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Mozilla has big plans for 2012. While 2011 saw the introduction of Firefox 4 and the brand new user interface created for it, updates and changes were few after that. But there is a big redesign in the works, it's been in the concept stage for a while now.
Work is still being done, but the latest mockups are t... |
14 February 2012
15:31 GMT |
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2011 was a transition year for Mozilla, it moved from its tried and tested, but also slow, release cycle to a much faster one where a new Firefox comes out every six weeks. The move hasn't always been smooth, but Mozilla has worked out most of the kinks. Now, that the wheels are in motion and Firefox adds more ... |
14 February 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 10 won’t be the only browser that Windows 8 users will be able to enjoy on their devices starting later this year.
Mozilla is also looking into bringing its Firefox browser to Windows 8, and has already offered some details on how it aims to make the move.
However, the company notes that ... |
14 February 2012
08:52 GMT |
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Although Firefox 13 is a long way to go, the development team has mapped out the features they’re looking to integrate. One of them is a panel-based download manager, which would replace the current solution.
Improved user experience is the main reason for this, as the current model is not fully integrated wit... |
13 February 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Mozilla is finally ready to unveil the Firefox New Tab Page. It's been working on it for a while but the latest iteration is rather new. It's fairly basic too, but Mozilla wants some real world testing so it's enabling it in the Aurora builds for a limited time."We turned the New Tab feature on by defa... |
10 February 2012
17:21 GMT |
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There have been talks about releasing a new version of Firefox this week. This chemspill release should not be too surprising since Firefox 8 and 9 already built up a pattern in this sense.
The purpose of Firefox 10.0.1 is to fix two top issues that could not wait until the launch of the future major version. One of... |
10 February 2012
03:43 GMT |
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Mozilla is toiling away at BrowserID, its attempt at a decentralized identity and login system. It has now announced a major step forward, other entities can now be identity providers, helping a great deal with the "decentralized" part.
"Last week we pushed out a BrowserID feature that gets us closer to the decentra... |
8 February 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Mozilla has a rather ambitious plan with WebAPI, it wants to enable web apps to leverage capabilities and features exclusive to native apps so far. The idea is to enable applications built with web technologies to access features such as a phone's dialer, the accelerometer or even battery status.It's part o... |
7 February 2012
19:21 GMT |
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The latest Firefox 12 Aurora comes with one small tweak that may even go unnoticed, but it is going to make a lot of difference for a lot of users. Firefox 12 comes with Smooth Scrolling enabled by default.
The technology has been built into Firefox for a long time now, but it has been buried away in the Firefox pre... |
7 February 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Firefox 10 has been released at the end of January and we’ve all seen the new features it offers. However, the performance of the web browser, compared to the previous version, also changed, for the better, as you can see from the results of our testing. We compared Firefox 10 and 9 in Kraken JavaScript benchm... |
6 February 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Mozilla's switch to the rapid release cycle, which sees a new firefox come out every six weeks, has been a rather rough one. By now, most users have adapted to it, there's been no massive decrease in Firefox users and the latest versions usually become the most popular soon after they are released.
But the... |
6 February 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Firefox is a community-driven, or at least helped, project. Steered by Mozilla, a non-profit, Firefox is nonetheless a community effort and contributions are not only welcomed, they're requested.
Contributing to Firefox though, where contributing means code and not donations or anything else, is hard.
That... |
6 February 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Mozilla is working on an interesting addition to the web, push notifications. The idea is to enable websites to notify users of updates even when the users are not visiting the site, the same way a mobile application can notify users of update even if it's not running in the foreground.
The benefits of such a f... |
6 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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After an unwanted delay, SPDY support is finally moving forward in Firefox. The latest Firefox 11 Beta includes support for the updated HTTP developed by Google and already supported by several sites, including most Google sites.SPDY, as the name suggests aims to improve the performance of websites by optimizing HTTP... |
4 February 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Firefox 12 has landed in the Aurora channel, meaning it's the first chance most users get to see it in action. Granted, if you've been using Firefox 11 so far, there's not much to see, the changes, as usual, are incremental.
There's still work to be done, so some changes will land during the six ... |
4 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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With Firefox 10 out the door and Firefox 12 already in the Aurora channel, Firefox 11 was moved up to the Beta channel. Firefox 11 comes with several new features so far, though the emphasis is on developers rather than regular users. Firefox 11 Beta adds Add-ons to the list of settings and data that can be synced t... |
4 February 2012
06:20 GMT |
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Mozilla finished migrating the code to Aurora, and, as a result, what’s to turn into Firefox 12 stable on April 24, is now available for download. It brings to the table some interesting features, which, hopefully, will not be pushed back and will move to more stable versions of the web browser.
One important ... |
3 February 2012
12:51 GMT |
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A couple of years ago Firefox debuted Personas, a simpler way of customizing the look of your browser. Unlike traditional themes which required quite extensive knowledge, Personas were very easy to create.This explains why there are thousands of them available in the online repository. But Mozilla feels that the name... |
3 February 2012
03:11 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced that users of Thunderbird 3.1 have until April 24 to migrate to a newer version of the email client, since the old one will no longer be supported. All development will be halted at said date, which means that no security or performance fixes will be provided. Truth be told, Thunderbird 3.1.x i... |
1 February 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Along with Firefox 10, Mozilla has also released Thunderbird 10, as always. Apart from the improvements to Gecko 10, which benefit both Thunderbird and Firefox, the email client comes with several specific new features. The most touted addition is the ability to search the web within Thunderbird if you so desire. Th... |
1 February 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Along with Firefox 10, Mozilla has made available the first ever Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox. This version will enjoy support, security patches mainly, for at least one year before a new version is launched.
The idea is to give enterprises and other big organizations a chance to test the browser and ad... |
1 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Together with releasing the stable version for Firefox 10, Mozilla also rolled out the stable build for their email client, Thunderbird.
The list of newly added features for this release is very short and not at all unexpected, taking into consideration that they’ve been advertised in the beta, as well.
As su... |
1 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Mozilla started working on a set of built-in developer tools not long ago. Since then, it's been making considerable progress and, with Firefox 10, the tools are now pretty useful.
Firefox 10 debuts a very snazzy looking but also very useful Web Inspector which enables developers to find out more about a page b... |
1 February 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Firefox 10 is now available for download and should be pushed via the update channel to all Firefox users over the next few days. The latest release brings a number of features, though regular users will only notice some small tweaks and changes, like the removal of the forward button, unless it's needed.
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1 February 2012
04:57 GMT |
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In the release notes accompanying Firefox 10 Final for Mac OS X, Mozilla has confirmed that users will (or should) no longer experience crashes when closing a tab with a Java applet installed. Growl integration, however, still needs more work to behave properly.
The changelog for Firefox 10.0 was published yesterday... |
1 February 2012
02:58 GMT |
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Firefox 10, which is set to debut any minute now, comes with several new features that will appeal to both regular users and developers. But one in particular should have a huge effect on how Firefox is used and updated, add-ons will be marked as compatible by default, meaning that a new Firefox version won't bl... |
31 January 2012
12:31 GMT |
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You may remember that last month Mozilla was having trouble with Firefox, it failed to build in certain situations as the linker would hit the virtual address space limit of 3GB, on Windows. Unable to secure more memory, the linking process would fail, leaving developers unable to build binaries. This was a serious... |
31 January 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Firefox 10 is about to land. One of the new features that Mozilla is boasting about is support for the Fullscreen API, part of the HTML5 standard. At this point, Firefox, Chrome and Safari all support the feature, meaning that developers can start leveraging it in their web apps.
"One thing which has been very impor... |
31 January 2012
08:03 GMT |
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The final version of Firefox 10 is up for grabs, despite the lack of an official announcement from Mozilla, the authors of the popular web browser. We’ve grown accustomed to Mozilla’s modus operandi - the binary is always made available before the official announcement hits the wires. There’s no ch... |
31 January 2012
03:27 GMT |
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Some of you may have noticed that the stable version of Firefox 10 is already available for download on Softpedia. As usual, Mozilla made the binaries available on their servers prior to the official launch, accompanied by the release notes for this version.
The highlights for this release revolve around add-ons, as... |
31 January 2012
02:45 GMT |
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Mozilla's Asa Dotzler has announced that Firefox will be dropping support for Windows 2000 and pre-SP2 Windows XP, starting with Firefox 13. New releases will only work on Windows XP SP2+, as well as on Vista and Windows 7.Mozilla has had to drop support for these older operating systems in order to be able to s... |
30 January 2012
18:51 GMT |
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Mozilla has been working on a new tab page for ages now, slowly evolving the feature. But it has done it in the separate UX branch, created by the Mozilla user experience team to test out ideas and design.
The UX branch is separate from the main Firefox branches as well as from the regular release and build cycle. I... |
30 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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Google is working on all fronts to make the web faster. It's constantly optimizing its websites and services to squeeze out every last inch of performance, but it's also working on improving the underlying architecture of the web. One project that attempts this is SPDY a version of the HTTP protocol built w... |
27 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Google is not the only one working on its own programming language. Mozilla is doing the same and has now debuted the first public release of a compiler and associated set of tools for the Rust programming language.Rust aims to be similar to C and C++, in which Firefox itself is built, at least from a syntax point of... |
26 January 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Mozilla is working on the delivery of a new flavor of their Firefox for Android mobile browser, one that would bring along a very important feature, namely a Native UI.
The company has been working on this release for the past several months, and is readying the beta version of the browser now.
The Native UI Fir... |
26 January 2012
05:42 GMT |
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Mozilla is testing an interesting new feature in the upcoming Firefox 10, now in beta, the ability to fix issues and release patches of sorts via an add-on rather than a full browser update.
It's easy to see the advantages of this, even Firefox's semi-automated update process involves a lot of hassle and o... |
23 January 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Mozilla is planning to add a 'reset' button to Firefox. The idea is to enable users to repair their Firefox install or revert to a default state, while also retaining their data, bookmarks, history and so on. Work is underway on implementing the feature, which will be accessible in several ways.
"There are... |
19 January 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Mozilla has joined the fray and is implementing a blackout of the entire Mozilla.org site in protest of SOPA and PIPA, the two ill-conceived anti-piracy laws that threaten the very fabric of the internet. Mozilla.org is one of the top 10 websites in the world and joins Wikipedia.org, another top 10 site, in implem... |
18 January 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Mozilla has always been more than Firefox, but the organization is about to spread out even more this year. Mozilla is working on several things that should make the web better for users, but they are not strictly related to Firefox.
What's more, they mean that the organization will be venturing into new thin... |
16 January 2012
08:11 GMT |
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The Thunderbird team has announced that there will be an extended support release of the email client, just like the one for Firefox.
Thunderbird ESR will be supported for one year with security updates enabling companies, organizations and institutions to have time to test the software to make sure it complies wit... |
12 January 2012
06:41 GMT |
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Mozilla has announced that it will be releasing an Extended Support Release build of Firefox. The decision has been made and Firefox 10 will be the first ESR. This release will be supported for a year, more or less, at which point a new ESR will be made available, Firefox 17.There are still some minor details to work... |
10 January 2012
16:10 GMT |
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Hardcore Thunderbird users, and even less addicted ones, are already familiar with Lightning, Mozilla’s extension for offering a calendar in their email client.
Lightning 1.0 has been introduced in Thunderbird 8.0 as an integrated add-on, back in November, 2011. However, a new edition, Lightning 1.2b1, is alre... |
9 January 2012
09:24 GMT |
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Firefox 10 has been in the beta channel for a couple of weeks now and is well underway to becoming the next Firefox. One of the big new features in the upcoming release, not so much from a technical point of view but from an impact point of view, is add-on compatibility.
Essentially, most if not all add-ons will be ... |
6 January 2012
13:51 GMT |
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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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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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The development of the SeaMonkey project continues, bringing the suite to the second beta for version 2.7. It is available in 24 languages, for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
One important modification is the fact that add-ons are compatible by default, as long as they work with SeaMonkey 2.1 or above.
The new versio... |
3 January 2012
03:57 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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Mozilla released both the Beta and the Earlybird versions of its email client. Thunderbird 10 beta has gone through plenty of bug fixing, but the highlights of this build refer to more palpable changes that can be easier observed by the regular user.
As such, Thunderbird 10 beta brings to the table a new ability to ... |
27 December 2011
04:56 GMT |
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