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Internet Explorer 9 bested all rival browsers in the latest iteration of a social engineered malware test performed by NSS Labs. With a block rate of over 99%, IE9 is in a comfortable lead compared to all competitors including Apple Safari 5, Google Chrome 12, Mozilla Firefox 4 and Opera 11, in terms of the protecti... |
16 August 2011
09:13 GMT |
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Firefox 5 has been available for about two weeks now. It's the first release under the new rapid development cycle at Mozilla and was pushed as a security update for Firefox 4. It shouldn't be much of a surprise then that Firefox 5 already has a bigger market share than the Firefox 4 it's replacing.
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4 July 2011
09:46 GMT |
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Mozilla won't provide any more security updates for Firefox 4.0, because 5.0 is considered a replacement and officially starts the new Chrome-like six-week development cycle.According to a discussion about Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 support on the mozilla.dev.planning mailing list, Firefox 4.0.1 was the only planned up... |
24 June 2011
02:53 GMT |
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Microsoft has just upped the ante in terms of browser internationalization efforts, with Internet Explorer 9 topping direct rivals such as the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. The “found” in translation IE9 now supports a total of 93 languages for users around the world, more than an... |
26 May 2011
06:17 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 9 is a solid addition to the line up of Microsoft browsers and is a big improvement over its predecessors, but it hasn't helped the company gain any market share overall or even stop the decline. The same goes for Mozilla, Firefox 4 is making huge headway, but Firefox's overall market shar... |
2 May 2011
12:00 GMT |
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A new version of Mozilla’s popular web browser has been released in the wild containing important security fixes for avid users of the application, including those surfing the web on a Macintosh computer.
Firefox 4.0.1 fixes security issues found in previous versions of Firefox 4, as well as stability issues... |
29 April 2011
07:34 GMT |
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The Prospector Project is home to some interesting experiments with the Firefox UI and search options. The latest is an Awesomebar revamp which integrates the search box with the regular address bar. Dubbed the Awesomebar HD, it works similarly to the OmniBox in Chrome or the address bar in IE9, though there are some... |
28 April 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Firefox 4 launched exactly one month ago and it seems to be one of the most successful Mozilla launches to date. While it didn't manage to beat the record for the number of downloads in the first day, though it came close, Firefox 4 continued to make headway and has now reached 100 million downloads, according t... |
23 April 2011
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Berry Kauler, the father of the Puppy Linux project, has announced on April 2nd that Puppy Linux 5.2.5 has been launched and is available for download. Puppy Linux 5.2.5 is the second update this year, this version being release only two months later. It has over 50 contributors, making it one of the most worke... |
4 April 2011
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From the outside, there's a notion that web technologies are rather static, they evolve, obviously, but only major steps are advertised. But the technologies powering the modern web are in a state of flux, developers and browser makers are constantly adding new stuff and tweaking the existing methods.At the same... |
30 March 2011
11:20 GMT |
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Firefox 4 is continuing to raise the interest of millions of users as many upgrade from previous versions or switch from other browsers to check out the new contender. It has close to 40 million downloads at this point, in less than a week since launch.But even more relevant than downloads is actual usage and this ha... |
28 March 2011
13:10 GMT |
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Now that things are settling down following the Firefox 4 launch, Mozilla is providing some stats and info highlighting the first two days after the browser became available. Firefox 4 racked up 15.85 million downloads in that time frame, with the second day being bigger than the first. Firefox 4 launched on Tuesday,... |
26 March 2011
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Aviary has updated its add-ons for both Firefox and Chrome. Just in time for Firefox 4, the Aviary extension got a big update, not only adding support for the new browser, but also a brand new feature, the ability to edit images on the same page they're on. A day later, the Chrome extension got the same update.
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26 March 2011
07:20 GMT |
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Mozilla's experimental social networking and sharing add-on for Firefox, F1 is getting a major update. At this stage, since Mozilla is still figuring out what works and what doesn't, big changes should be expected and are probably a good thing.The latest version gets better integration with Firefox 4, it�... |
25 March 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Mozilla has tallied the number of Firefox 4 downloads in the first 24 hours it's been available and, while impressive, it's maybe a bit disappointing. Firefox 4 was downloaded 7.1 million times in the first day after launch, significantly more than either Firefox 3.6 or Firefox 3.5. However, it didn't ... |
24 March 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Firefox 4 brings several new security features including Content Security Policy (CSP), HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), a do-not-track anti-behavioral advertising solution and a option to prevent website framing.The Content Security Policy is anti-XSS technology developed by Mozilla and first implemented in Fi... |
23 March 2011
13:08 GMT |
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One of the big reasons preventing most users from upgrading their Firefox to a newer version is add-on compatibility. With each major launch, some add-ons get left behind, mostly because their authors aren't maintaining them anymore or haven't gotten around to updating them.This is true for Firefox 4 as wel... |
23 March 2011
11:45 GMT |
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Firefox 4 is here for the world to enjoy. If you haven't seen the latest version of Mozilla's popular browser in action now is the time to do it. Likewise, if you haven't used it since the early beta stages, you'll notice a big improvement. One key focus for this release was on speed and this is s... |
23 March 2011
07:00 GMT |
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Ladies and gentlemen, Mozilla has finally made available for download the latest and stable version of the highly anticipated Mozilla Firefox 4.0 web browser for Linux, Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures are supported! Yes! The final version of Firefox 4 is finally here, an... |
21 March 2011
04:24 GMT |
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Interestingly enough, days after Google complained about the state of old graphics card drivers and how its affecting the hardware acceleration features in Chrome, Mozilla is now doing the same, highlighting the fact that many drivers are blacklisted due to instability."Firefox 4 brings many new features in the Graph... |
7 March 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Firefox 4 is almost here, the first release candidate is expected as early as next week, so Mozilla wanted to create something to showcase the capabilities of its latest browser as well as the modern web technologies it incorporates. The Web O’ Wonder website is designed as a hub for showing what Firefox 4 can ... |
4 March 2011
05:57 GMT |
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Mozilla has taken another step down the road towards the availability of a final flavor of their Firefox 4 mobile browser for Android and Maemo, with the release of the fifth beta flavor of the application. Based on the same technology as the Firefox 4 for desktop computers, the mobile browser offers a nice range of... |
24 February 2011
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Mozilla Labs has updated its social sharing add-on for Firefox. The latest F1 comes with a very slick new interface, better support for Twitter and Facebook, LinkedIn support and a revamped interface for Gmail. However, the new UI elements are Firefox 4 specific so F1 is dropping support for the older Firefox 3.6."We... |
18 February 2011
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Firefox 4 is in the final polishing phase, but it's still not done yet. That's not keeping part of the Mozilla team from looking forward towards Firefox 5 which is supposed to land only a few months after Firefox 4, according to Mozilla's new release schedule. Among the changes planned for Firefox 5 ar... |
17 February 2011
09:33 GMT |
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The following tutorial will teach every Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 9.10 user how to install the current development version of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 4 web browser. At the request of many of our readers, we've created this tutorial to guide them with the installation of the popular Mozilla ... |
10 February 2011
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A few minutes ago, the second Alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system was made available for testing by the Ubuntu developers. As usual, we've grabbed a copy of it in order to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 11.04 development cycle. What's new i... |
3 February 2011
15:33 GMT |
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It's been a long road, but Firefox 4 is now very close to completion. Firefox 4 Beta 9 has been released, one of the last stages before the final build is launched. While most new betas come with plenty of improvements, many features are now coming together in Firefox 4 Beta 9. With only one more beta and then t... |
15 January 2011
07:18 GMT |
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One of the benefits of having a long beta testing period is all the data you get to collect. The Firefox 4 Beta has been available for months and it came with a version of the Test Pilot add-on pre-installed. This enabled users to send feedback and developers to run regular surveys and usage studies. In the most rece... |
28 December 2010
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Last week, Mozilla made available for download a new version of their mobile browser, Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo, which hit the beta 3 stage, and which is moving fast towards a final flavor. The new release comes with a nice range of changes when compared to the previous releases, and is also the first beta of ... |
27 December 2010
12:41 GMT |
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Mozilla and Opera developers plan to disable WebSocket support in Firefox 4 and Opera 11 because the protocol has been proven vulnerable to attacks.The security issue was discovered by researchers Adam Barth, David Huang, Eric Chen, Eric Rescorla and Collin Jackson, and was documented in a paper released at the end o... |
9 December 2010
06:30 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs has launched an interesting Firefox extension that brings the concept of Google Instant, or more specifically, the new Chrome Instant, to Firefox 4. Dubbed Instant Preview, the new Labs experiment enables Firefox to load web pages as soon as you start typing, based on Awesome Bar suggestions."With Instan... |
9 December 2010
04:43 GMT |
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We are proud to announce today, December 2nd, that the first Alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system is now available for download. As usual, we've grabbed a copy of it in order to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 11.04 development. While all Ubuntu a... |
2 December 2010
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Mozilla Labs has just introduced a very interesting new extension dubbed Lab Kit. The extension is just a placeholder of sorts since it just installs, updates and removes other Mozilla Labs experiments, depending on what the team decides should go in or out. "Mozilla Labs is pleased to announce an easy way for you to... |
3 November 2010
06:42 GMT |
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Just as promised, Mozilla came out with a beta version of its mobile browser designed for Google's Android operating system, codenamed Fennec 2.0, but launched as Firefox 4. The new beta release is aimed both at Android and Maemo-based devices, and comes with a wide range of features similar with those present ... |
8 October 2010
02:25 GMT |
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About a year ago, Mozilla introduced the Test Pilot add-on. The add-on enables Mozilla to run usage studies and surveys to get direct feedback from the users. One of the most valuable was the Menu Item Usage Study which resulted in a lot of insight which has been put to good use in the upcoming Firefox 4. One interes... |
29 September 2010
11:10 GMT |
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Mozilla has just announced a small change that could have a big impact for Firefox extension developers. Specifically, the upcoming Firefox 4 beta will no longer unpack the XPI archive in which extensions are distributed, rather, it will read all of the files from inside the archive. "The next beta of Firefox 4 will... |
24 September 2010
06:51 GMT |
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If you take Google's word for it, the web is all about speed. Even if you agree with that or not, it's clear that this philosophy has been influential for many other companies as well. Chrome has set the benchmark when it comes to browser speed, either perceived or real, and the latest Firefox 4 comes with ... |
20 September 2010
09:01 GMT |
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One of the most appreciated new features in Firefox 4, or at least the most eye-catching, is Panorama, formerly known as Tab Candy. Besides looking rather snazzy, it is also a great way of managing a big number of tabs. And it's about to get even better with search. "There are two modes people use for finding in... |
16 September 2010
10:43 GMT |
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As announced yesterday, Mozilla has released an unscheduled update to the Firefox 4 Beta. Firefox 4 Beta 6, released now, is a minor update fixing a couple of issues that were deemed serious enough to be rolled out immediately and not along with the next planned beta release. "Today we’re releasing an update to... |
15 September 2010
04:54 GMT |
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Mozilla has rolled out the sixth Firefox 4 beta which aims to fix an issue causing rendering errors with plugins affecting Mac OS X users, as well as a stability issue affecting Windows PC users.Based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform, “This Firefox 4 Beta is considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web br... |
15 September 2010
04:35 GMT |
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Mozilla is firing on all cylinders trying to get Firefox 4.0 finished before its self-imposed deadline. While the plan was to release a sixth beta sometime later this month, Mozilla has announced that it will be issuing Firefox 4.0 Beta 6 later today to fix a few issues. Note that this is not the Firefox 4.0 Beta 6 w... |
14 September 2010
05:44 GMT |
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Ever since Google Chrome came out, JavaScript performance has been one of the key aspects of any browser. While Chrome may have kicked off the battle, Opera has been wearing the crow lately.Firefox, unfortunately, has been trailing behind with a significant gap. But thanks to the brand new JavaScript engine built int... |
13 September 2010
15:46 GMT |
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The latest Firefox 4 beta has landed bringing with it a couple of new features like hardware acceleration for Windows users and a new audio API. Firefox 4 Beta 5 also comes with a new security feature which enables sites to force HTTPS connections."The latest update to Firefox 4 Beta brings super fast graphics and in... |
8 September 2010
05:14 GMT |
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Mozilla program manager Mike Beltzner has noted that the next version of Firefox is not supported by PowerPC computers. The update will not offered automatically to users of PPC Macs, going by Beltzner’s post.In response to a tester’s acknowledgement that Firefox 4.0 beta 4 build 3 was inoperable on old P... |
29 August 2010
12:58 GMT |
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One of the interesting things about the Firefox 4 Betas has been the Feedback button based on Test Pilot technology. This enables the developers to know more about the users and their behavior in order to see what works and what doesn't and on what to focus on. Earlier this week the Mozilla Metrics blog publishe... |
27 August 2010
05:40 GMT |
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The fourth beta of Firefox 4 is now available to the public, labeled by Mozilla as a stable release that is safe to use for daily web browsing.“This Firefox 4 Beta is considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing, though the features and content may change before the final product release,&rdqu... |
25 August 2010
04:09 GMT |
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The wait for Firefox 4 is now a little shorter with the release of the third beta of the upcoming web browser. Firefox 4 Beta 3 doesn’t come with much in terms of visual changes, but has some big new features under the hood, notably support for multi-touch in Windows 7 and faster JavaScript rendering, under som... |
12 August 2010
07:05 GMT |
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There’s been a lot of talk about web apps replacing regular desktop apps for more and more tasks. Google is usually at the forefront of this, but only now are browsers starting to adapt and make it easy for users to access their web apps. The latest Google Chrome dev channel builds come with three web apps &lsq... |
15 July 2010
08:35 GMT |
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Firefox 4 Beta 1 is here to give us a taste of things to come. Don’t get too excited about it, it is still a very early release and the final builds are not expected for quite some time to come. But if you’re even the least bit curious about what the Mozilla team has been up to, whether you’re a reg... |
7 July 2010
04:27 GMT |
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Firefox fans have reason to celebrate, the first beta of the upcoming Firefox 4 is here and there’s plenty to like. Firefox 4 Beta 1 is just the first step, of many, towards the final release, but things are shaping up already. The biggest changes will be to the UI, though Linux users won’t notice too man... |
7 July 2010
03:39 GMT |
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