilla announced its plans to make available Firefox 2.0.0.20 as soon as possible. On December 17, Mozilla explained that it had managed to ship an incomplete Firefox 2.0.0.19 build, and that, in this co... |
18 December 2008
15:41 GMT |
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While working to produce the first Release Candidate of Firefox 3.1, Mozilla has made available for download two new releases of codename Shiretoko's precursors. Firefox 3.0.5 and Firefox 2.0.0.19 went live on December 16, 2008, and are now up for grabs along with Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. As it had warned as early a... |
17 December 2008
14:11 GMT |
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Mozilla assured as early as the past week that the first security and stability update for Firefox 3.0 would be available for download on July 16, and it looks like it lived up to its promise. Although official confirmation has yet to be made available, Firefox 3.0.1 is already up for grabs, one day following the rel... |
16 July 2008
10:05 GMT |
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Mozilla has signed Firefox 2.0's death sentence. The predecessor of Firefox 3.0 has approximately six more months of life left, after which Mozilla will focus entirely on version 3.0 and above. In fact, Firefox 2.0 will not live to see 2009, and will be buried by versions 3.0 and 3.1 of the open source browser. ... |
2 July 2008
05:16 GMT |
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Firefox 3.0 will end up completely taking Firefox 2.0 out of the equation because it is simply the natural order of things. As Mozilla's open source browser evolves, users will keep up to date and will upgrade to the latest edition. However, the migration process, as a general rule, takes time and the swap of Fi... |
1 July 2008
13:18 GMT |
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Mozilla is nearing the finish line for the latest version of its open source browser. Firefox 3.0 was initially planned for launch by the end of 2007, but Mozilla pushed the delivery deadline back all the way to mid 2008 in an effort to soften all the rough edges of the browser. It appears that the trade has paid of... |
6 May 2008
09:54 GMT |
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When it comes down to the face-off between Microsoft and Mozilla on the browser market it's not all about the install base, market share percentages and audience converting, but also about security. And one aspect of the security race, of course not relevant onto itself for the entire protection level delivered ... |
13 February 2008
07:27 GMT |
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Keeping in line with the general tendency associated with traditional content and business models migrating online, Microsoft evolved Office Live for Small Businesses in an effort to permit the users of the service to enjoy expanded online promotion and management capabilities. With a collection of new tools and serv... |
11 February 2008
04:40 GMT |
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Mozilla has confirmed that the first Release Candidate builds of Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 are now available for download. In this manner, Mozilla is making yet another step further towards the delivery of the next generation of its open source browser. Firefox 3.0 is designed to replace Firefox 2.x, which was released back... |
8 February 2008
07:51 GMT |
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Out with the old, in with the new. Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 are virtually slaughtering Internet Explorer 6. There was a time, unfortunately not too long ago, when Internet Explorer 7 ruled the world wide web. Back in October 2006, IE6 still accounted for approximately 80% of the global browser market. Octo... |
5 February 2008
09:22 GMT |
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Are Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 sufficient to cure the Internet Explorer cancer? Well... According to statistics made available by Net Applications, Firefox accounted for a consistent jump in audience in 2007. Mozilla's open source browser increased its market share from 13.70% in January 2007 to 16.80% at the end of De... |
8 January 2008
10:10 GMT |
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Do you have an immutable affinity for Mozilla's open source browser? Are you generally among the first to jump on everything that moves in Firefox land? Are you looking for a way to access early development milestones of Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 2.0.0.x ahead of anybody else? Then, Mozilla has the right answer to... |
21 December 2007
07:02 GMT |
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Mozilla is taking Firefox 3.0, and Firefox 2.0 for that matter, where Microsoft will never dare venture with Internet Explorer 8. Internet Explorer 7 is not even worth mentioning, as the Redmond company is offering end users a virtually inflexible browser. Not the same can be said of Firefox. The extensive customiza... |
17 December 2007
12:27 GMT |
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As Mozilla is wrapping up the development process for the Beta 2 stage of Firefox 3.0 now due on December 21st, it is clear that the next version of the open source browser will hit in early 2008. And taking into consideration the proximity of the final version of Firefox 3.0, just a few betas away, questions come to... |
12 December 2007
06:36 GMT |
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While Microsoft published the latest data on the adoption of Internet Explorer 7, claiming an excess of 300 million users worldwide, Mozilla has some numbers of its own about Firefox. Mozilla COO, John Lilly, made public the statistics on the open source browser, claiming a market share of over 125 million users. Lil... |
3 December 2007
11:49 GMT |
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Mozilla has made available for download a fresh release of Firefox 2.0 that has moved past Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista and onto Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. With the latest update to its open source browser, Mozilla moves from version 2.0.0.7 to 2.0.0.8. The new release comes one month after Fir... |
19 October 2007
03:34 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 are neck and neck in the race for audience. This is the conclusion presented by the statistics published by Internet metrics company W3Counter. At the beginning of October 2007, IE7 is credited with a market share of 20.18% while its direct competitor from Mozilla accounts for a pe... |
5 October 2007
07:59 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 6 is a moribund browser. There is little doubt about this aspect, and the reality is that IE6 is obsolete from all points of view, and as such, an inferior product to Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 1.5 for that matter and Safari 3 for Windows. Currently, IE6 is living its final moments... |
2 October 2007
13:14 GMT |
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Both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 were unveiled in October 2006. IE7 had the advantage of the ubiquitous Windows platform and the Windows Update infrastructure designed to automatically serve up updates to existing IE6 users. Mozilla's open source browser is less fortunate in this perspective, but it not... |
3 September 2007
12:50 GMT |
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Apple's Safari 3 transitioned onto the Windows platform is going nowhere fast. Praised as an epitome of performance, design, style, security and usability, Safari 3, migrated to the alien Windows operating system for the sake of the iPhone, found that both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista are nothi... |
7 August 2007
04:50 GMT |
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New security tools for Firefox 2.0 and the Thunderbird 2.0 are coming, courtesy of Mozilla. Window Snyder, the Director of Ecosystem Development at Mozilla Corporation revealed that the tools have been used internally in the process of securing both the open source browser as well as the email client. However, Mozill... |
2 August 2007
09:48 GMT |
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It's love all around, and noting but love for the three major competitors in the browser race for the Windows platform, as Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Safari 3 all enjoyed an increase in market share the past month, according to statistics from Market Share by Net Applications. However, this gain in mar... |
1 August 2007
12:47 GMT |
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On July 30 Mozilla introduced a security update to Firefox 2.0, and version 2.0.0.6 of the open source browser is now available for download. With this release, Mozilla is addressing a security vulnerability in Firefox initially associated with a combination between the open source browser and Internet Explorer on th... |
31 July 2007
05:50 GMT |
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Mozilla is right on track to dispelling the customer perception created around its open source browser, that the product is an epitome of security. Instead, thanks to a new perspective from Mozilla's chief security officer, Firefox no longer represents an apex of user protection but it is just as flawed as Micro... |
25 July 2007
05:02 GMT |
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Forget about Internet Explorer 7! Why even bother to use IE7 in Windows XP and Windows Vista, when there's always Firefox 2.0 available? The fact of the matter is that Microsoft itself is pushing the open source browser in the detriment of Internet Explorer. I guess that the Redmond company saw the error of its ... |
24 July 2007
12:29 GMT |
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Mozilla recommends their own Firefox open source browser over the rival Internet Explorer following the disclosure of the Microsoft Internet Explorer FirefoxURL Protocol Handler Command Injection vulnerability. The security flaw impacts Internet Explorer through Firefox, as a direct result of the interaction between ... |
23 July 2007
07:40 GMT |
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Microsoft has started delivering security development lessons to Mozilla. With Internet Explorer 7, the Redmond company focused on security as the backbone of the product aiming to scrape both the bad history and the rap of IE6 in terms of user protection. The fact of the matter is that one of the aspects that have d... |
23 July 2007
04:06 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Safari 3.0 share similar security vulnerabilities on Windows Vista. Still, Microsoft's latest operating system is by no means the only platform affected by the flaws associated with the three browsers. The list of impacted operating systems ranges from Windows 2000 to Windows... |
12 July 2007
04:18 GMT |
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Mozilla has begun pushing the last nail in Firefox 1.5's coffin. On 28 June 2007, Mozilla has begun distributing the automatic updates to Firefox 2.0 to all users of Firefox 1.5. In this manner, the Foundation steps in the footprints of Microsoft. The Redmond company debuted automatic updates of Internet Explore... |
29 June 2007
06:57 GMT |
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With the release of Safari 3.0 for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows XP, Apple got a taste of vulnerabilities and of user disinterest in contrast to rival solutions. No less than eight security flaws hit Safari 3.0 on Windows in just the first day of availability of the public beta, indicating the true meas... |
15 June 2007
09:21 GMT |
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Apple has compared the performances of Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9 to its own browser transitioned to Windows Vista and Windows XP and has concluded that Safari is top dog. The Cupertino-based company made Safari 3.0 available for download as a public beta on June 11, 2007, following an announcement ... |
12 June 2007
10:54 GMT |
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Forget about Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and about Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 and even about Gran Paradiso. There is a new browser in Windows town, and it has been transitioned from the Apple Mac OS X platform. That's right, Apple's Safari is the fresh new Windows Vista and Windows XP alien browser... |
12 June 2007
03:48 GMT |
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Firefox 1.5 is dead, long live Firefox 2.0, and Gran Paradiso Alpha 5, and Firefox 3.0 when the time will come later this year. While Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 is still an embryo in Redmond utero, Mozilla is going through various versions of its open source browser like through pairs of socks. And while In... |
11 June 2007
05:49 GMT |
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Mozilla's run with Firefox is near its end, as the open source browser is out of breath. In contrast, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 has brought new life to the ubiquitous, but dormant and eroded IE browser. IE7 managed to beat Firefox 2.0 to the market by a few days, but this is a detail, which delivers l... |
6 June 2007
11:11 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 are two browsers with security "at heart," so to speak. IE7 because of the focus associated with the Microsoft development effort, and Firefox 2.0 because of the relatively small market share together with an inactive threat environment. Customer perception aside, both the Microsof... |
5 June 2007
02:44 GMT |
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Microsoft's latest version of Internet Explorer has hit the mother of all dead-ends. Internet Explorer 7 was released to the general public on 18 October 2006, almost a week before Firefox 2.0. Back in October 2006, IE7 owned a share of just 3.18% of the browser market, but following its release, the adoption of... |
1 June 2007
10:10 GMT |
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Mozilla delivers more Windows Vista love with a fresh update to Firefox 2.0. As of May 30, 2007 Mozilla has made available two new updates for both 1.5 and 2.0 version of its open source browser. Firefox 1.5.0.12 and Firefox 2.0.0.4 deliver security and stability enhancements, and also mark the end of support for Fir... |
31 May 2007
05:55 GMT |
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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 dies today. Version 1.5 of the open source browser from Mozilla has reached the end of its lifecycle, and May 30, 2007 is a date synonymous with its expiration. Firefox 1.5 was initially scheduled for expiration on April 24, 2007. However, Firefox managed to survive the original planned date for t... |
30 May 2007
04:28 GMT |
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 is no match for Mozilla Firefox 2.0. When it comes to browsers, Microsoft has the dominant position on the market, accounting for a share of in excess of 78.03% while Mozilla has just managed to grow to 15.42%. However, when it comes to the face-off between Internet Explorer 7 and... |
2 May 2007
08:43 GMT |
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Just as Linux and Apple are perceived by default as the most secure operating systems on the market in comparison to Windows, Firefox has a big advantage over Internet Explorer in terms of user protection. And the customer perception of the two browsers has rubbed off on the latest versions Firefox 2.0 and Internet E... |
5 April 2007
12:05 GMT |
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The recent critical vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling has brought the heat down on Mozilla. The reason for this is the fact that Firefox 2.0 can be used as an attack vector to exploit the .ANI file vulnerability in Windows Vista, just as much as Internet Explorer 7. Yesterday you have been able to wat... |
5 April 2007
10:24 GMT |
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The adoption of Internet Explorer 7 is growing in momentum. Back on October 18, 2006, Microsoft made available for download the final version of Internet Explorer 7. The release was designed for Windows XP. Windows Vista ships with its own variant of Internet Explorer 7 that also had a + in the name to a certain po... |
2 April 2007
08:41 GMT |
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Mozilla Firefox 2.0 is finding it difficult to breathe with the saturation that Microsoft is delivering by pushing Internet Explorer 7 via Automatic Updates. This is the conclusion presented by Web metrics company Janco Associates. The management consulting firm has revealed that Internet Explorer 7 has impacted the ... |
30 March 2007
07:08 GMT |
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer currently owns the lion share of the browser market, but its domination has been continuously eroded by the increasing adoption of Mozilla's Firefox. Researchers with the SANS Institute revealed that Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7 are on equal terms when it comes to the pe... |
20 March 2007
05:34 GMT |
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The smackdown between Internet Explorer, Opera and Firefox has advanced to a new stage with the versions 7, 9.1 and 2.0 of the browsers. Just as it is the case with the operating systems, browser products are also compared in a variety of aspects, from security to customization to the options each application deliver... |
17 March 2007
06:26 GMT |
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