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Windows 7 users have warmed up to Internet Explorer 9 more than they have with any direct rival of this IE version, namely Firefox 4.0 and Chrome 12.
According to statistics from Internet metrics firm Net Applications, this is valid both in the United States and worldwide, with IE9 grabbing the second spot in te... |
1 July 2011
07:09 GMT |
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More than one in a dozen Windows 7 users have upgraded to Internet Explorer 9, and are actively using the browser on a daily basis, according to statistics made available by Internet metrics company, Net Applications. With over 350 million Windows 7 licenses worldwide, I think it’s quite easy to at least get a... |
1 June 2011
08:09 GMT |
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Mozilla is making the death of Firefox 3.5 a priority, and this should not be a real surprise, considering the last update to the open source browser released at the end of April 2011. Version 3.5.19 released last month is the last update that will be delivered to Firefox 3.5. Customers have two new versions of Fire... |
12 May 2011
10:05 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 9 is the best browser available today for those users that value their privacy and understand the need to protect it. When it comes down to user privacy protection, IE9 is superior to all rivals including the latest iteration of Firefox, and especially Chrome. This simply because IE9 puts users in... |
7 May 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 9 will soon pass the 10% usage share on Windows 7, considering the latest iteration of IE’s growth since launch in mid-March 2011. The Redmond company recently announced that over 350 million Windows 7 licenses were sold in the first 18 months since launch, and that sales continue to be stro... |
2 May 2011
07:08 GMT |
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With Firefox 4.0 already released, Mozilla is working on future of its open source browser. As far as new major iterations of Firefox are concerned, users can expect Firefox 5.0 to be offered to them in mid-2011. However, there will also be other releases of the open source browser ahead of v5.0, and one of them is... |
12 April 2011
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It has been a month of unprecedented browser releases. Internet Explorer 9, Chrome 10 and Firefox 4.0 all hit the web in March 2011, giving users a veritable cornucopia when it comes down to browser choices. The final milestones and subsequent downloads and updates produced inevitable measuring contests, although th... |
1 April 2011
04:28 GMT |
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Firefox 4.0 will take the world wide web by storm this year, becoming the most popular browser worldwide by the end of 2011, according to Mozilla. The prediction was made by Asa Dotzler, Director of Community Development at Mozilla, who noted that Firefox 4.0 will grow faster than the recently launched Internet Expl... |
28 March 2011
07:26 GMT |
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Just a few days after the global availability of Firefox 4.0, Mozilla is already offering early adopters a taste of the next version of its open source browser. And despite what has already been said, the successor of Firefox 4.0 is not Firefox 5.0. As I told you earlier this month, Mozilla will provide an interim i... |
24 March 2011
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While Firefox 4.0 undoubtedly captured the spotlight on March 22nd, 2011 hitting general availability, Mozilla made available for download two additional releases of its open source browser. Customers running older versions of Firefox can now update to Firefox 3.6.16 or Firefox 3.5.18, while they also have the optio... |
23 March 2011
08:50 GMT |
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It appears that Mozilla can have its Internet Explorer 9 cake and eat it too. Microsoft has sent an IE9 cake to the rival browser vendor as Mozilla developers were celebrating the global availability of Firefox 4.0. While Firefox 4.0 bits became available for download this Monday, the official launch of the browser ... |
23 March 2011
07:28 GMT |
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A new version of the already popular Firefox mobile browser is now available for download for users of devices based on Google's Android operating system, or on handsets powered by Maemo, namely Firefox 4 (RC).The new release follows a long series of beta versions made available for users of the said OSes, and ... |
22 March 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Users worldwide have been able to download Firefox 4.0 Final since March 21st, 2011 as Softpedia readers know very well, but Mozilla only officially launched the browser today (1.9 million downloads already at the time of this article). Unlike Internet Explorer 9, released to web on March 15, Firefox 4.0 also comes ... |
22 March 2011
14:44 GMT |
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Mozilla is finally launching Firefox 4.0. While the actual Firefox 4.0 builds have been available already, Mozilla has a lot more work to do besides the software itself before it can be ready to launch. But most of the preparations are now done and Firefox 4.0 is ready for download on the main Mozilla page. There... |
22 March 2011
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Firefox 4.0 has been finalized and the bits are now available for download to all users, despite the fact that Mozilla has yet to announce the launch of the next generation of its open source browser. Firefox 4.0 Final is now live on the browser vendor’s FTP servers, and will probably be announced officially e... |
21 March 2011
03:42 GMT |
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It appears that Firefox won’t evolve directly from version 4.0 to 5.0, but that it will take a slight 4.x detour. Christian Legnitto, Firefox release manager revealed that there “will be at least one Firefox 4.x release,” following the general availability of version 4.0 next week. Mozilla has alre... |
18 March 2011
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I have already told you that Mozilla plans to release Firefox 5.0, Firefox 6.0 and Firefox 7.0 by the end of 2011, following the acceleration of its release schedule per the Google Chrome model. Now that Firefox 4.0 has been all but wrapped up, RC1 will become Final and be served to users starting with March 22nd, 2... |
17 March 2011
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Mozilla is preparing to release the next major iteration of its open source browser, with the launch possibly happening in less than a week. Nothing is set in stone at this point in time, but if everything goes well, Firefox 4.0 Final could be released to the public as soon as March 22nd, 2011. Essentially, what Mo... |
16 March 2011
11:35 GMT |
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The near-final Build of Firefox 4.0 has now gone live and is available to early adopters worldwide for testing. Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate (RC1) might very well be the final development milestone of Mozilla’s next generation open source browser. It has certainly taken the browser vendor quite some time to ... |
10 March 2011
02:54 GMT |
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With the RTW (release to web) deadline for Internet Explorer 9 now closer than ever, Microsoft has published the results of a new comparison between the next major iteration of IE and rival browsers. This time around, the software giant used one of the hardware acceleration tests available to the public on the IE Te... |
9 March 2011
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Today’s users have more choices than ever when it comes down to what browser to run, and as soon as Microsoft wraps up Internet Explorer 9, which should be anytime now, they’ll have a new one. Always beneficial, choice fueled by the race between competitive browser makers means that users now have a veri... |
8 March 2011
13:23 GMT |
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The first Release Candidate for Firefox 4.0 is just around the corners, and early adopters that “know their way around” a nightly build can grab a preview of the RC development milestone and start testing it. Firefox 4.0rc1-candidates are now available for download via the browser maker’s FTP serve... |
4 March 2011
13:25 GMT |
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The first Release Candidate of Firefox 4.0 is just around the corner. Mozilla has wrapped up the twelfth Beta development milestone of the next major iteration of its open source browser ahead of schedule. While the browser maker was initially aiming to release Firefox 4.0 Beta 12 early next week, the bits are alrea... |
26 February 2011
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Mozilla is in the finishing stages of the Beta development phase of Firefox 4.0, and is preparing to move beyond it. In this regard, the open source browser maker is now working to wrap up Firefox 4.0 Beta 12, which should ship to early adopters for testing early next week. If everything goes well, testers could be... |
25 February 2011
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Mozilla is closer than ever to the last Beta development milestone of the next iteration of its open source browser. According to Asa Dotzler, Mozilla Director of Community, the twelfth Beta of Firefox 4.0 is scheduled for launch in the week of February 28th, 2011. If all goes well, the open source browser vend... |
24 February 2011
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The twelfth Beta development milestone of Firefox 4.0 is just around the corner. Mozilla has published the first preview Build of Firefox 4.0 Beta 12 making the bits available through its FTP servers. Users need to know that this is just the candidate of Firefox 4.0 Beta 12, and not the full Beta. As such, they migh... |
23 February 2011
12:01 GMT |
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The first Release Candidate of Firefox 4.0 is quite close, although Internet Explorer 9 beat the next version of Mozilla’s open source browser to this milestone. According to Damon Sicore, Mozilla's senior director of platform engineering, Firefox 4.0 is expected to hit RC by the end of February 2011. In... |
16 February 2011
14:09 GMT |
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The twelfth Beta development milestone of Firefox 4.0 also appears to be the last before the next generation of the open source browser graduates to Release Candidate stage. Following the release of Firefox 4.0 Beta 11 Mozilla revealed that although it was planning to release no mere than a dozen Betas, a beta 13 re... |
14 February 2011
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The future of the web is all about apps, the web is not about information alone anymore it's about functionality. But for this to happen, browsers need to be able to carry out increasingly sophisticated tasks. Mozilla is tacking one of the problems with Rainbow, a Firefox add-on that adds video and audio recodin... |
9 February 2011
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Mozilla will finish with Firefox 5.0 what it has started with Firefox 4.0 in terms of support, namely producing a next generation release of its open source browser tailored to 64-bit Windows.Some Softpedia readers might remember that I told you first in May 2010 that Mozilla had started cooking an x64 flavor of Fir... |
8 February 2011
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Mozilla Labs has been the source of plenty of interesting experiments, many that have graduated and became part of Firefox or full-fledged projects. Home Dash is one of the most exciting yet, if only because it's such a radical new approach to a browser UI. It's also iterating at a fast pace, the latest upd... |
8 February 2011
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UPDATE: Firefox 4.0 Beta 11 is now available for download. Although the eleventh beta for Firefox 4.0 is not quite here yet, the vast majority of the work for this particular development milestone has already been completed and the release is extremely close. Mozilla was considering making Firefox 4.0 Beta 11 a... |
8 February 2011
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Gone are the days when users had to wait as much as a year between major iterations of Firefox. Mozilla is planning to release no less than 4 new versions of its open source browser by the end of this year. Firefox 4.0, Firefox 5.0, Firefox 6.0 and Firefox 7.0 will all ship in 2011, the open source browser vendor co... |
7 February 2011
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Mozilla has already made available for download two preview releases of the upcoming development milestone for Firefox 4.0. Early adopters can now grab and start testing 4.0b11-candidates, which are essentially pre-Beta 11 nightly builds of Firefox 4.0. Users should be aware that there are just candidate releases o... |
3 February 2011
10:24 GMT |
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Firefox 4.0 Beta 12 has become more of a sure thing and less of a plan “B” for Mozilla, which is still struggling to fix all the severe bugs preventing the successor of Firefox 3.6 from being finalized and released. Las week, when I first wrote about Mozilla exploring the possibility of delivering no les... |
2 February 2011
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By the time that Mozilla gets done with the Beta phase of the development process there might be as many as a dozen Builds of the next iteration of the open source browser ahead of the first Release Candidate (RC). Having suffered numerous delays, only 10 Beta Builds of Firefox 4.0 were slated for delivery initially... |
28 January 2011
10:22 GMT |
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If you thought Firefox Panorama was innovative, you haven't seen anything yet. Mozilla Labs' Home Dash completely re-invents the browser UI and introduces some very interesting concepts. Essentially, it gets rid of all the Firefox UI elements and all you're left with is the actual website. The UI that ... |
27 January 2011
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Firefox 4.0 is one step closer to being wrapped up and ready for the public, now that the tenth Beta development milestone has been made available for download. Mozilla has released Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 and is already looking forward to offering early adopters the Beta 11 Build for testing. Firefox 4.0 Beta 10 was b... |
26 January 2011
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It appears that Mozilla is at least exploring the possibility of an accelerating release pace for major Firefox iterations per the Google Chrome model, if not already working to make it a reality. In this regard, users could be running the successor of Firefox 4.0 very soon after its release. How soon? Well, accord... |
24 January 2011
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Although the initial plan was to release the tenth Beta development milestone of Firefox 4.0 and then move to the Release Candidate stage, it now appears that the next iteration of the open source browser will linger in Beta just a tad longer. How much longer? Well, for at least one extra release. Fact is that Firefo... |
21 January 2011
10:43 GMT |
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Mozilla is moving forward with plans to deliver a total of 10 Beta development milestones for the next iteration of its open source browser. Having released Firefox 4.0 Beta 9 recently, the browser maker is now focusing on the next testing release, Beta 10. Mozilla needs to get Beta 10 out the door as soon as possi... |
20 January 2011
10:33 GMT |
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The ninth Beta development milestone of Firefox 4.0 is now available for download. Although Mozilla has yet to announce officially the general availability of Firefox 4.0 Beta 9, the bits are already live on the company’s FTP servers. Softpedia readers have been able to read about the imminent launch of Firef... |
14 January 2011
10:29 GMT |
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Although it is yet to officially announce the ninth beta release of its Firefox 4 web browser, a Mac-compatible build has been uploaded to the company’s servers and is immediately available for download.
Mozilla’s Firefox 4 Beta page still serves the eighth release in the Firefox 4.0 milestone, yet tho... |
14 January 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Mozilla is just a few months away from offering Firefox 4.0 Final to users worldwide, with the browser maker looking to wrap up the next iteration of its open source browser by the end of February 2011. Firefox 4.0 should have been completed no later than November 2010, but consistent delays plagued the project as t... |
13 January 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Mozilla is extremely close to releasing the ninth Beta development milestone of Firefox 4.0. In fact, the open source browser maker has already produced the Candidate Builds for Firefox 4.0 Beta 9 and is allowing early adopters to play around with them. For the time being 4.0b9-candidates are all that testers will b... |
11 January 2011
10:29 GMT |
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Mozilla is gearing up to release the ninth Beta of the next iteration of its open source browser. According to the open source browser maker, the current plan is to have Firefox 4.0 offered to testers next week. Following a range of delays which impacted the Firefox 4.0 project, the Beta 9 development milestone was... |
7 January 2011
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HTML5 and the batch of new web technologies promise to transform the online space, making the web a true platform for applications. And what better way to showcase this than with games for the web than run in every browser without any plugins, which is exactly what Mozilla is trying to prove with the Game On competit... |
5 January 2011
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Firefox 4.0 may still be at least a couple of months away, but progress is being made. The latest betas are quite close to the finished product and Mozilla is encouraging developers to update their add-ons for Firefox 4.0 compatibility. It's doing more than encouraging in fact, it's actually 'bribing&#... |
30 December 2010
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Firefox 4 has been in the works for many, many months now and there's been a beta available for more than half a year. In fact, Mozilla's upcoming browser was initially supposed to land before the end of 2010. An early spring release is looking more likely at this point, and Firefox 4 is still getting some ... |
30 December 2010
06:35 GMT |
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The next development milestone of Firefox 4.0 will be shipped in early 2011, with Beta 8 currently available for testing.The fact that Mozilla will only be able to deliver Beta 9 no earlier than January 2011 is a true measure of the delays that hit the project. Some users might remember that the initial plan was to... |
22 December 2010
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