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| Mozilla: Firefox Is Superior to IE, Opera and Safari |  | As far as Mozilla is concerned, the open source Firefox browser is superior to what rivals from Microsoft, Apple and Opera have to offer. Security is one of the aspects of software which can be quantified only by considering a variety of factors from the volume of attacks and the malware environment, to the number and severity of exploits, and to the exposure window of end users. According to ... [read more >>] | | 08 July 2008, 12:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mac-Switchers Confused by Installation Prompts |  | Ever thought installing a simple program (such as Mozilla Firefox) on the Mac can be more confusing than it is on Windows? Neither did I, but that's because we don't see it the way a Windows user does, especially if it's the first time they're installing a piece of software on the Apple machine.
Those who've mostly used Windows, at home and at work, have adapted to the way Windows programs are installed, namely ... [read more >>] | | 26 June 2008, 09:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox 3 Vulnerabilities Could Affect Over 14 Million Computers |  | Since the new release of popular web browser Mozilla Firefox 3.0, over 14 million downloads have been registered by the counter posted on the Spread Firefox website. But just in a few hours (about five) after the Mozilla Firefox 3.0 was made available to the public, security flaws have been reported.
TippingPoint, a provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems, was informed about existing security issues in Mozil ... [read more >>] | | 20 June 2008, 12:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox 3 Plug-in for Mac Adds In-Browser PDF Viewer |  | Everyone can agree on that Firefox 3 is off the charts, as far as coolness goes. There's even a new addition for Mac, a plug-in, which allows PDF-viewing right from within the browser. You can also save the PDF, if you wish, but the ability to view it in the web browser saves pr ... [read more >>] | | 19 June 2008, 04:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| First Look at Firefox 3.0 for Linux |  | If you were waiting for Firefox 3.0, be glad, as the wait is now over! The final release is available for download, and you probably want to help Mozilla set that world record, so start downloading!
Before doing this, you will have to pledge that you will download Firefox today. This way, Mozilla will keep track of all ... [read more >>] | | 17 June 2008, 10:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mozilla Firefox 3 Released for Mac |  | Although Mozilla says it's "not quite ready yet", the final version of your favorite web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3 is here! Our eagle-eyed folks nabbed it the instant it was available. So, let the download party for the Guinness world record begin!
"We're just as excited ... [read more >>] | | 17 June 2008, 04:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox About:Blank Vulnerability Could Expose You to Hackers |  | Firefox is incredibly popular nowadays, some people saying that it's even more popular than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the default browser integrated into the Windows operating system. However, being extremely popular doesn't necessarily mean that you're also 100 percent safe as it has been proved by numerous security glitches spotted in Mozilla's browser. And today, a new but minor glitch has been de ... [read more >>] | | 28 May 2008, 04:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What Freezes the System: Firefox or ext3? |  | A few days ago, the first Release Candidate for Firefox 3 was launched but some problems still remained unfixed, like the one that caused the browser (and sometimes the entire system) to freeze. Some persons blamed Firefox for the freeze, while others the ext3 filesystem and [ADMAR ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 06:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| ZoneAlarm Developer Debuts XP/Vista Browser Protection |  | Because being safe while browsing the Internet is vital for all of us, security companies around the world bring out more and more applications supposed to help us. Check Point Software, the developer of the famous ZoneAlarm suite, rolled out a few days ago ZoneAlarm ForceField, a new "virtualized browser security solution" which could provide better security than any other application on the web. First of all, the deve ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 06:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mozilla Launches Thunderbird 3, Download Inside |  | Mozilla has just launched Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 1, the first 3.0 release of the email client that is said to come with lots of new features and updates. Thunderbird has always been one of the most popular email clients on the market and, just like its famous brother Firefox, it now reaches the 3.0 version. As I'm sure you know, Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 was released a few weeks ago so you can download it from ... [read more >>] | | 16 May 2008, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox Really Proud of Its "Awesome" Address Bar |  | Along with the latest beta of Firefox 3, Mozilla has introduced a brand new address bar that represents more than a simple browser function because it is able to provide many other features besides allowing you to enter an URL and load the website. First of all, the address bar provides as-you-type suggestions depending on your browsing history. Moreover, Firefox analyzes the websites you visit more often and places them higher in the list ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2008, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Opera Launches Dragonfly - Firefox Firebug Rival |  | Opera, a pretty popular web-browser which has often been described as the second alternative for Internet Explorer, after Mozilla Firefox, has brought a new function which helps the application target developers. Until now, Opera was quite weak when it came to developer tools and users turned to other solutions such as the Firefox Firebug which is regarded as one of the most efficient utilities on the web. However, using the newl ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2008, 04:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Virus Found in Firefox 2 Plug-in |  | The language pack supposed to be installed in Firefox 2 by consumers who want to use the Mozilla browser in Vietnamese got compromised by a Trojan horse, Window Snyder, the Mozilla security chief warned yesterday. What's worse is that the plugin was posted straight on the Mozilla Add-on page from where users download and install themes and extensions for Firefox. Window Snyder explained that the Trojan horse was a result of ... [read more >>] | | 08 May 2008, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| XP SP3 RTM Is Slaughtering Firefox with IE6 |  | The pseudo-release of Windows XP Service Pack 3, because Microsoft's game of now you see it, now you don't, cannot be called otherwise, has managed to produce some rather interesting side-effects. In this context, one of the collatera ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Facebook's Recommended Browsers: Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox |  | Phishing scams and Facebook are two of the most popular web-related things these days although they have pretty different meanings and purposes. Phishing scams are extremely dangerous attacks, usually launched via email addresses, which attempt to steal users' private information through a fake website which looks similar to a legitimate one. On the other hand, Facebook is one of the most known services on the web, being a s ... [read more >>] | | 24 April 2008, 03:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 Not as Secure as You May Expect |  | Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 quickly caught the attention of the Internet users and, even if it's currently just in beta stages, it is also installed on millions of computers around the world. However, its continuously growing vulnerability doesn't necessarily mean that it's 100 percent secure, a fact also underlined by the beta tag placed near its name. SecurityFocus today reported that a 'document.write()' ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 05:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 15 Years Separate Mosaic and Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 |  | On March 5 2008, at the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft permitted the first public tasting of Internet Explorer 8. Designed as the successor of Internet Explorer 7, IE8 debuted into beta at the end of the past month with a build aimed at web content developers and designers. Microsoft is currently building the second beta of IE8, and making headway towards the final version of the browser. According to the Redmond compa ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Unsafe Browsers to Be Banned By PayPal, Safari Among the Favorites |  | Browser vulnerabilities are among the main causes of web attacks because they allow hackers and malicious people to take over the control over a certain computer or just insert a dangerous code to harm the data stored on the system. Because of that, the PayPal may take the decision to ban browsers dubbed as unsafe and restrict their access on the website.
Honestly, this would be a great security measure because consumers using ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 06:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox + Firebug Incompatible with the New Yahoo Mail |  | Several reports regarding an incompatibility between the Firefox browser plus the Firebug plugin and the new Yahoo Mail are apparently true as the Yahoo employees are now advising people to update Firebug to the latest version. In case the term Firebug doesn't ring any bells to you, the application is a Firefox plugin that lets you "edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page," as it is ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 03:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A Free File Manager Directly into Your Web Browser |  | Files can be easily organized by using a file manager integrated as default into your own operating system, or by installing an appropriate software that will help you to perform various actions on your files, such as browsing, editing and more. When you are dealing with HTML pages or PHP code for example, is useful to have a file manager (browser) integrated into your web browser.
Firefly is an add-on that once installed wi ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 10:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Features in the All-New Yahoo! Mail |  | The Yahoo! Mail Blog, offering peaks into what the team is working on and giving out advice on resolving issues, has given us a heads-up (or better said has pulled our sleeve) on the new features introduced. Judging by the amount of feedback they’ve received and from what people have been telling me related to them, they are big with a capital b.
First off, there’s the Download All Attachments option, that ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Worldwide: Firefox vs. Internet Explorer |  | Even though the browser market is a multifaceted arena, the fact of the matter is that there are but two dominant players. Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox have pretty much split the vast majority of browser users between them, with IE grabbing the lion's share and Firefox a distant runner-up. Still, the general tendency of the market is favorable not to the leader, but to the underdog. Internet Explorer i ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 12:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Is Internet Explorer Safer Than Firefox, Opera and Safari? |  | The face-off for dominance on the browser market is essentially a four-horse race between Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Now, the truth of the matter is that Internet Explorer has long become the preferred browser worldwide, starting with the moment it was bundled with Windows and offered for free in order to beat Netscape at its own game. Firefox comes in second in terms of install base, enjoying the backing of Google, with ... [read more >>] | | 03 March 2008, 13:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Netscape Offline |  | Old school Internet users cannot but sigh when reminiscing about the good times they had using the now-AOL-owned Netscape. As of the first of March, the legendary Netscape Navigator browser is no longer receiving any kind of support, and its faithful users have been once again asked to consider Firefox and Flock for their online browsing future.
Once the proud choice of over 90 percent of surfers, Navigator saw its market share slip dra ... [read more >>] | | 03 March 2008, 09:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mozilla Messaging, Out and About |  | The Mozilla Foundation announced yesterday that it opened Mozilla Messaging to develop its free, open source Thunderbird email software. Thunderbird was put on hold back in autumn, but now they’re taking it on again and the foundation sees a bright future ahead of it.
David Ascher, Mozilla Messaging’s CEO, started with the premise that "email is broken": "Email and other forms of internet communications present ... [read more >>] | | 20 February 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox Users Less Likely to Fall for Porn Scams |  | A while ago there was a supposedly "viral" advertising campaign against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer series, created by Mozilla, that claimed to have better and more tech savvy users for its Firefox browser than the competition. Dissed at the time for the way it was presented, there is still some truth to that, as DriveSentry’s John Safa came to acknowledge.
He told Web User that people using Firefox are "more aware of a ... [read more >>] | | 01 February 2008, 19:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox: 600 Million Add-on Downloads - and Internet Explorer? |  | At the end of 2007, the now Mozilla Chief Executive Officer, John Lilly, estimated the install base of Firefox at approximately 125 million users. At that time, Lilly revealed that with Firefox 2.0, launched at the same time as Internet Explorer 7, the open source browser had virtually doubled its market share. And the fact of the matter is that throughout 2007, IE7 has struggled to go past IE6, and barely succeeded doing so at the end of ... [read more >>] | | 31 January 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox Is Slaughtering Internet Explorer |  | Stuck at a negligible share of the browser market, Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European Union Antitrust Commission pointing to the bundling of Internet Explorer into Windows, as the reason for what it referred to as a lack of consumer choice. But Firefox seems to have no problems growing from under Internet Explorer and, furthermore, dislodging large chunks of IE's audience and converting them to open source. In Europe ... [read more >>] | | 30 January 2008, 13:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox Rises Big Time in Europe |  | The browser war is somewhat the opposite to the search engines war: it too features a favorite and an underdog, but unlike Google and Yahoo, the startup switch has not yet been made. It’s where things are headed, definitely, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is slowly backing up from the ever rising Firefox that Mozilla brought on stage.
Europe is the place where the spikes at IE’s feet start growing sharper, the Old Continent is ... [read more >>] | | 29 January 2008, 06:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A Better Docs Experience Altogether |  | With the growing popularity of Google Docs, the dev team needs to make haste with their efforts to attract and, more important, maybe, keep the visitors and turn them into users. The "all on the Internet" is enough only for the first part mentioned above, so they’ve got a lot of work laid ahead of them.
Partnering with Firefox to make the search engine the default homepage of the browser turned out to be one of the g ... [read more >>] | | 28 January 2008, 07:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mozilla’s Getting “Humanized” Interfaces |  | The Open Source giant Mozilla, proud owner of Firefox and Thunderbird, to name just a couple of Internet hits, has hired on Wednesday the president of Humanized, a startup from Chicago for his experience with UI interfaces. The name of the newly employed should ring a bell: Aza Raskin is the son of the Apple interface designer Jef Raskin.
The move to Mozilla must have had young Aza scared, so he brought along some familiar fa ... [read more >>] | | 18 January 2008, 20:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox and Internet Explorer Browser Smackdown |  | The face-off between the most prominent browsers on the market is not only a question of audience and uptake, but also one of security. As browsers are often a preferred attack vector, developers aim to bulletproof the product as much as possible. As far as the browser market is concerned, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera pretty much dive the users, with IE having the dominant position, as a result of the Windows-near monopoly, ... [read more >>] | | 18 January 2008, 12:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Linux, Firefox, TV Recording and Possibly ISO Loader on the PS3 |  | The PS3 is once again put to the test by homebrewers, who have come up with the PS3 Megabox Homebrew project, which practically implements every improvement that Sony could ever dream of, with their firmware updates. Keep in mind that this neat package ... [read more >>] | | 18 January 2008, 09:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Old Switcheroo With Gmail |  | The Gmail Manager Firefox extension is a time saver for everybody and in case you aren’t using it already you’d better start right away. Besides letting you know when you’ve received a new Gmail message it also lets you switch between Gmail accounts without having to sign out and then log in again. With the time it takes Gmail to load all the messages on lower-end machines, that’s no feat to be taken lightly.
You would still have to add ... [read more >>] | | 15 January 2008, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Get Your Firefox Discounts Here! |  | There are many who have tried to take advantage of a particular well known brand in order to advertise their company’s services or products, but that usually ended with a trial and a lot of penalties. At least in the past 20 or so years that’s the way it went.
The new model of advertising that an Australian online computer shop is trying to implement on the market is that of discounts based on the browser used when ordering so ... [read more >>] | | 09 January 2008, 04:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mozilla Promoting Firefox, Thrashing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer |  | The campaign that Mozilla launched yesterday is "Fight Against Boredom" and it’s supposed to be viral, complete with a site (fighatagainstboredom.org), a fake talk show setup, links to a Facebook page, downloads for the song and, of course, links to download Firefox.
Microsoft will most likely not like the statistics (which, in my honest opinion, are also fake) that are running at the bottom of the YouTube video that ... [read more >>] | | 08 January 2008, 18:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Deploying Internet Explorer 7 |  | Internet Explorer 7 is currently the most used browser worldwide, according to statistics made available by Net Applications. Released over a year ago for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003, the browser has grown as of December 2007 to a market share of 40.61%. With the end of 2007 al ... [read more >>] | | 07 January 2008, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox under Attack, No Solution Available yet! |  | We all know it, Firefox is one of the most popular web browsers ever designed. Moreover, some people say the Mozilla browser is the most secure application in its category, having safer features that Internet Explorer, the program built by the Redmond software giant, Microsoft. However, a new vulnerability has been discovered in Mozilla Firefox and, at the time of writing this article, no official solution has been released. Secu ... [read more >>] | | 04 January 2008, 05:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Top Security Software of 2007 |  | 2007 has been a busy year when it comes to computer security, with all kinds of threats aiming to be deployed on people's computers. Trojan horses, malware, viruses, spam and hack attacks, they have all joined their forces to break into our systems. Because of that, security companies from all over the world struggled to build new solutions or to update the existing ones, just to prove the consumers that, somewhere beyond these attack ... [read more >>] | | 29 December 2007, 07:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Explorer 7 a Disappointment as Big as Windows Vista? |  | Is Internet Explorer 7 matching Windows Vista in the level of disappointment delivered to end users? Well, such an answer lies ultimately within you. But at the same time, IE7 has not been submitted to the same barrage of fire that Vista had to face throughout 2007. Still, users are failing to take a shine to the latest version of Microsoft’s proprietary browser, and this scenario is a clear indication that Microsoft is not quite there wit ... [read more >>] | | 28 December 2007, 11:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox 3 and the Story of the Perfect Security |  | Browsing the web without a security solution is something like hunting wolves without a gun, and I'm not just saying it, because you all know that the Internet is full of infected websites and dangerous files, which could easily harm your computer in a matter of minutes. That's why security tools are always welcomed and every time a new company releases such a utility, all the users hurry up to download and install it. ... [read more >>] | | 11 December 2007, 10:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Baidu Catches Fox. Firefox |  | Baidu is surprisingly the leading search engine in China, instead of Google, who is still falling in and out of love with the Chinese Government because it is not allowed to display any search results that might be offensive to the Party. And there’s more to that story, but this is not the main issue at hand.
Gemme, of searchenginejournal.com, noted this morning that "Baidu has signed a deal with the affiliate of Mozilla ... [read more >>] | | 07 December 2007, 08:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Firefox Over the 125 Million Users Milestone – Doubles in a Single Year |  | While Microsoft published the latest data on the adoption of Internet Explorer 7, claiming an excess of 300 million users worldwide, Mozilla has some numbers of its own about Firefox. Mozilla COO, John Lilly, made public the statistics on the open source browser, claiming a market share of over 125 million users. Lilly stressed the fact that the 125 million users was only an approximation, but still indicated that Firefox has doubled its m ... [read more >>] | | 03 December 2007, 11:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft Claims Firefox is Nothing Compared to Internet Explorer |  | Microsoft claims that Firefox is nothing compared to Internet Explorer. The Redmond company's proprietary browser, as well as Mozilla's open source competitor, are in a constant race for audience. In the browser world, the success of a product is measured ultimately in terms of market share. And in this respect, Internet Explorer, having benefited from the Windows near-monopoly, accounts for the lion's share of the ... [read more >>] | | 03 December 2007, 07:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Version of Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2 Available for Download |  | Is Microsoft starting to sweat with Mozilla's Firefox breathing down its neck? It sure looks like it. At the beginning of October, the Redmond company stripped the browser from the Windows genuine Advantage mechanism. At one year following the browser's release for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003, XP users no longer have to go through the pains of two separate WGA validations in order to access, download and install IE7. B ... [read more >>] | | 30 November 2007, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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