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Following the release of Firefox 4, Mozilla is moving to a more rapid release development cycle to deliver an overall better web browser to Mac, Windows, and Linux users alike. A new beta version will soon be available with new features, performance enhancements, security updates and stability improvements. Why? Bec... |
17 May 2011
08:15 GMT |
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The next major version of Flash Player, which is currently in beta stage, will leverage APIs already supported in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer to allow clearing Flash Local Shared Objects (LSOs) directly from inside the browsers.LSOs are containers where Flash applications can store various pieces of informa... |
5 May 2011
13:32 GMT |
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Mozilla is transitioning to a new fast release cycle, with a new Firefox version coming out every six weeks. It's been going well so far, but it's still in the early stages and there's plenty that can go wrong and plenty to test. Mozilla is now asking users to help with testing a crucial feature of the... |
5 May 2011
09:20 GMT |
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A new version of Mozilla’s popular web browser has been released in the wild containing important security fixes for avid users of the application, including those surfing the web on a Macintosh computer.
Firefox 4.0.1 fixes security issues found in previous versions of Firefox 4, as well as stability issues... |
29 April 2011
07:34 GMT |
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Firefox is the second most used browser in the world, after Internet Explorer, so when a new version is launched people are going to be interested in what prompted this move from Mozilla and what are the major differences between the latest version, 4.0 and the 3.x series.First impressionsMost likely, there's go... |
7 April 2011
10:05 GMT |
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The team behind the popular desktop browser Firefox has just announced the availability of Firefox 4 for Android. The application made the jump from release candidate to final version in just one week. According to Mozilla, Firefox 4 is up to three times faster than the WebKit stock browser that is delivered with all... |
29 March 2011
13:22 GMT |
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Firefox 3.6.x will continue to be maintained with security and stability updates for a short period of time, according to Mozilla, therefore all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 4, the software vendor said. The 3.5 branch is set to become obsolete even sooner.Soon to be ‘discontinued’ n... |
23 March 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Firefox 4 set the world aglow when it officially launched yesterday. And Mozilla says it is “faster, easier and more awesome than ever”. Considering it is the favorite browser of millions of users making up for more than 20% of the market, placed between Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, it better be. ... |
23 March 2011
13:10 GMT |
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Firefox 4 has reached 'Final' status. Although its authors are yet to make the proper introductions, fans of the open source web browser are downloading the most stable build of Firefox 4 from Mozilla’s FTP servers as you are reading these lines.
Firefox 4 sports, among many enhancements, an adjust... |
21 March 2011
05:28 GMT |
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Ladies and gentlemen, Mozilla has finally made available for download the latest and stable version of the highly anticipated Mozilla Firefox 4.0 web browser for Linux, Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures are supported! Yes! The final version of Firefox 4 is finally here, an... |
21 March 2011
04:24 GMT |
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Mozilla has released Firefox 4.0 RC for all supported platforms, including Mac OS X, bringing the browser inches close to its final release.
According to a post on The Mozilla Blog, “Mozilla Firefox 4 for Windows, Mac and Linux has exited the beta cycle and is now available as a release candidate in more tha... |
10 March 2011
04:53 GMT |
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This weekend Mozilla rolled out the final beta in the Firefox 4.0 development cycle, confirming via its Director of Platform Engineering, Damon Sicore, that a Firefox 4.0 RC (release candidate) is up next.
Released to the public late last week, Firefox 4.0 Beta 12 further addresses the browser’s performance... |
28 February 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Mozilla has rolled out the eleventh beta in the Firefox 4 branch for all supported platforms, including Mac OS X. This beta adds support for the proposed Do Not Track ("DNT") header, and shows connection status messages in a small overlay. In addition, Mozilla says the default homepage design has been refreshed as we... |
8 February 2011
09:45 GMT |
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Nothing spectacular happened in the browser market in January, apart from a big milestone for Chrome and a (negative) record for Internet Explorer. Google's browser broke through the 10 percent mark for the first time, according to Net Applications numbers. Meanwhile, IE saw its lowest market share number since ... |
2 February 2011
06:49 GMT |
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Mozilla has been taking bold steps to release its Firefox browser for Android ever since Google's mobile platform started to gain popularity. Recently, the developer announced the availability of Firefox 4 Beta for Android, which promises significant speed improvements over previous versions.
According to Moz... |
2 February 2011
06:18 GMT |
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Mozilla has released the 10th beta in the Firefox 4.0 development cycle, this time focusing on Mac-specific compatibility and stability. The new release is immediately available for download.
As fans of the popular web browser should well know, Firefox 4 Beta is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform.
Recent beta ... |
26 January 2011
04:38 GMT |
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Mozilla is working to implement a privacy option in Firefox that would allow users to tell websites they don't wish to have their browsing habits tracked for targeting advertising purposes.Back at the beginning of December, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a report entitled "Protecting Consumer Priva... |
24 January 2011
12:23 GMT |
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Mozilla is making the first step towards implementing a global "do no track" feature in Firefox which would enable users to tell websites and advertising networks not to track their behavior or collect any data. Google is also said to be revealing a similar move later today. "As the first of many steps, we are propos... |
24 January 2011
08:47 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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Google Chrome is making most of the waves in the browser market lately, but it seems like Firefox also has something to celebrate in the new year, according to data from StatCounter, it is now the most popular browser across all of Europe, surpassing Internet Explorer in aggregate market share.Firefox has long been o... |
4 January 2011
06:42 GMT |
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Adblock Plus has long time been the most popular Firefox add-ons and for good reason, users have had enough of the ad pollution some sites practice. But if you wanted to use Chrome, you'd be out of luck. There are plenty of ad blockers for the Google browser, but none live up to the Firefox version of Adblock Pl... |
22 December 2010
09:45 GMT |
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While Mozilla still hasn't officially announced the latest beta release of its upcoming Firefox 4, it has been available for download for almost day now. Behind schedule, even the revised one, Firefox 4 Beta 8 comes with quite a lot of bug-fixes, as the focus was on polishing, but also with better Sync support, ... |
22 December 2010
06:13 GMT |
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Mac OS X users worldwide can now download the latest version of Mozilla’s Firefox, an alternative to the built-in Safari web browser.
Firefox 4 Beta 8 is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform and is considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing, though the features and content may change befor... |
21 December 2010
06:38 GMT |
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Security researchers from Norman have come accross a drive-by download attack exploiting an unpatched Firefox vulnerability in order to infect users with a new trojan.The attack was launched from the Nobel Peace Prize website, which appears to have been compromised and had rogue code injected into its pages.According... |
26 October 2010
11:53 GMT |
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Mozilla has just announced a small change that could have a big impact for Firefox extension developers. Specifically, the upcoming Firefox 4 beta will no longer unpack the XPI archive in which extensions are distributed, rather, it will read all of the files from inside the archive. "The next beta of Firefox 4 will... |
24 September 2010
06:51 GMT |
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Mozilla announced recently that it has updated Firefox Home free application for iPhone and iPod touch to version 1.0.2. The new update brings a lot of new goodies, but the main feature seems to be localization for seven more languages.Mozilla's Firefox Home is the free version of the well-known Firefox browser,... |
22 September 2010
10:41 GMT |
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Mozilla has rolled out the sixth Firefox 4 beta which aims to fix an issue causing rendering errors with plugins affecting Mac OS X users, as well as a stability issue affecting Windows PC users.Based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform, “This Firefox 4 Beta is considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web br... |
15 September 2010
04:35 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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The July web browser market share numbers from Net Applications are out and they paint an interesting picture, showing Microsoft Internet Explorer gaining the smallest bit of market share, mostly from Mozilla Firefox but also from Google Chrome. IE only grew by 0.42 percent points last month, but it’s still an ... |
2 August 2010
03:15 GMT |
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Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta 2, a developer preview release of its new generation Firefox web browser being made available for testing purposes only. Firefox beta releases target web developers and Mozilla’s testing community to gain feedback before advancing to the next stage in the release process, alt... |
30 July 2010
09:46 GMT |
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Fresh out of development, Firefox version 3.6.8 is now available for all supported platforms, the browser’s makers have announced. The new release fixes a stability issue affecting some pages containing plugins, and delivers a fix for a critical vulnerability, according to the mozilla.org web site.“Firefo... |
24 July 2010
13:17 GMT |
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With Chrome, Google livened up the web browser wars and really started to make the market actually competitive. Mozilla had already shown the world that it does have a choice with Firefox, but Google showed the world that there’s an alternative to Firefox as well. Since then, both browsers have gone from streng... |
13 July 2010
06:22 GMT |
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Firefox 4 Beta has been released with much fanfare for Mac, Windows, and Linux, although the biggest improvements are yet to arrive for users of Apple’s computers. The new release includes an updated Windows interface “that's sleeker and easier to use,” Mozilla announced. A new Add-ons manager,... |
7 July 2010
08:21 GMT |
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No more nightly builds to get a taste of the redesigned Firefox UI because the first beta for Firefox 4 has been released. The new look and feel mentioned in our previous article have been wrapped in a safe version of the browser, which is ready to be taken for a spin. In this still early stage of development, snags ... |
7 July 2010
04:04 GMT |
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With the Firefox 4.0 beta coming very soon, a lot more people are going to get a glimpse at what Mozilla has in mind for the upcoming Firefox. The interface will be getting a thorough redesign and the changes will be significant for long-time Firefox users. One issue that has been much argued is the position of the t... |
25 June 2010
05:33 GMT |
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The long-awaited Firefox 3.6.4 has finally landed. Normally, there’s not much to get exited about this type of minor releases, they focus on fixing stability and security fixes. This time around, Mozilla broke from tradition and added a new feature in a ‘point’ release and it’s quite a big one... |
23 June 2010
04:43 GMT |
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Now that the 2010 FIFA World Cup is just one day away, football fans from the world over are getting ready to celebrate and are supporting their teams however they can. Anyone can sport a team's official T-shirt, but now fans can show their allegiance in their browser as well. Mozilla is introducing 32 new Per... |
10 June 2010
08:51 GMT |
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With the open source nature of Mozilla Firefox, it was bound to happen sooner or later, a developer has started work on a fork of the popular web browser, which will include support for the H.264 codec. Dubbed Wild Fox, the project is in the very early stages and is aimed at the many countries where software patents ... |
17 May 2010
06:09 GMT |
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Firefox 4 is finally beginning to take shape after quite a few months in development, in one form or another. The first major release since Firefox 3.5, it will be a significant update, but won’t be coming any sooner than November 2010. There are plenty of new things planned or in development for Firefox 4, but... |
11 May 2010
06:00 GMT |
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With the web becoming such a big part of everyone’s life, the web browser is probably the most important piece of software in any computer or device. But, with great power comes great responsibility, browsers are constantly a target for nefarious individuals up to no good. Add to this the ‘unpredictabilit... |
24 April 2010
08:49 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced that it is planning to finally fix a privacy issue known as browsing history leaking, which has been around since at least 2002. The changes will limit the styling options for visited links and prevent JavaScript from obtaining the computed style of a link.CSS history sniffing is a type of attac... |
1 April 2010
10:52 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced the release of Firefox 3.6.2, the latest stable version of its popular web browser for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. On the Mac side, Firefox 3.6.2 fixes a bunch of issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6, all of which are detailed below. As usual, Mac users are encouraged to download an... |
24 March 2010
05:19 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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Mozilla has issued an update for users of Firefox 3.0, the branch soon to be discontinued. Addressing vulnerabilities that have been already patched in Firefox 3.6, the new release includes all the changes delivered in Firefox 3.0.17 and is available for immediate download right here on Softpedia.
The official rel... |
18 February 2010
04:24 GMT |
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Mozilla has released a new version of its popular, cross-platform web browser, Mozilla Firefox. The fourth beta of Firefox 3.6 for Mac OS X includes changes to how the developer allows third party software to integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes, and more. Read on for the full scoop.“This is a bet... |
26 November 2009
06:44 GMT |
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The browser market is continuing the trend set in recent months with all major browsers moving in the same direction as before. Internet Explorer saw another big loss, dropping to about a 65-percent market share, Firefox got a very small bump and Google Chrome saw a decent amount of growth considering its size, going... |
3 November 2009
06:36 GMT |
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Firefox's automatic disabling of an extension and plug-in developed by Microsoft has led to a heated debate regarding the ethical aspects of the decision. ClickOnce-dependent users cried foul as they could not add a manual exception and Mozilla promised to provide a more granular blocklist override mechanism.Las... |
19 October 2009
06:27 GMT |
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Microsoft's recent Patch Tuesday addressed a remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) hosting process. Mozilla acted to protect its users by adding the Windows Presentation Foundation plug-in for Firefox to its blocklist, along with the .NET Framework Assistant exte... |
17 October 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Mozilla has analyzed the traffic on its new page that instructs Firefox users to upgrade their Adobe Flash Player plug-in and announced that around half of them were running an insecure version. It was also revealed that an estimated 30% of those users chose to hit the update link. On September 4, a few days before ... |
17 September 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Three SSL implementation vulnerabilities, some of which were publicly disclosed during the Black Hat security conference, have been addressed in the new Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 and 3.0.13 versions. Patches for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, which are also vulnerable, will be released at a later date. The Black Hat Briefin... |
4 August 2009
05:00 GMT |
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