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Mozilla has just released Firefox 22 Beta 2, a new testing version of the browser that packs several improvements and bug fixes. Since it’s a beta, Mozilla has focused especially on the developer side of the app, so the second beta of version 22 now comes with improvements for JavaScript Maps and Sets, the HTM... |
23 May 2013
02:04 GMT |
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Mozilla, like all other browser creators, is fighting with software makers who use aggressive means to promote their tools and get people to use them, even if it means changing the browser homepage, search engine, and so on.
Sometimes, people really want four toolbars one on top of the other and to change their sear... |
22 May 2013
19:01 GMT |
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Firefox's dev tools are already quite powerful, but Mozilla hasn't stopped adding new ones. In the latest Firefox 23 Aurora, the developer tools are becoming even more useful.
Finally, the tools get a full-blown network monitor. Most network data was available via the web console, but you can now discover ... |
21 May 2013
08:28 GMT |
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The Firefox Marketplace is going to be Mozilla's app store. It's already Mozilla's app store, but it won't be all that useful or used until Firefox OS comes out. That's not necessarily a bad thing; it means Mozilla has time to work on it.
In fact, the Marketplace has gotten a redesign, a co... |
20 May 2013
13:21 GMT |
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OS X users eagerly awaiting the next major release of Firefox will be glad to learn that Mozilla has carried out some nifty work in the latest alpha build specifically targeting Macs. It’s going to be a long time before Mozilla pushes out Firefox 23.0 Final for Mac, but the earliest test builds are already beg... |
20 May 2013
03:03 GMT |
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Mozilla has officially announced that the second release in the Firefox 23.x branch is now available for download on the Linux platform.
The Linux binaries for Mozilla Firefox 23.0 Alpha 2 have been made available and you can download it now, without having to install anything.
The new Firefox 23 Alpha 2 (Aurora) f... |
20 May 2013
02:54 GMT |
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Firefox 23 has made it to the Aurora channel and, while it may not be rich on new features, there are a couple of interesting additions and changes. For one, Mozilla is continuing with the mixed content blocking experiment, the feature is now turned on by default. The idea is to prevent pages served via encrypted co... |
18 May 2013
17:11 GMT |
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Mozilla is backing down on its decision to block third-party cookies by default in Firefox. Initially, the feature was supposed to be part of Firefox 22. But now that it's in the beta channel, third-party cookie blocking has been disabled by default.
Apple has been doing this for years with Safari, and Mozilla ... |
18 May 2013
08:01 GMT |
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Mozilla's asm.js is growing up fast, and it's already supported by Firefox 22 Beta. But technologies only supported by one browser don't get very far on the web. Granted, asm.js is just JavaScript, but a full-blown app converted to asm.js would run painfully slow in other browsers. Thankfully, Googl... |
17 May 2013
18:01 GMT |
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A few weeks back, Mozilla showcased the rather impressive asm.js, a technology that makes it possible to convert C/C++ apps to JavaScript and only take a minor performance hit. This, in turn, makes it possible to run powerful apps and even games inside the browser using only stock and standard technologies. F... |
17 May 2013
09:34 GMT |
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Mozilla has officially announced that the first Beta release in the Firefox 22.x branch is now available for download on the Linux platform.
The Linux binaries for Mozilla Firefox 22.0 Beta 1 have been made available and you can download it now, without having to install anything.
The new and improved Firefox comes... |
17 May 2013
05:31 GMT |
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Firefox 23 Aurora isn't out yet, but it should become available any time now. Mozilla is already talking about it and the major new feature, a new Mixed Content Blocker UI.
Firefox already had the ability to block unencrypted content served through encrypted pages.
This is important because the web today is ... |
17 May 2013
05:01 GMT |
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The download for the beta version of Firefox 22 has been available for download for some time, but Mozilla made available official details about the revision only recently. Among the most important changes is WebRTC being turned on by default. On Windows, the browser now takes into account the display scaling option... |
17 May 2013
02:35 GMT |
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On May 14, Canonical published details about Thunderbird vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems in a security notice.
According to Canonical, several security issues have been fixed in Thunderbird.
For example, a use-after-free has been discovered when resizing vi... |
15 May 2013
17:40 GMT |
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Although it is no longer actively developed, Mozilla Thunderbird continues to receive updates and the most recent one, as expected, benefited from a small number of fixes.
Among the most significant security issues (labeled “critical”) fixed in this release are memory corruption problems identified using... |
15 May 2013
05:04 GMT |
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Mozilla officially released Thunderbird 17.0.6 for Linux, an email and RSS client, featuring just a few security fixes.
This is just a minor update for Mozilla Thunderbird, as it can be easily seen from the small number of changes and fixes.
Highlights of Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0.6:
• Thunderbird now supports... |
15 May 2013
02:43 GMT |
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On May 14, Canonical published details about Firefox vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.
For example, multiple memory safety issues have been... |
15 May 2013
02:23 GMT |
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Firefox 21 is here, bringing with it a new experimental feature which has the potential of making life a lot easier for Firefox users.
The Firefox Health Report, as the name suggests, keeps track of the browser's status and will eventually provide means to improve performance or fix issues.
For now, all it do... |
14 May 2013
18:00 GMT |
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Firefox 21 has reached the stable stage. As with most releases these days, there are only a few notable additions, but each new feature only makes the browser better.
One of new features that stands out is support for more providers added to the Social API. Mozilla started experimenting with the Social API late las... |
14 May 2013
16:54 GMT |
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The stable release for Firefox 21 has been officially released and is currently available for all desktop platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux).
The new features do not come as a surprise because they’ve been announced from the beta. The Social API expands the number of supported providers with Cliqz, Mixi and ms... |
14 May 2013
14:39 GMT |
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Although it has not been released officially, Firefox 21 is available for download as Mozilla uploaded the new major version of the browser on their servers. The fresh build is expected to roll out later today. One of the new features expected in this revision is the three-state UI for Do Not Track feature (DNT). Th... |
14 May 2013
05:24 GMT |
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Mozilla is still working on a Metro flavor of its popular Firefox browser, with new details posted on the Wiki development site revealing that the stable build should be here by November. The current development timeline of the project points to a November 19 release date, even though Mozilla admits that the Modern ... |
10 May 2013
01:03 GMT |
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WebP, the new image format from Google, has been struggling to get recognition, let alone adoption. But that's true for all new standard file formats, and WebP has actually had it pretty well so far. It's evolving quite fast, part of the reason why adoption is slow perhaps, but it now has a solid set of f... |
9 May 2013
13:11 GMT |
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WebRTC is progressing steadily; where it was an experimental technology just a year ago, it's now supported by both Firefox and Chrome. In fact, the two browsers can "talk" to each other via WebRTC. But there's still plenty to do, as WebRTC is a complex technology with a lot of layers, and getting everyth... |
8 May 2013
15:01 GMT |
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Do Not Track's fate is still up in the air. While major browsers have already adopted the technology, the problem is in actually getting advertisers to respect Do Not Track settings.
Progress on that front has been slow, mostly due to Microsoft's decision to deviate from the standard and implement the feat... |
7 May 2013
04:50 GMT |
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Mozilla has its work cut out with Firefox OS. The first phones are already selling, even if they're only for developers. But there does seem to be an interest, as the first phones were sold out in hours.
So if you're a developer and you want to give Firefox OS a go, you don't have that many options. ... |
3 May 2013
03:54 GMT |
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Google may be pushing Chrome towards becoming an app platform, but Firefox was the first to support add-ons and it's still probably the most customizable.
In that vein, Mozilla is highlighting this month's featured extensions and the winner of the coveted promotion on the Mozilla Add-ons homepage and in o... |
2 May 2013
04:06 GMT |
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The new Firefox download panel, which has been in the works for years, has been in the stable channel for about a month now. As far as big Firefox changes are concerned, this has gone rather smoothly, though there are plenty of things that still need fixing. Mozilla developer Marco Bonardo wanted to get on top of su... |
1 May 2013
06:31 GMT |
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Mozilla is taking action against a known purveyor of commercial spyware that has been using the Mozilla Firefox trademarks to masquerade its spyware tools. Gamma International, the maker of spyware tools regularly used by governments to spy on their citizens and take down dissidents, has been using the Firefox nam... |
1 May 2013
05:00 GMT |
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Aza Raskin has had a big impact at Mozilla and it seems he can still have even if he hasn't been with the organization for three years. In a recent blog post, he lays out his thoughts on Mozilla's strengths and weaknesses.
He believes Mozilla has never actually been an innovator, and that's a good thi... |
1 May 2013
03:12 GMT |
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Opera isn't winning many friends these days. After deciding to gut the desktop browser along with its own HTML engine, it's now suing a former employee and consultant, Trond Werner Hansen, over allegedly "stealing" trade secrets and sharing them with Mozilla, where he now works. Opera believes the damage ... |
30 April 2013
04:20 GMT |
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Opera has filed a suit against a former employee, accusing him of giving away trade secrets to rival Mozilla.
Opera Software is claiming damages of 20 million Norwegian Krone, which is an estimated $3.4 million (€2.6 million), The Next Web reports.
The name of the accused is Trond Werner Hansen. He worked for... |
29 April 2013
07:32 GMT |
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The bookmarks toolbar button and the star button have merged in the latest Firefox 23 Nightly. Previously, Firefox had a star button in the Awesome Bar, a standard way of adding favorites/creating a new bookmark. But, by default, Firefox also had a bookmarks button with a drop-down menu listing all of the bookmarks ... |
29 April 2013
05:25 GMT |
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Mozilla has just released a new beta version of Firefox for Android devices. This would be the fourth beta since the stable iteration was bumped to 21.0.
Unfortunately, developers have not released any changelog for this update, so we must assume it only brings some minor bug fixes that are not worth mentioning.
Ke... |
26 April 2013
17:31 GMT |
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While each Firefox release brings some new features, if you're looking to be the first, the Aurora releases and especially the Nightly ones are what you need, as long as you can put up with the bugs.
New features land in Firefox Nightly constantly, luckily Mozilla sometimes provides a roundup of the most recent... |
26 April 2013
09:11 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Do Not Track option implemented in Internet Explorer continues to draw criticism around the world against the Redmond-based tech giant, especially because Mozilla too has equipped its browser with a similar option. The difference is that Microsoft wants to keep Do Not Track turned on by default all... |
26 April 2013
03:51 GMT |
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Mozilla has come up with a final proposal to Firefox's customization options as Australis gets closer to reality.
While Mozilla wants Firefox to be as customizable as ever, it also wants to make customization easier and safer.
Mozilla has already come up with several proposals, but this is the final version, ... |
25 April 2013
09:04 GMT |
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Google takes great care to ensure its search results are free of spam or malware and it's not afraid to penalize bad behavior or mistakes even if it means affecting big sites.
Mozilla is the latest victim, though it was only a small portion of the site that was affected.
Initially though, Mozilla's webmas... |
24 April 2013
10:58 GMT |
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Last week, Spanish company Geeksphone announced that the entry-level Keon and Peak smartphones powered by Firefox OS would be available for purchase via its online store.
According to the handset manufacturer, both smartphones will be available for order anywhere in the world for €91 / $119 and €149 / $195... |
22 April 2013
10:31 GMT |
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Mozilla has been working on Australis, a proposed redesign of the Firefox UI, for a lot of time now. While there may have been some progress, it seems that a Firefox Australis is still a long way off since Mozilla isn't done debating what should and shouldn't go into Australis.
While the Australis look has... |
22 April 2013
05:10 GMT |
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GeeksPhone, the first company to launch Firefox-based smartphones, has just announced its Keon and Peak handsets will go on sale next week.
GSMArena reports that the Spanish company has just priced the affordable smartphones at €91 / $119 and €149 / $195, respectively. Keep in mind that these prices do not... |
18 April 2013
17:31 GMT |
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Firefox OS, the mobile platform that Mozilla is currently working on, is getting closer to making an official appearance on shelves, with five countries expected to receive smartphones running under it as soon as June. Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs confirmed to AllThingsD that the company is set to offer devices running ... |
16 April 2013
03:17 GMT |
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Firefox's dev tools have become rather powerful these days, but Mozilla isn't stopping here. In the latest Firefox 22 Aurora, there already are several new dev tools. There's a new font panel, a tool to track browser re-paints, and the option to move the dev tools panel to the side. The Fonts panel, a... |
11 April 2013
13:31 GMT |
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Mozilla is losing its CEO. Gary Kovacs, who has been running the organization for the past two years, is stepping down later this year. Mozilla is already looking for a replacement. Kovacs is the third Mozilla CEO to date.
Kovacs was brought in for his experience in the mobile space, just as Mozilla was facing its b... |
11 April 2013
10:01 GMT |
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Last month, Mozilla's Alex Limi got plenty of attention over the analysis of the options and preferences available in Firefox. He found that many of them aren't relevant to regular users and in fact many may be dangerous as they would break the browser if messed with.
He proposed a critical analysis of eve... |
11 April 2013
07:31 GMT |
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Mozilla released Mozilla Thunderbird 21.0 Beta 1 for Linux, an email and RSS client, featuring numerous bug fixes and improvements.
Mozilla has announced a while ago that the development of Thunderbird will cease in the near future, but, for now, they are adding quite a lot of new stuff.
Highlights of Mozilla Thund... |
11 April 2013
05:16 GMT |
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More and more sites are using encrypted HTTPS connections by default, which is a good thing. But there is a problem, most sites today don't serve content from just one domain, the average web page has several scripts from several domains embedded.
That's a problem if you want to use HTTPS all the time beca... |
10 April 2013
15:41 GMT |
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Mozilla has already prepared a new minor version for Firefox, bringing the build number to 20.0.1. The purpose of this release is to deliver a couple of fixes, one of them for the unresponsive Awesome Bar issue. Multiple users reported that after migrating to Firefox 20, they experienced a non-working address bar an... |
10 April 2013
13:51 GMT |
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As promised, Mozilla is expanding the list of services that work with its Firefox Social API. The Social API debuted with support from Facebook, but Mozilla is now adding three new providers.
"Today, we begin testing new Social API providers Cliqz, msnNOW and Mixi in Firefox Beta. Weibo will be available for testin... |
10 April 2013
05:38 GMT |
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