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Firefox is now the second most popular web browser in the world, with a roughly 20 percent share of the market, no small feat considering that just a few years ago most users didn't even know other browsers besides Internet Explorer existed. It still has a lot of potential growth ahead of it, though, but, with f... |
17 August 2009
05:20 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 bests Firefox 3, Chrome 2, Opera 10 and Safari 4 when it comes down to the effectiveness of the security features designed to protect end users against socially engineered malware and phishing. With the advent if IE8, Microsoft kicked up a notch the anti-phishing capabilities that were delivered b... |
14 August 2009
09:11 GMT |
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After years of veiled and even outspoken criticism from browser makers and many web developers, Microsoft has decided to start supporting the proposed HTML 5 standard in its Internet Explorer web browser. While known for its spotty support of even ratified standards, Internet Explorer has been moving in the right dir... |
8 August 2009
07:30 GMT |
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Mozilla has released yet another alpha build of its powerful web browser for Mac, Windows and Linux, Firefox. Version 3.6 Alpha 1 is immediately available for free download on machines running Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Alpha and Beta builds of Mac software are not to be relied upon. Readers download and use such builds... |
8 August 2009
06:21 GMT |
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Firefox 3.5 is barely a month out the door and already commands 4.54 percent of the overall browser market, according to numbers from Net Applications, while Internet Explorer 6 and 7 continue to lose market share. Still, the overall picture is pretty much unchanged, with Firefox 3.5 and IE 8 cannibalizing on their o... |
5 August 2009
04:07 GMT |
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Firefox is all about bringing people together but at the same time about freedom and individuality. From the start the browser has encouraged a collaborative atmosphere with thousands of developers around the world working on the project but, equally important, on the add-ons and all the customizations that have made... |
4 August 2009
05:36 GMT |
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The folks at Mozilla have updated the release notes for the two Firefox branches (3.5 and 3.0), revealing that final versions of the popular web browser are now available for download. As usual, the Mozilla FTP had been listing the releases for quite some time, but only yesterday evening were the two final versions m... |
4 August 2009
03:57 GMT |
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The guys over at Mozilla have performed a series of updates to their popular web browser, Firefox. While reported to have turned the older 3.5.1 and 3.0.12 versions to 3.5.2 beta and 3.0.13 beta only a few days ago, the two variants of the application are actually available for download in the final form, sporting a ... |
4 August 2009
02:20 GMT |
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Mozilla has released new versions of its popular web browser used by a billion people across the world on Mac, Windows and Linux. The software is free to download and install on any supported machine. Readers can grab the latest version of Firefox right here on Softpedia. Mozilla has revealed that Firefox 3.5.2 Beta... |
3 August 2009
09:40 GMT |
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It took five years, three major versions and the contribution of thousands of volunteers, but Firefox has reached one billion downloads. Not so much a technical milestone, the number has a greater importance in reminding what it took to get here and how the browser market, and the Internet as a whole, have evolved. A... |
1 August 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Firefox has become such an integral part of the browsing experience and such a household name that you could easily forget that “just” five years ago it was an up-and-comer in a non-existent browser market where Internet Explorer reigned supreme. And in just five years Firefox has risen to become the majo... |
31 July 2009
02:43 GMT |
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Mozilla does have a habit of releasing new versions of some of its projects at a lightning fast pace. This can't be expected for its main products, like Firefox, but for its more experimental projects, from the Mozilla Labs, new versions can come as fast as within a week. And now, almost a month to the day, Moz... |
30 July 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Firefox development is coming along as planned, with all branches moving forward at a steady pace. Future major releases already have a set time schedule, and feature and design changes are already being proposed, with Firefox 3.6 coming this fall and 3.7 in spring 2010. This, less than a month after the big 3.5 rele... |
22 July 2009
02:40 GMT |
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Firefox 3.5 is barely out the door but development hasn't slowed down at Mozilla, with a bug fixing version, 3.5.1, having just come out and others soon to follow. Meanwhile, work has already started on the upcoming major release, dubbed Firefox.next to avoid the issues that affected 3.1 which became 3.5 after a... |
21 July 2009
11:29 GMT |
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Development on Jetpack, Mozilla's lightweight extension platform for Firefox, is moving at a blistering pace, and, just five days since the last version, Mozilla is launching Jetpack 0.4. You'd think that a work week is hardly enough time to get one feature done, but the new version is actually sporting an ... |
18 July 2009
03:34 GMT |
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Mozilla has released a new version of its popular web browser, Firefox. The release notes for Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 reveal that developers have been able to address several security issues, as well as to improve the stability of the software. By digging deeper into the release notes, we see that Mozilla has also patc... |
17 July 2009
08:24 GMT |
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A critical security vulnerability in the latest Firefox 3.5 was disclosed a few days ago affecting the Just-in-Time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. The bug could be used by an attacker to execute malicious code if the users visited a site specially designed for this requiring no other interaction from them. Considering th... |
17 July 2009
02:54 GMT |
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Firefox has been built from the ground up as an open-source project with user contribution as the driving force. Most of the development on Firefox, especially at the beginning, came from individuals around the world donating their spare time to the project. And while most of them do it out of passion and don't ... |
16 July 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Mozilla's lightweight extensions platform Jetpack is coming along nicely and the latest version was just released less than two months since it was first launched. Jetpack 0.3 comes one month after 0.2 and brings some new functionality as well as a few updates. The project is aimed at making it easier for beginn... |
13 July 2009
03:25 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced a major upgrade of its browser command-line tool Ubiquity, which has now reached version 0.5. The upgrade brings some new features and better internationalization to allow Ubiquity to reach a greater number of users. It’s still a Firefox extension for now but the company plans to integrate... |
9 July 2009
09:25 GMT |
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Launched three months ago, Personas is a Firefox extension that allows for easy customization of the browser's appearance. Though in the works at Mozilla Labs since 2007, just recently the organization put its weight behind the project and pushed to make it an integral part of the Firefox 3.5 experience and now ... |
9 July 2009
06:29 GMT |
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We've all seen the “Rediscover the web” or even the “This website is optimized for Firefox” banners from back in the day when Firefox was the new kid on the block. OK, so maybe not all of the sites were actually optimized for Firefox but as long as it spread the message and got people usi... |
9 July 2009
03:01 GMT |
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Firefox 3.5 was shipped to the general public on June 30th, 2009, and now Mozilla is turning its attention to the next iteration of the open-source browser. Upcoming versions of Firefox will share a feature with rivals Chrome and Internet Explorer 8. Essentially Mozilla is looking to implement an enhancement designed... |
8 July 2009
11:09 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 RTW, the gold build of IE7's successor, has been successfully locked out of a Mozilla Labs project designed to highlight a selection of web development tools available. The Open Web Tools Directory from Mozilla Labs aims to be a central index of tools that have been put together in order to s... |
7 July 2009
07:04 GMT |
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Firefox may be one of the most popular browsers out there but lately it has seen increased competition and in some cases has been outpaced by Chrome, Safari and even Internet Explorer. Firefox 3.5 does bring some innovations but for the most part it had a pretty quiet release. However, there are people working on pus... |
7 July 2009
03:45 GMT |
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The open-source browser from Mozilla has managed to grab a share of the market representing no less than half of the Microsoft proprietary browser, according to StatCounter data. Essentially, the market measuring firm indicates that Internet Explorer's share has dropped to under 60% while Firefox has grown conti... |
6 July 2009
10:07 GMT |
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Firefox 3.5 dropped this week and downloads will soon reach 15 million worldwide. Bringing a lot of improvements, enhanced performance, especially for JavaScript, and some big new features, Mozilla's latest browser is looking like a solid release. If you don't take into account the 60-or-so bugs it was laun... |
6 July 2009
02:59 GMT |
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The highly anticipated Firefox 3.5 was just launched two days ago and already it's beginning to see some traction in the browser market with reports putting it at a 2 percent share. It also hit more than 5 million downloads in the first 24 hours, a very respectable number, though smaller than last year's la... |
2 July 2009
10:20 GMT |
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The latest version of Mozilla's popular web browser Firefox has just been made available to the public. Firefox 3.5 comes after several months of delays but brings some major improvements and new features to make up for it. While the wait has been long and the development schedule went through a large number of ... |
30 June 2009
11:40 GMT |
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Coinciding with the upcoming launch of Firefox 3.5, which should be coming later in the day, Mozilla has released the latest version of its bookmark and browser history synchronizing technology, Weave Sync 0.4.0. This version brings some new features, support for Mozilla's mobile browser, Fennec, on the Maemo Li... |
30 June 2009
09:04 GMT |
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Yahoo has released a new browser toolbar today for Internet Explorer and Firefox, which adds a number of new features including the possibility to preview some sites like Yahoo Mail or Weather but also non-Yahoo services like eBay. “Yahoo! Toolbar has always made navigating the web easier – acting as a ... |
18 June 2009
09:43 GMT |
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With the advent of Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft has expanded the list of ports blocked by the browser, in comparison to previous versions of IE, namely IE6 and IE7. While past releases of Internet Explorer blocked eight ports, with IE8 Microsoft has extended the list to no less than 10. This behavior is by default a... |
18 June 2009
07:32 GMT |
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Microsoft Australia has buried $10,000 somewhere on the Internet and is inviting users to download and install Internet Explorer 8 and then follow a series of clues that will potentially lead them to the money. Aiming to emphasize that the webpage where the $10,000 is buried can only be viewed with IE8, the division ... |
17 June 2009
09:20 GMT |
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Mozilla introduced Jetpack, an application programming interface designed to permit developers to apply web development technologies and skills to building Firefox add-ons, in May 2009. Since the initial, 0.1 version release of the API, no less than four updates were introduced, focused mainly on resolving bugs with ... |
12 June 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Firefox 3.5 may be coming soon, but the vast majority of people is still using Firefox 3. And, while the focus of the enthusiasts and the development team may be on the upcoming version, Firefox 3 is still getting some attention from Mozilla and, while it won't get any new features or major tweaks, there are sti... |
12 June 2009
02:44 GMT |
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Geolocation is a much touted feature of the upcoming Firefox 3.5. But it isn't talked about for no reason, since geolocation is becoming more and more important today as mobile Internet connections are getting faster and there are a multitude of devices to take advantage of those speeds. As part of the ‘Fi... |
10 June 2009
04:40 GMT |
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Firefox 3.5's release date is still in the shrouds as more delays have pushed even the Release Candidate version beyond its initial schedule. What's more, an unplanned interim version was released today, dubbed Firefox 3.5 Preview and marked as Beta 99, to act as a stepping stone between Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 ... |
9 June 2009
11:03 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs' experiment of connecting the web with language is moving to the next stage in its evolution. Come mid-June 2009, Ubiquity will evolve to version 0.5. Jono DiCarlo, from the Ubiquity development team, explained that the 0.5 versioning was designed to illustrate the fact that the next iteration of th... |
1 June 2009
04:19 GMT |
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Last.fm, a service with social networking components, has proved very popular with music fans who like to share their tastes with their friends, and one of the best parts about it is that it lets you scrobble your music. Scrobbling is a process that involves getting the song info and uploading it to Last.fm, and you ... |
27 May 2009
05:34 GMT |
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One of Firefox's strongest points and by far its most popular feature is the capability to install user-created add-ons, small applications that improve browsing experience. Add-ons have been a great success both for users but also for developers and now Mozilla wants to make it even easier to make one so it lau... |
26 May 2009
10:56 GMT |
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FoxyTunes is one of the most popular Firefox extensions there are, so popular actually that it was acquired by Yahoo! Music for $40 million and they continued to develop it. Its latest release has added support for YouTube to the growing list of web services it supports. Now you can control the video and also browse ... |
26 May 2009
08:33 GMT |
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Twitter, the micro-blogging service, has seen a surge in popularity in the last few months. In keeping with its real-time nature, people want to be able to access it faster and easier and have it be available all the time not just when they're using the site. So we've gathered the most popular Twitter add-o... |
25 May 2009
06:23 GMT |
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With Jetpack for Firefox, Mozilla Labs is nothing short of exploring new ways to extend and personalize the web. The project is designed to lend a streamline add-on development for the Firefox open-source browser. Mozilla recognized developers building add-ons for Firefox as a source of innovation on the Internet, nu... |
21 May 2009
08:36 GMT |
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Google Chrome is nothing short of a non-event, Mozilla's Firefox is defective, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer is going nowhere fast, while continuing to lose market share to rivals. These are the conclusions of a whitepaper put together by Janco Associates. The market analysis firm has slammed Chrome as ... |
14 May 2009
03:47 GMT |
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A debate playing out in the Mozilla planning forum reveals that the company behind the popular web browser for Mac, Linux and PC is likely to drop Tiger support in the versions following Firefox 3.5. "I'd still like to drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 in Gecko 1.9.2, I don't want to be worrying about 10.4 un... |
30 April 2009
06:08 GMT |
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Mozilla has released a new update to its powerful web browser for Mac, PC and Linux, fixing a critical issue caused by one of the security fixes in Firefox 3.0.9. The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2009-23 reveals that users of the HTML Validator add-on were particularly affected. Titled “Crash in nsText... |
28 April 2009
06:36 GMT |
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The Firefox Superbar is about to be kicked to the next level with the integration of Ubiquity. Right now all that is available from Mozilla is the Taskfox Prototype, an illustration of what Ubiquity blended into Firefox's fabric would look like to the end user. Of course, you can watch the video embedded at the ... |
9 April 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8, the Release Candidate of IE8 to be exact, produced the highest score in a comparison performed by NSS Labs, which threw it against IE7, Google Chrome 1.0.154, Apple Safari 3, Mozilla Firefox 3.07 and Opera 9.64. The tests were designed to reveal which browser offered the highest level of protecti... |
24 March 2009
13:51 GMT |
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Back in 2008, following rivals Microsoft and Google, Mozilla set out to customize the white space associated with a new tab opened in Firefox, in order to put the empty screen real estate place to good use to the advantage of the end user. IE8 and Chrome are long offering various options via new opened tabs. In the s... |
24 March 2009
10:50 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed officially the zero-day vulnerability impacting Internet Explorer 8, the latest iteration of its IE browser. The security flaw was demonstrated on the first day of the Pwn2Own hacking context of the CanSecWest 2009 in Vancouver the past week. A security researcher identified only as Nils manag... |
23 March 2009
07:34 GMT |
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