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Almost a year ago, a team from Mozilla started working on a pure JavaScript PDF renderer. The idea was to be able to view PDF files found online in the browser without relying on a third-party plugin. It started out as an extension, but now comes built into Firefox in the nightly builds.
The need for a "native" PDF ... |
26 March 2012
04:14 GMT |
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Firefox 4 and the subsequent deluge of releases has been too much to swallow for some people who stuck with their tried and tested Firefox 3.6. To some it was a problem of add-on compatibility, for others things simply moved too fast.Whatever the reason, all these users need to start thinking about life after Firefox... |
24 March 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Firefox may sound like the name of a mythical animal, or your favorite browser, but they are real. They're not actually foxes, or even related to foxes, and they're not, as you may imagine, on fire.
What they are though is very, very cute. To celebrate Firefox's mascot and to give you a daily dose of ... |
23 March 2012
11:41 GMT |
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Mozilla is working on switching over to HTTPS Google Search by default in Firefox. What this means is that any search initiated from the Firefox search box, the AwesomeBar and, crucially, for search suggestions as well, will be done over a secured HTTPS channel rather than the open HTTP. It's a big move since F... |
22 March 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Google Chrome has been constantly growing in popularity around the world. Google's browser has been gaining up on Firefox, even overtaking it depending on who you ask, and catching up to Internet Explorer as well.
Still, it was firmly in second or third place, with IE having a big lead. But for one day, this we... |
21 March 2012
11:01 GMT |
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For a long time, Mozilla was more than happy to allow others to create web developer tools for Firefox, Firebug was the gold standard for many years. But last year Mozilla made the decision that it couldn't rely on others anymore and that it needed to step up its game in this department.
And stepped up it has, ... |
20 March 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Firefox 11 was released last week and, by now, many if not most Firefox users should be running it. Firefox 12 was graduated to the beta channel soon after that and now Firefox 13 makes its debut in the Aurora channel. Anyone who's been following Firefox in recent months knows that the Aurora channel is where t... |
20 March 2012
06:28 GMT |
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It’s been a while since we heard the talks about a new tab page in Firefox and a new homepage. Well, those days are over since these modifications are finally available in the latest Firefox Aurora.
Besides receiving a new tab page (sports nine slots showing most recent and most accessed pages) and a changed d... |
20 March 2012
04:13 GMT |
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Mozilla has been losing quite a lot of good people lately. The latest to join the exile is Chris Blizzard who has been involved with Mozilla and Firefox for more than a decade. Blizzard has decided to move on and will join a small startup in Palo Alto.
He's the latest in a string of high-profile departures at M... |
19 March 2012
12:21 GMT |
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It's official, Mozilla will start supporting the proprietary H.264 video codec at first on mobile devices that come with hardware decoding and encoding for the format. Moving forward, solutions will be drawn for the desktop version of Firefox as well, though the avenue for doing this hasn't been chosen yet.... |
19 March 2012
11:12 GMT |
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Mozilla is highlighting an add-on produced by its experimental Mozilla Labs arm, dubbed Password Age Visualizer which does pretty much exactly what it says it does. The idea is to enable users to know for how long they've been using a password.
The longer it's been in use the less secure it tends to become... |
15 March 2012
10:36 GMT |
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2011 has been a transformative year for Mozilla and Firefox, perhaps the most eventful since launch. No more big, disruptive changes are planned for this year, but that doesn't mean that things will go quiet or that things will slow down.Mozilla has listed some of the things it's focusing on this year,... |
14 March 2012
16:21 GMT |
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A long time ago (a couple of years ago) the HTML5 video wars, with the patent-encumbered H.264 pitted against the open and Google-backed WebM, were grabbing everyone's attention. Sides were chosen, battles were waged. Things quieted down after an while and it seems, unlikely or not, that the Mozilla-Google group... |
14 March 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Firefox 11 is officially here. Regular users have a couple of features to play with, a big one is add-on sync. But developers are probably a lot happier with the latest release, the set of web development tools that Mozilla has been building into Firefox has expanded to contain a stylesheet editor and writer as well ... |
14 March 2012
08:04 GMT |
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A new flavor of the Firefox browser is now available for download for devices running under Google’s Android operating system. The new release, Firefox 10.0.3, was just pushed in the stable channel to accompany the availability of the final flavor of Firefox 11 for desktop. There are no new features included wi... |
14 March 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Even though initially Mozilla revealed that Firefox 11’s release might be delayed due to some security concerns, the company managed to keep on schedule. The latest variant of the popular web browser comes with 5 critical and 3 moderate severity security improvements.
The critical vulnerabilities could be lev... |
14 March 2012
04:23 GMT |
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Despite the announcement about delaying the launch of Firefox 11, Mozilla managed to release the web browser on the scheduled day. The new revision is now officially available for download.
The modifications available in Firefox 11 include new features, such as importing bookmarks, history and cookies from Google Ch... |
14 March 2012
03:52 GMT |
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Firefox 11 is almost here. There was some uncertainty over whether it was going to be released on time, with a couple of issues holding it back, but Mozilla decided to go ahead with the scheduled release, though the new version won't be pushed via the automated update channels for at least a few more days, meani... |
13 March 2012
12:13 GMT |
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Mozilla’s new Firefox 11 has reached its final phase, and while customers can already download and install the binary, the official release notes are yet to make an appearance.In fact, Mozilla hasn’t made the release official at all. However, going by the change log for the latest Firefox beta, the new Fi... |
13 March 2012
12:10 GMT |
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We already reported that the official release of Firefox 11 would be delayed, but the launch date should not be too far away since the new version has been uploaded to Mozilla’s FTP. You can also download it from Softpedia. Johnathan Nightingale, senior director of Firefox Engineering, announced that the updat... |
13 March 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Soon, Mozilla will make available for download a new flavor of their Firefox browser for devices running under Google’s Android operating system. The new application release will bring along a major change, as Mozilla chose to pack it with a Native Android UI, instead of the original appearance. Through th... |
13 March 2012
06:37 GMT |
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Postponing the release of a new stable version for Firefox is official: Jonathan Nightingale, Senior Director of Firefox Engineering, has announced the decision on Mozilla’s blog. One of the reasons at the root of this choice is Microsoft’s release of their monthly update, which may have a negative impac... |
13 March 2012
06:26 GMT |
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When made available for the upcoming Windows 8 operating system, Mozilla’s Firefox web browser will benefit from a level of integration similar to the one available for Internet Explorer. Mozilla has already started the work on the Metro-Style flavor of the application, and they now have a proof of concept. We... |
12 March 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Absolute, a x86 Linux distribution based upon Slackware that concentrates on "desktop" use so that it is ready for Internet, multimedia, document and general home use out of the box, is now at version 13.50. Being a lightweight distribution, Absolute runs on older hardware and the OS interface stays out of your way. ... |
12 March 2012
11:49 GMT |
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According to their release schedule, Mozilla should offer Firefox 11 stable tomorrow. However, a few problems may delay the launch.
Some of the issues that may deter the development team from delivering Firefox 11 according to the plan, there is the security hole uncovered during the Pwn2Own contest at CanSecWest. S... |
12 March 2012
10:39 GMT |
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SPDY, the alternative to HTTP proposed by Google is slowly gaining strength. Granted, it's got a long way to go, but Twitter has started adopting it and using it by default, with browsers that support it.SPDY, as the name implies, was devised to speed up internet connections. Google is working on several fronts ... |
10 March 2012
07:11 GMT |
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FlashGot, the Firefox and Thunderbird add-on for downloading items, has been updated to version 1.4. It had only two release candidates before, which took care of a compatibility issue and a bug in HTTP Authorization data handling. These were actually the only obstacles standing between a release candidate and the s... |
5 March 2012
08:18 GMT |
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Not that long ago, Mozilla started working on a new theme system which would make it easier for designers to create new themes for Firefox and easier for users to install them. The project was dubbed Personas and it was a huge success. Now there are tens of thousands of personas and a huge number of people use them.... |
2 March 2012
08:45 GMT |
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Google Chrome may be seeing a bit of a rough patch in the browser market, at least according to some numbers, but things are also moving in strange directions elsewhere. Moving may not be the best choice of words, as the browser market has been rather static in February, even more so than usual.
The top dog, Interne... |
1 March 2012
17:01 GMT |
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HTTPS Everywhere is a very handy extension that should probably come as a default option in browsers, which forces sites to use a secure encrypted connection whenever possible, even if this is not the default configuration for the site. Some sites occasionally don't behave well with the extension, but it's... |
1 March 2012
13:31 GMT |
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There's a lot of discussion about privacy and tracking on the web these days. There's plenty of hyperbole, but the issue is real, people generally give up certain amounts of expected privacy to use websites and web services. It's pretty much a given and it's a barter everyone has to make to enjoy ... |
29 February 2012
08:32 GMT |
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Mozilla's drive to build a device and platform agnostic market place for apps is taking shape. It's been working on it for a while and has now announced that it is taking app submissions for the Mozilla Marketplace which is slated to go live sometime later this year.
For now, developers can secure their sp... |
29 February 2012
04:43 GMT |
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Web apps have always been a second rate citizen compared to native apps. Things are changing, but that's still mostly the case. Slowly though, one step at a time, web apps are becoming just as powerful or as capable as regular desktop applications.
Case in point is a new Gmail integration feature that enables u... |
28 February 2012
05:51 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 fourth beta for Firefox 11 is planned for release tomorrow, but the build is readily available for download at the moment. Mozilla plans to push to the old beta testers the latest beta revision of their web browser through the automatic updates system, which is normally used for minor updates, on Friday.
As a re... |
23 February 2012
07:40 GMT |
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Mozilla's identity project, BrowserID, is moving forward and now it's got a new name, one that will feel familiar to Firefox users nonetheless, Mozilla Persona. Persona will be the name of the user-facing service offered by Mozilla which enables users to manage their online identities, profiles and accounts... |
23 February 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Mozilla has made a big announcement regarding its open web apps platform, it is going to start taking submissions from developers. That means that devs can start getting their web apps ready for distribution in the Mozilla Marketplace."Today, we are incredibly proud to announce that the Mozilla Marketplace will open ... |
22 February 2012
16:41 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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Mozilla is working on a rather interesting set of developer tools for Firefox. It's expanding with each new Firefox as more components are added. A JavaScript debugger is now on its way, promising to be a big improvement over the existing tools. The new debugger is far from ready, but the code is now part of th... |
20 February 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Add-ons are a great way of expanding the functionality of a browser as well as adding features that would only interest a few people. Unfortunately, add-ons are also one of the easiest ways of slowing down your browser, adding instability, memory usage and so on.Mozilla is in a delicate position when it comes to add-... |
18 February 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Firefox's Download Manager has been in need of attention for years. It's been ignored by the developers so far though, but thankfully users have had add-ons like Download Status bar to replace the default manager. However, Mozilla has been working on a replacement, a rather interesting one at that.
The new... |
18 February 2012
11:51 GMT |
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A few days after it released Firefox 10.0.1 to address some major issues, Mozilla already made available the 10.0.2 variant of both the popular web browser and Thunderbird to resolve a vulnerability that exists in the libpng graphics library. The libpng library contains an exploitable integer overflow bug that an a... |
18 February 2012
06:59 GMT |
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Build 23 for Avant Browser has just been made available, changing the Firefox engine to version 10.0.1, although a new revision has been launched today by Mozilla. It also adds the Ctrl+Shift+Del hotkey for deleting history.
Apart from this, there are three fixes referring to Gecko engine. These take care of problem... |
17 February 2012
08:17 GMT |
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Today, Mozilla has made available for download a new flavor of its Android mobile browser, namely Firefox for Android 10.0.2. We have managed to find the changelog for the new browser version, so have a look at it below. There are no release notes attached to the new app flavor, but it appears that it migh... |
17 February 2012
05:52 GMT |
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The reason that caused this chemspill is a security issue, which, at the moment, remains undisclosed. However, it looks like it’s serious stuff, since the vulnerability was present in all builds and versions of Mozilla's web browser as well as Thunderbird email client. And they really mean every build and... |
17 February 2012
04:41 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 has big plans for 2012. While 2011 saw the introduction of Firefox 4 and the brand new user interface created for it, updates and changes were few after that. But there is a big redesign in the works, it's been in the concept stage for a while now.
Work is still being done, but the latest mockups are t... |
14 February 2012
15:31 GMT |
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2011 was a transition year for Mozilla, it moved from its tried and tested, but also slow, release cycle to a much faster one where a new Firefox comes out every six weeks. The move hasn't always been smooth, but Mozilla has worked out most of the kinks. Now, that the wheels are in motion and Firefox adds more ... |
14 February 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 10 won’t be the only browser that Windows 8 users will be able to enjoy on their devices starting later this year.
Mozilla is also looking into bringing its Firefox browser to Windows 8, and has already offered some details on how it aims to make the move.
However, the company notes that ... |
14 February 2012
08:52 GMT |
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