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Firefox is becoming faster and faster. The most recent versions have made significant improvements, both in memory usage and in responsiveness. It can get better, obviously, and the team is working on it. But there is something you can do right now that has the potential of significantly speeding up your browser, dep... |
19 May 2012
13:01 GMT |
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One of Firefox's key strengths has always been the strong add-on ecosystem. The advantage endures even as other players, notably Chrome, have developed a solid ecosystem of their own. But add-ons depend on contributors even more than the browser itself which is why Mozilla is asking add-on users to contribute a... |
24 April 2012
14:31 GMT |
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There's a lot of talk about browser performance and a lot of boasting about which is the fastest and why. But synthetic benchmarks and the latest and greatest JavaScript engine means little when you've got other things slowing down your browser, things you're in control of.
The biggest cause for brows... |
19 April 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Version 2.3.7 of NoScript is out, getting rid of some bugs that prevented the correct functioning of the add-on. The new revision does not bring to the table any new features, only a small set of repairs.Among the modifications featured by the new revision, there is a workaround for “rapid fire” protectio... |
10 April 2012
09:09 GMT |
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Mozilla is providing an update on the McAfee Firefox add-on that was found to cause serious issues. At the time, some Mozilla contributors argued that the add-on should be blocked/blacklisted until the problem was fixed. Such drastic measures are not generally favored by Mozilla, but the foundation has in the past ... |
28 February 2012
05:13 GMT |
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Mozilla has always relied on add-ons to expand Firefox and it's continuing to do so with a couple of new developments, extensions for the mobile Firefox and the brand new Add-on Builder 1.0, a web-based add-on creator and editor.
"After a year in incubation we’re ready to remove the beta tag from the Add-... |
23 February 2012
08:31 GMT |
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The Jetpack project has long left the experimental label behind and the Mozilla Add-ons SDK, as it is now known, has now reached version 1.5. It's been getting small updates and improvements for a while now, but what makes this latest release special is support for mobile extensions, something that developers an... |
22 February 2012
15:31 GMT |
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It looks like Internet Explorer, but all underpinning is Mozilla’s work. A Firefox in IE9 clothing is what you get with FoxE9 add-on, as it is designed to apply Microsoft’s web browser design to Mozilla Firefox.The result is pretty simple to guess, but the amazing thing is the perfect resemblance. Looking... |
17 February 2012
11:25 GMT |
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Mozilla has a lot planned for Firefox this year. One thing its working on is a "reader" mode or a "focus mode" as Mozilla calls it. Essentially, it's building into Firefox something that plenty of add-ons have done before.The idea is to surface the actual content on a site and presented in a very readable and ea... |
15 February 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Mozilla is testing an interesting new feature in the upcoming Firefox 10, now in beta, the ability to fix issues and release patches of sorts via an add-on rather than a full browser update.
It's easy to see the advantages of this, even Firefox's semi-automated update process involves a lot of hassle and o... |
23 January 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Mozilla's Add-ons site is one of the most visited in the world and, while many of the features for discovering and installing add-ons are already built inside Firefox or Thunderbird, the site remains a very popular destination for Mozilla fans.The site has been getting a makeover for the past few months and it&#... |
21 October 2011
11:16 GMT |
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Mozilla is looking at several ways of dealing with the problem of out-of-date add-ons for Firefox which has become a lot worse now that a new Firefox is coming once every six weeks.
Before Firefox 4, all add-ons had to be manually updated to make them compatible with whatever the new version was.
This wouldn�... |
5 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced that it's halting automatic updates to Firefox 7 until it fixes an add-on issue that has popped up. Some add-ons become hidden, though not deleted, when users upgrade to the latest Firefox 7, on both desktop and mobile.
Mozilla has stopped updates to minimize the impact and will have a p... |
29 September 2011
05:41 GMT |
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The Mozilla Add-ons (AMO) website is undergoing a major revamp. A new design is being deployed to various parts of the site and now pretty much the entire site has been converted. There are also some changes for Aurora and Beta users, who will now be able to install add-ons that may be incompatible more easily.
Th... |
2 September 2011
10:17 GMT |
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Browser add-ons are great. It all started with Firefox offering the functionality and it's still probably the browser with the most add-ons. That said, while many are great, most add-ons feel bolted on and adding several of them can quickly turn Firefox into a mess. Part of the problem is that Firefox has allowe... |
18 August 2011
05:11 GMT |
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Add-ons have always been one of Firefox's major selling points and other browser makers have copied the idea with great success as well. Now, Mozilla has finally released exact numbers indicating just how popular add-ons are with Firefox, specifically Firefox 4 users.Thanks to the data now available, Mozilla rev... |
22 June 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Switching an entire organization, especially one that relies on the community so much, to a whole new development process in the manner of months is hard, but Mozilla seems to be doing all right. Firefox 5 is well underway and should be landing in a couple of weeks and Firefox 6 is already in the works, coming six we... |
8 June 2011
11:31 GMT |
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With the switch to the rapid release cycle came an interesting problem for Mozilla, one that creeped up only occasionally for the group, add-on compatibility. With each major release, add-on developers had to update their creations to ensure they still worked. But with new versions coming out every six weeks, that�... |
21 May 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Mozilla is going through quite a lot of changes right now. It's transitioning to a multi-channel Firefox release, with a fresh new build every six weeks, so everything related to it is affected, including add-ons. One of the major concerns with each Firefox release until now was add-on compatibility, since devel... |
5 May 2011
12:20 GMT |
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Browser add-ons are a great way of bolting on new functionality and customizing the experience to a high degree. But they're also a great way of slowing down browser quite a lot, which is why Mozilla is introducing several new measures to cut down on poorly optimized add-ons for Firefox. "Firefox performance is ... |
2 April 2011
09:01 GMT |
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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
08:05 GMT |
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The Mozilla Jetpack project has come a long way and is now close to releasing the first production-ready build. The Mozilla Add-on SDK 1.0 beta 1 has been announced. Along with the name change - the Jetpack moniker has been dropped in favor of the more generic Add-on SDK - the release is labeled as a "feature-stable"... |
10 December 2010
06:30 GMT |
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One of Firefox's biggest innovations were browser add-ons. Its add-on platform enabled third-party developers to build new functionality for the browser and cater to any user need out there. Mozilla is now celebrating a major milestone, the first browser add-on to pass the 100 million downloads mark, AdBlock Plu... |
17 November 2010
06:10 GMT |
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Contacts in the Browser has just been updated. The Firefox add-on which aims to make it easier to manage contacts within the web browser just added a bunch of new features as progress is done at a fast pace. While most of Mozilla is working on bringing Firefox 4.0 by the end of this year, which seems unlikely, a hand... |
23 October 2010
07:20 GMT |
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Add-ons are arguably one of Firefox's biggest feature and over the years developers have created a huge number of them to cover any use case. But with so many of them, there was a need to better manage a bunch of them at a time, so collections were created.The feature is now getting an update, making it easier t... |
6 September 2010
15:25 GMT |
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Adblock Plus is the most popular extension for Mozilla Firefox and there's hardly a Firefox user than hasn't at least heard of it. But popularity alone doesn't pay the bills, like many, many add-on developers out there, its creator worked on it in his spare time, as a side-project. That has recently ch... |
25 August 2010
13:01 GMT |
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If you could name just one feature that made Firefox as popular as it is today, most people would probably say add-ons. A great idea that turned into an indispensable feature which most other browsers, including Safari recently, have adopted. Mozilla is now announcing that, in the five years they’ve been av... |
2 July 2010
03:14 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs has put the finishing touches on Test Pilot, a Firefox add-on designed to help Mozilla study the behavior and preferences of the browser’s users in order to improve it, and is now releasing Test Pilot 1.0. The milestone release comes after almost a year’s work and is an incremental update fro... |
1 July 2010
08:42 GMT |
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The web has been evolving for the past two decades at a furious pace and, while most people would agree it has been for the best, the fact is, it’s as much of a mess as it was in the mid-nineties. That’s actually a good thing, for the most part, but there is no grand plan, no set-in-stone right and wrong ... |
7 June 2010
11:57 GMT |
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Mozilla has some very capable engineers working on its biggest project, the Firefox web browser, and thousands of volunteer contributors from around the world. But it still needs some info and data from the actual users to know on which areas and features to focus development. One way it has been acquiring this data ... |
6 April 2010
07:00 GMT |
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With Google Chrome getting extensions a few months ago, it looked like the battle was finally heating up between the two biggest 'alternative' web browsers on the market. The number of extensions for Google Chrome has been growing steadily, it's now close to 4,000 extensions, but it's still nowher... |
25 March 2010
07:06 GMT |
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Mozilla is yet again looking ahead and trying to shape the browsing experience, adapting to the latest online trends. It is working on integrating identity features into the browser and, now, Mozilla Labs is announcing another similar project, dubbed Contacts, which, predictably, adds a contacts manager to Firefox. T... |
18 March 2010
06:55 GMT |
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As Facebook and Google battle it out to become the gatekeepers to your online identity, Mozilla is proposing an alternative, rather than having an online site or service provide you with identity features, why not have your browser play that role. The idea was first explored a few months ago, and the first steps are ... |
12 March 2010
04:51 GMT |
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The second stage of the Mozilla Jetpack extensions platform project is getting underway with the release of the first iteration of the new Jetpack SDK. The goal is to completely rewrite the Jetpack platform using the lessons learned in the first experimental series, but focusing more on scalability, stability and ext... |
10 March 2010
09:22 GMT |
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Tucked away in a Google Chrome status update post for developers on the official Chromium blog is one tidbit of information that is easy to underestimate. The Google Chrome online extensions gallery now hosts more than 3,000 extensions just three months after being launched. That may or may not sound like a big numbe... |
8 March 2010
05:48 GMT |
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There are plenty of services out there trying to help you figure out what you like, well, what you would like if you only knew about it. And there are plenty more sites that try to predict what might be relevant, useful or entertaining for you from Google search to Last.fm and Netflix. That said social network/browse... |
4 March 2010
07:08 GMT |
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For a few years, the biggest single advantage Firefox had over its competitors were the highly popular add-ons, which bolt on functionality to the basic browser. Granted, for most of this time, it didn't really have any competitor. Internet Explorer was the de facto browser for most people not by choice but simp... |
3 February 2010
14:21 GMT |
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Digg has been evolving fast in the past year and it’s not done yet. It has several new revenue streams which should keep it in the clear financially, at least for now, and it's making some deep changes to the service in order to counter new threats like Twitter. One way is with the newish Digg API which s... |
20 January 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Firebug, the popular web development and debugging add-on for Firefox, has gotten a major update reaching version number 1.5.0. It's probably the biggest update since 1.0 and after six months of work and 36 alpha and beta releases, users should definitely be looking forward to the new release.The dev team ... |
20 January 2010
03:54 GMT |
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Mozilla has just released a new version of its Firefox customization extension Personas. The feature allows users to change the look of their browser with easy to install themes from a gallery that now boasts close to 30,000 models to choose from. Personas 1.3 introduces the possibility to automatically change the th... |
5 October 2009
06:08 GMT |
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Just last week Facebook reminded users of the options they had for ignoring unwanted friend requests and the social network is trying to make it as painless and subtle as possible for all parties involved. Another issue that got the same treatment was removing a friend from your list, which was also a subtle action w... |
1 September 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Firefox is now the second most popular web browser in the world, with a roughly 20 percent share of the market, no small feat considering that just a few years ago most users didn't even know other browsers besides Internet Explorer existed. It still has a lot of potential growth ahead of it, though, but, with f... |
17 August 2009
05:20 GMT |
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Most companies and experts agree that semantic search is the future, yet few have been able to get any real results. Many have tried, with varying degrees of success, most recently Wolfram Alpha, but the fact remains that computers, even with their ever-increasing power and ever-improving algorithms, still have big p... |
23 June 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Having a site that loads fast is very important as users don't like to wait while your site is loading and might just as well go somewhere else. But the first step in optimizing your site is finding out how long it takes to load, and a very useful tool for this is the Firefox add-on Yslow, created by Yahoo to he... |
29 May 2009
10:51 GMT |
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