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For many Mozilla equals Firefox, but the organization is working on a lot more. One of the most ambitious projects is Boot 2 Gecko, which is still in the early stages, an operating system based on the Gecko rendering and layout engine used by Firefox, Thunderbird and all Mozilla-related projects. Saying that making ... |
5 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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The latest beta build of Firefox (b2) has been floating on the Internet for about a week now, having been spotted on Mozilla’s servers around December 29. However, since release, Mozilla has received over 11,000 crash reports for Firefox 10 B2, peaking at over 5K in 24 hours. The development team has not yet f... |
4 January 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced that it has released a new version of its Mozilla Public License, the license under which Firefox, Thunderbird and most other Mozilla software and source code is distributed.
The MPL 2.0 is the first update to the license in more than a decade. Its scope was to make the text of the license shor... |
4 January 2012
09:21 GMT |
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2011 year was an interesting year in the browser market, albeit a rather predictable one. Internet Explorer lost a bit of market share each month, Google Chrome gained a bit to almost double its share from the start of 2011 and Firefox stagnated.
That's according to Net Applications data, others show a better d... |
3 January 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Mozilla is moving forth with the development of a new flavor of its Firefox for Android mobile browser, one that will sport a native UI when released. Currently available only in the nightly channel, the so called “Native” Firefox for Android is set to move to the Aurora channel soon, and Mozilla is gett... |
3 January 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Mozilla and Google have an interesting relationship. On the one hand, Mozilla depends on Google money to survive. On the other, Google is working on Chrome, a Firefox competitor that now has roughly the same market share as the open-source browser.This apparent competition spurred suggestions that Google would stop f... |
28 December 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Firefox 10 introduced several new tools for developers, the web inspector is especially slick, but Firefox 11, which is now available in the Aurora channel follows through with even more goodies for developers.
On the footsteps of the web inspector, comes the new Style editor which enables developers to write and te... |
27 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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The Firefox 10 Beta brings a decent set of new features for end users, but it's also bringing a lot of new features aimed at developers, from new capabilities to dedicated tools. The star of the show has to be the new web inspector tool. It enables developers to quickly analyze a web page with the visual tool. ... |
27 December 2011
14:01 GMT |
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With Firefox 9 made available to all just before Christmas, the other Mozilla Firefox channels also welcomed new versions. Firefox 11 landed in the Aurora channel, the most experimental versions aimed at regular users.
It comes with several new features and more may be added or completed during this development phas... |
27 December 2011
07:11 GMT |
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As 2011 comes to an end, Mozilla is drawing a line and summing up the year. And, unlike many other companies, Mozilla did have quite an exciting year, arguably its best yet.Firefox 4, which had been in the works for more than a year, was released, marking the start of a new age for the popular browser.It was one of t... |
24 December 2011
03:21 GMT |
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The Google Mozilla search deal saga is finally behind us. The two companies announced a renewed deal this week for the next three years. Later, the financial details were leaked and they were quite interesting.
Google will be paying $300 million, €230 million per year, minimum, for the honor of retaining the de... |
23 December 2011
13:31 GMT |
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What better way to sum up Firefox's quite exciting 2011 than with an infographic. Mozilla has put together what it believes were the highlights of this year along with some numbers for context.
On the one hand, there were a lot of new Firefoxes, so to speak. The Android version made its debut. At the same time,... |
23 December 2011
09:41 GMT |
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With Firefox 9 launched and made available to everyone, all of the other Firefox versions, further upstream, will migrate to a new channel. Already, Firefox 10 has landed in the Beta channel, from Aurora.
As is the norm, there are no huge changes or new features in Firefox 10, but there are a few interesting additio... |
23 December 2011
08:11 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, Mozilla and Google announced that they renewed their search deal and that Google would pay to be the default search option in Bing for three more years.
The financial details of the deal were not disclosed, as is the norm. This gave those that had been predicting the end days for Firefox, some ... |
23 December 2011
05:35 GMT |
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Firefox 10 beta has just rolled out, officially, after spending a brief period of time on Mozilla’s servers as a release candidate. Bug fixing is the focus of this build, but some new elements have also been introduced. The new stuff available in this release includes a hidden “forward” button, unt... |
23 December 2011
04:04 GMT |
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A high severity vulnerability was discovered in Mozilla's popular web browser. The flaw affects all Firefox 8.x versions and prior, allowing a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Researchers from the Vulnerability Laboratories have just disclosed their findings, reporting that the security risks involved... |
22 December 2011
10:22 GMT |
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Along with Firefox 9, new versions of the projects that rely on the Gecko 9 engine, SeaMonkey and Thunderbird, have also been made available. Mozilla Thunderbird 9 comes with several new features along with the performance and under-the-hood improvements that are inherent to Gecko 9.
"Mozilla... released new version... |
22 December 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Everyone can relax now, Google and Mozilla have announced that they've reached an agreement over the Firefox search deal, ensuring that Google remains the default search engine in Firefox in most countries for three more years and ensuring that Mozilla has the money to continue to develop and improve its browser... |
21 December 2011
07:51 GMT |
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During the past few months, Mozilla has been hard at work with the delivery of a new experience for mobile users who take advantage of Firefox for accessing the web while on the go. The new Firefox for Android 9 is here to bring forth all of these long expected changes.
According to the company, users can now bene... |
21 December 2011
07:46 GMT |
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Along with Firefox 9, SeaMonkey 2.6, which is based on the same Gecko 9 layout engine and which shares plenty of code with Mozilla's star project, has been released.
Unsurprisingly, SeaMonkey 2.6 boasts essentially the same improvements and new features as Firefox 9. A big update is type inference for JavaScrip... |
21 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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The security advisory that comes with the release of the latest version of the popular web browser, Firefox 9, reveals that a number of four critical, a high and a moderate impact security vulnerabilities were fixed.
A critical one refers to the fact that the application crashes when a video is scaled to extreme siz... |
21 December 2011
05:04 GMT |
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The latest and greatest Firefox is here. After six full weeks of (grueling) expectations, Firefox 9 has been made available to everyone. Existing users will get updated momentarily, those wanting to try out the latest version can grab it from the download links below.
Those that have been keeping up with Firefox 9 d... |
21 December 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Firefox 9 has been officially released. The latest update to the popular browser brings several new features and improvements, the biggest of which is a modification to the JavaScript engine that provides a big performance boost of up to 30 percent in some cases. The latest Firefox uses type inference, a method of d... |
21 December 2011
04:27 GMT |
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The stable release for Firefox 9 is scheduled for today and it seems like the launch is in straight line, as Mozilla’s FTP location for releases has been updated with a copy of Firefox 9.
As we reported on Saturday, a release candidate for the soon-to-be-officially-launched Firefox 9 was spotted on Mozilla&rsq... |
20 December 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Last week, Mozilla introduced the first tangible stage of its Mozilla Labs Apps project which, much like the name implies, aims to create a platform for web applications. This being Mozilla, it will be an open platform and an open market place, one that will also be cross-browser.Since the web apps platform will use ... |
19 December 2011
14:11 GMT |
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With the web browser market share tilting more and more towards Google Chrome, the Firefox development team schemed up a way to at least allow the Chromers to switch to Mozilla’s product as easily as possible, if so they wish.As such, they are already working on making it possible to migrate settings and data f... |
17 December 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Firefox 9 is almost here. Well, Firefox 9 is already here if you're brave enough to grab the release candidate builds that Mozilla has made available but hasn't announced officially. Whether you can or can't wait for three more days (Firefox 9 is coming on December 20) here's what to expect from t... |
17 December 2011
11:31 GMT |
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It's nothing official, but Mozilla is definitely ready to move to Firefox 9 as they uploaded a candidate for the stable release of this version. You can download it straight from their FTP server. Officially still in beta channel, Firefox 9 is scheduled to become stable on December 20, when the code migration f... |
17 December 2011
06:25 GMT |
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The debate over HTML5 video versus Flash video has died down this year and, yes, Flash video is still prevalent. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing happening on the HTML5 side, quite the contrary. Firefox has been making a steady stream of improvements to the HTML5 player, many are in the pipeline,... |
16 December 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Opera 12 is well underway now and promises to be quite an interesting release, with hardware acceleration and WebGL taking the spotlight. But Opera is already working on technologies beyond Opera 12, for example, native 64-bit builds on all platforms and out-of-process-plugins.
In Opera tradition, there is already a... |
16 December 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Microsoft is, slowly as always, getting into line with the other browser makers and will start issuing automatic updates for Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Vista and 7.What this means is that users still running IE8, IE7 or even IE6, will be upgraded to the newest version available for their operating system, IE8 f... |
15 December 2011
19:11 GMT |
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Mozilla has made good on its promise to introduce an open, cross-browser apps platform. It's a developer preview for now, but those that are interested can get in at this early stage.
The eventual goal is to create a marketplace for browser applications that work on any browser (that supports them) and to also ... |
14 December 2011
03:31 GMT |
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Mozilla has made one more step towards a hassle-free update process for Firefox. In the latest Aurora builds which will go on to be Firefox 10, all add-ons default to 'compatible' regardless if they came from the Mozilla Add-ons site, from a different website or even if they were installed locally by the us... |
13 December 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Mozilla, or rather the Firefox team, is facing a somewhat unusual problem that is holding up development in some cases. Firefox can't reliably be compiled because the linker runs out of virtual address space.The problem stems from the fact that Firefox is built on 32-bit machines which can only access a limited ... |
12 December 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Hell is freezing over, pigs are flying and Adblock Plus allows ads on websites. Well, at least one of those is true, the next major version of the very popular browser add-on, to be launched monetarily, will allow some ads to get through, by default.The Adblock Plus browser add-on has long been the friend of everyone... |
12 December 2011
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In a new study issued by Accuvant, Google Chrome was deemed to be the most secure browser, based on the technologies and measures it implements to ensure that rogue code does at little damage as possible. Internet Explorer was found to be close and comparable to Google Chrome, while Firefox was found to be lacking i... |
12 December 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Kahel OS, the first and the only Filipino Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and GNOME, is now at version 111111 and features a GUI Installer. Kahel OS 111111 comes with a user-friendly interface installation designed to help users through the installation process, making the entire experience a lot easier.Kahel ... |
12 December 2011
05:40 GMT |
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As most Firefox users know by now, whether they love it or hate it, Mozilla switched to a rapid release cycle for the browser. A new major version comes out every six weeks and users are encouraged to update as often as they can.
One major difference between Firefox and Chrome, which also comes out once every six we... |
8 December 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Firefox Backup Tool is designed for those users that need to migrate all the data stored by their Firefox browser to a different installation of the application.
Although this can be done manually and there are many other solutions out there ready to tackle the backup problem in Mozilla’s web browser, Firefox ... |
7 December 2011
22:31 GMT |
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As (should have been) expected, Google has no plans to leave Mozilla out in the cold any time soon. Both organizations have said that, while a new search deal for Firefox hasn't been signed yet, they are in active negotiations and are working towards it.
Over the weekend, rampant speculation over the fate of Fi... |
6 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Just as people are "worrying" about the fate of Firefox, for no real reason except pageviews, Mozilla has made a video to showcase why Firefox was created in the first place and why people need Mozilla today as much as they needed it a decade ago.The gist of it is, Mozilla is a non-profit organization. Its interests ... |
5 December 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced that the latest Firefox nightly builds now have support, disabled by default, for the SPDY protocol. Initially developed by Google, SPDY is an improvement of the age old HTTP which aims to cut down on connection times by taking a few shortcuts and optimizing some steps.
It's not a new prot... |
5 December 2011
14:31 GMT |
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The weekend is the best time for speculation, with no real news, anything put out there reverberates all over the web, everyone has an opinion, everyone goes a little further out on a limb and so on. While all of this is good brain exercise, it helps to have at least something to go on.
Case in point, everyone worry... |
5 December 2011
07:21 GMT |
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Mozilla's login technology, BrowserID, is coming along nicely, as always. The group has set a rather lofty goal for itself with BrowserID and no much time to do it, so the progress is encouraging.
BrowserID, which is designed to replace traditional, universal login services such as Google Accounts, Facebook or ... |
2 December 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Google Chrome has solidified its position as the number two browser in the world, according to StatCounter's latest figures. Chrome pushed past Firefox a couple of weeks ago and the monthly market share for November puts Chrome on top for the very first time in history.It has to be emphasized that this is data c... |
1 December 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Google is boasting about the brand new Angry Birds for Chrome. Well, it's not exactly new, it's the same old HTML5 version of Angry Birds that Rovio unveiled a year ago, but it's gotten some new levels in time for the holidays."Starting today, you can play a new episode of your favorite game, with 42 e... |
1 December 2011
13:21 GMT |
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A new build for Firefox 9 beta has been released today, but most users are more interested in the development of Aurora.
The work on silent updates feature is close to completion, as removing the UAC popups in Windows was among the thorniest problems. The team expects the feature to be delivered sometime next week. ... |
1 December 2011
07:24 GMT |
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The web developer tools in Firefox Aurora are not exactly news, but Mozilla just came up with a video to further draw attention on the flexibility of the Page Inspector.The clip is an introductory tutorial for using the Page Inspector and its abilities to check page elements. The tool is pretty intuitive and element ... |
28 November 2011
10:54 GMT |
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HTML5 goes beyond just the <video>, <audio> or the <canvas> tags. And there's more to it than just the big technical features, drag and drop, filesystem support. What makes it really useful are the little things.For example, HTML5 context menus which enable a web app to request that... |
26 November 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Thanksgiving is here, at least for one particular country in the world. Americans get together with their families to celebrate and simply spend some time all in the same place.But for anyone with even the slightest tech inclinations, any holiday with the family means fixing everyone's computers. Few look forwar... |
24 November 2011
17:21 GMT |
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