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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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Yesterday Microsoft released new security patches for Internet Explorer, trying to patch vulnerabilities that would expose users’ data in case of successful attacks.
Deploying these patches is pretty important even if you’re using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, Marc Maiffret, chief technology officer ... |
16 May 2013
14:11 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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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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As Firefox 21 launch is coming closer, there are some new things you can expect from this browser version. According to the release notes, there are three new features that will be added to the list of awesome things Firefox can do. First and foremost is the “Do Not Track” feature that gets three new ... |
14 May 2013
10:47 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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The race between the world’s most popular browsers continues, this time with a study conducted by security research firm NSS Labs.
The company tested five of the top browsers on the market for a total of 28 days to determine which one blocks the largest amount of malware.
Internet Explorer 10, Google Chrome ... |
14 May 2013
01:12 GMT |
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Mozilla silently updated its beta version of Firefox for Android devices. As usual, the company did not offer any details on the changes included in this update.However, we can assume it only brings some bug fixes and probably a few tweaks and improvements. Although Firefox beta is a work in progress, it would be ni... |
3 May 2013
03:55 GMT |
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Internet Explorer has once again managed to snatch the first position in the browser world, this time thanks to version 8.0 and its market share of 23.08 percent.
According to April 2013 statistics provided by market researcher Net Applications, Internet Explorer 9.0 was the second most popular browser last month wi... |
1 May 2013
00:53 GMT |
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Even though Microsoft claims that Internet Explorer is currently the number one browser in the entire world, StatCounter data prove otherwise.
According to statistics for this month, Chrome is currently the number one browser in the world with a market share of 39.11 percent, followed by Microsoft’s Internet E... |
30 April 2013
07:23 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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The next major release of Mozilla’s popular web browser, Firefox 22.0 will bring at least one noteworthy enhancement for Mac users. The new feature is currently available in a highly-unstable Alpha build, but will soon make its way into Mozilla Firefox 22 Final.
The nifty feature is a “download progress&... |
9 April 2013
11:10 GMT |
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Mozilla released version 21 for Firefox beta recently, which introduces features that are a stepping stone for improving the browser, especially in terms of performance.
The fresh revision will offer suggestions for better startup times, when it detects that the browser launches slower than it should. This consists ... |
5 April 2013
04:09 GMT |
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Mozilla this week rolled out Firefox 20.0, a major new version of the company’s popular web browser for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux computers alike.
Firefox 20 packs the usual security fixes, as well as a few enhancements. One of them is “per-window Private Browsing,” which lets you browse the web... |
3 April 2013
05:49 GMT |
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Mozilla launched the stable build for Firefox 20 for all desktop platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux).
Although many users expected to see the same release notes as in the case of the beta, the developer held back on one of the features, and that is informing the user that the search provider in the Awesome bar has be... |
2 April 2013
11:14 GMT |
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Firefox has already uploaded Firefox 20 to their servers, although the official release is yet to come; it will arrive later today. The new release brings to the table important modifications that improve the file download experience and per-window private browsing. Firefox 20 includes the new panel-based download m... |
2 April 2013
02:28 GMT |
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As expected, a few hours ago (April 2), Mozilla uploaded the final packages of the Mozilla Firefox 20.0 web browser for all supported platforms, including Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X.
However, Firefox 20.0 has not been officially announced by Mozilla, yet, but you can download the final vers... |
2 April 2013
02:27 GMT |
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Firefox Metro (the “modern UI” part of the browser for Windows 8) has received little attention in the news lately, but Mozilla is hard at work with it. Today (no joke, I promise), the fifth stage of development has started – and it should last until on April 12.
The current development of Firefox ... |
1 April 2013
10:46 GMT |
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The browser market is currently dominated by three different browsers, namely Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, all of which receive new updates every once in a while.
As far as each company is concerned, their very own product is the best, the fastest and the most stable app on the market, even ... |
1 April 2013
10:26 GMT |
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Internet Explorer is clearly the number one browser in the world, but it’s not the 10th version the one that’s topping the rankings. A new set of statistics provided by Net Applications for March 2013 shows that Internet Explorer 8.0 managed to protect its leading spot last month, so it reached a market ... |
1 April 2013
02:20 GMT |
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Microsoft is now celebrating the first anniversary of The Browser You Loved to Hate campaign but, in the meantime, Internet Explorer has serious problems in the fight against Google Chrome for the supremacy of this particular industry sector.
Statistics provided by StatCounter for this week, for example, reveal that... |
21 March 2013
03:45 GMT |
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Mozilla head Jay Sullivan kicked off a brief discussion about Apple at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas last week, noting that Firefox iOS may never come to fruition. The reason is Apple’s non-flexible policies regarding third-party browsers.
After pulling its own Firefox Home app from iTunes, Mozilla now ... |
11 March 2013
05:04 GMT |
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Back in the day, Mozilla Firefox was the only contender to Internet Explorer, by bringing to the table, among others, features such as tabbed browsing and a cool download manager that kept all tasks organized in a single window. Its release spurred the interest of computer techies and enthusiasts but, despite this s... |
9 March 2013
08:31 GMT |
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While all eyes are on the new Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 continues to be the number one browser in the world, according to new statistics for the month of February.
Net Applications figures reveal that IE 8.0 had a market share of 23.38 percent last month, followed closely by Internet Ex... |
1 March 2013
01:08 GMT |
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Today, Mozilla rolled out an update for Firefox. The new minor revision is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux), but it addresses only one issue that occurred on Windows 8 only.
It addresses only one issue that occurred on machines equipped with certain AMD graphics cards.
According to the... |
28 February 2013
04:21 GMT |
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SolusOS, a modern operating system based on the popular Linux distribution, Debian, which works out of the box, with great support for all modern day computing needs, is now at version 1.3.
According to the developers, this is probably the last version release for this branch and their development efforts are focus... |
23 February 2013
07:31 GMT |
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The new Firefox brings to the table a huge list of fixes, but there are still some problems that could bother some users; and the developer is well aware of them and trying to work them out.
First on the list is a crash that occurs when the web browser is started using a locked profile; luckily, not too many users g... |
20 February 2013
04:52 GMT |
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Mozilla has uploaded the installer for the stable version of Firefox 19 on their servers, for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux).
The big news for Firefox 19 is the introduction of a more secure PDF viewer (based on JavaScript and HTML5) that started from a research project called PDF.js.
This is desi... |
19 February 2013
03:17 GMT |
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Mozilla has recently announced that Firefox for Windows 8 with a Metro user interface had been published on mozilla-central, the company’s source code repository that provides access to Nightly builds.
The first Metro build of Mozilla Firefox was released in October, but the developers behind the project had s... |
13 February 2013
09:24 GMT |
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The current build for Firefox browser popped up on Mozilla’s servers yesterday, but at the time we announced that there were no official notes available, only speculations and rumors about the release.
Now we know that the cause for launching a second update for Firefox 18 was a bug that accounted for 20% the ... |
6 February 2013
04:06 GMT |
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Mozilla has officially announced that the second maintenance release in the Firefox 18.x branch is now available for download. The new Firefox 18.0.2 for Linux comes with some pretty interesting features and new updates, especially related to performance and stability. Highlights of Firefox 18.0.2: • JavaScri... |
6 February 2013
02:37 GMT |
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Mozilla posted the new version for Firefox on their servers, but there are no release notes available at the moment. You can download it for Windows, Mac or Linux from Softpedia as well. Nothing official has been released yet, but word on the web says that the cause for rolling out Firefox 18.0.2 is a bug that accou... |
5 February 2013
04:16 GMT |
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Just a week after the previous stable release, the Mozilla Foundation has launched version 18.0.1 of their popular internet browser.Judging by the changes, this is nothing more than a maintenance release for Mozilla Firefox which brings some much needed changes and updates.Highlights of Firefox 18.0.1:• Problems... |
19 January 2013
13:37 GMT |
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Today Mozilla plans to launch a minor update for Firefox browser and increase the build number to 18.0.1. It is a maintenance release and it should come out by the end of the day. The new revision addresses a set of ten bugs, most of them being platform-specific. A startup crash has been eliminated on Windows and th... |
18 January 2013
09:19 GMT |
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Some users are experiencing trouble with the order of the bookmarks under Firefox 18, after running the synchronization job from Firefox for Android.
It appears that users with a larger number of bookmarks (thousands) are more prone to be affected by the issue. However, those with fewer bookmarks (100 and less) to s... |
17 January 2013
03:49 GMT |
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Mozilla increased the build number for Firefox Aurora to version 20. The novelty in this release is the availability of a refreshed private browsing feature, which has been completely re-written in order to make the experience more comfortable.The new method eliminates giving up the regular browsing session in favor ... |
12 January 2013
02:52 GMT |
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The official Windows RT jailbreak application is now available for download, so software developers behind this project can focus on recompiling applications to run on Microsoft’s tablet-oriented operating system.
The number of desktop apps available on jailbroken Windows RT devices is pretty small right now, ... |
11 January 2013
16:41 GMT |
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Mozilla launched the first beta for Firefox 19. The new build adds two new important features as well as increased HTML5 support.
At the top of the list is the introduction of a native PDF viewer, which had been in the works for some time and skipped a couple of versions. By making it available, the need for third-p... |
11 January 2013
05:18 GMT |
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On January 8, Canonical published details about Firefox vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems, providing a much needed update to version 18.0.
According to Canonical, multiple security issues were fixed in Mozilla Firefox. For example, an attacke... |
9 January 2013
11:19 GMT |
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Months after Opera and Google Chrome updated their browsers to support the HiDPI screens on Apple’s new MacBook Pros, Mozilla has released its own Retina update for fans of the Firefox web browser on OS X.
Arguably the most popular web browser on any desktop platform, Firefox is strangely the last of the big b... |
9 January 2013
07:29 GMT |
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The stable version for Firefox 18 has been officially released for all supported desktop platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux). It promises to deliver significant JavaScript improvements through changing the JIT compiler monkeys, IonMonkey replaces JagerMonkey. Further performance improvements touch on tab switching an... |
8 January 2013
10:49 GMT |
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The fresh build is not officially released at the moment but it is already present on Mozilla’s FTP as well as on Softpedia. The official release notes are also available.
The most significant modification in Firefox 18 is the integration of a new JavaScript engine, dubbed IonMonkey. It replaces JagerMonkey JI... |
8 January 2013
03:06 GMT |
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Data provided by Net Applications for 2012 confirm that Internet Explorer is the most popular browser in the world, with Microsoft’s in-house app accounting for 54.77 percent of the market at the end of December.
Internet Explorer has remained the number one choice for computer users throughout the whole year,... |
5 January 2013
05:21 GMT |
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We’ve already told you that Microsoft has launched a new Penguin Mark benchmark to determine the fastest browser on the market, but it seems like IE10 gains the highest score every time, regardless of the hardware configuration and Internet connection.
We’ve performed the test on both Windows 7 and Windo... |
27 December 2012
09:27 GMT |
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Microsoft’s in-house browser, Internet Explorer, was still the number one choice for computer users in November, according to new data released by Net Applications.
Surprisingly, however, Internet Explorer version 8.0 snatched the leading spot with a market share of 24.49 percent, followed by Internet Explorer... |
2 December 2012
03:13 GMT |
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We’ve already grown accustomed to minor (x.0.1) Firefox versions emerging after the release of the major stable build of Firefox. Version 17 is no different as Mozilla plans to release Firefox 17.0.1 (for ESR edition as well) today, unthrottled. This means that, starting today, we should expect the browser to ... |
30 November 2012
07:26 GMT |
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Mac owners waiting anxiously for Mozilla to beef up Firefox with Retina compatibility can breathe a sigh of relief because the latest beta adds just that – Retina display support.
Firefox 18, currently in beta, includes JavaScript improvements that make Web apps and games perform better. The browser further includes... |
27 November 2012
04:56 GMT |
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News about 64-bit Firefox for Windows getting the axe from Benjamin Smedberg, head of engineering team, has been making the online rounds for the past days. The reason is simple: the resources allotted to sustaining this build are higher than the benefits.
Despite this “shocking” information, this does n... |
23 November 2012
07:15 GMT |
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