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Mozilla may be known for its Firefox web browser but these days, it has spread out its interests over many web-related aspects. For a while now, it has spun off its communications arm into Mozilla Messaging, which mostly handles Thunderbird, one of the earliest and most popular projects at Mozilla. The old-school des... |
6 November 2009
11:29 GMT |
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Mozilla Labs is working on several interesting projects at a time. Some graduate and become integral parts of Firefox, like Personas, but others are more long-run projects. One of them, Mozilla Weave, has the potential to change the way we use browsers and the web, but for now it's still pretty much in the early... |
6 November 2009
10:01 GMT |
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Firefox is always evolving and adding new features and changes to the functionality. Most of the times developers try to do the best they can to meet the users' needs, but usually there isn't enough data to really know in what direction to move next. This is why Mozilla has introduced the Test Pilot program... |
5 November 2009
09:07 GMT |
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The people at Mozilla have released a new version of their popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox. Although still in beta, Firefox 3.6 (revision 1) is the latest development milestone of the next version of the Firefox web browser, and is considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing.Mozilla does note,... |
31 October 2009
05:16 GMT |
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Firefox 3.5 is already a few months “old” and Mozilla is gearing up to launch its follow-up, Firefox 3.6. This latest version is only a small evolution nowhere near the number of updates and new features that 3.5 had but it's still more than just a bug-fixing release. Now, the first Firefox 3.6 beta ... |
31 October 2009
04:46 GMT |
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The first fully-fledged Beta development milestone of the next generation of Mozilla’s open source browser is currently available for download. Testers and early adopters that have been waiting for Firefox 3.6, codenamed Namoroka, to evolve from Alpha stage are now free to access, download, install and start te... |
31 October 2009
04:31 GMT |
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Firefox has seen a wave of new users recently and the number of active monthly users has increased by 30 million over the past two months. This interesting piece of information came straight from Mozilla, more specifically from the CEO of the Mozilla Corporation himself, John Lilly. According to ZDNet UK, this was c... |
28 October 2009
08:07 GMT |
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Mozilla has released two new versions of its popular, cross-platform web browser, Firefox. Branches 3.5 and 3.0 have been updated with security fixes, stability tweaks, as well as new abilities and other enhancements. Mozilla Firefox versions 3.5.4 and 3.0.15 are immediately available for download right here, on Soft... |
28 October 2009
04:54 GMT |
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While Mozilla developers and contributors are putting the finishing touches on the Firefox 3.6 beta, the current versions of the popular browser are still getting their share of the attention with the release of Firefox 3.5.4 and Firefox 3.0.15 from the only two currently supported branches. They come with the usual ... |
28 October 2009
04:07 GMT |
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Firefox has always been about choice and customization. One of the greatest appeals of the browser was the possibility to alter the look and feel and add new functionality with user-created extensions. One component of the customization process has been the option to use different themes to change how the browser loo... |
27 October 2009
12:17 GMT |
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The wait for the first Beta build of Firefox 3.6 is over. Mozilla has confirmed officially that it will push Firefox 3.6 out of Alpha and into Beta tomorrow, October 28th, 2009. In this regard, the successor of Firefox 3.5 advances to the next step in its evolution, although the beta stage should have come earlier ac... |
27 October 2009
12:16 GMT |
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There's never been so much information so easily available in the history of mankind but this deluge of data coming our way from all directions is getting harder and harder to manage. The need for a better system of organizing all the different sources is very apparent but, so far, there hasn't been anythin... |
23 October 2009
04:08 GMT |
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The latest iteration of Mozilla's Firefox web browser is scheduled to be released in beta in a few days but one issue has split people involved with Firefox development. The upcoming Firefox 3.6 doesn't bring too many new features and is a very small evolutionary step. As such Mozilla's Firefox directo... |
22 October 2009
10:23 GMT |
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Fonts may not exactly be the most glamorous of web technologies, but they represent one of the most important and one that has stagnated for a very long period of time. Things are finally moving in this area as well and new formats and standards are beginning to pop up. Now, Mozilla is throwing its hat in the ring wi... |
21 October 2009
12:04 GMT |
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In just a matter of years, Firefox has risen to become the number 2 browser on the market, even in the context of Microsoft’s Windows monopoly. But while the focus on the Internet/Cloud continues to increase, the relevance and importance of browsers in end user scenarios becomes critical. Mozilla, just as other... |
19 October 2009
10:31 GMT |
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Mozilla, the not-for-profit organization behind the Firefox browser, is already working on a browser for mobile phones, which is called Fennec. Available at the moment for download for Maemo devices, in a Beta 4 flavor, and for Windows Mobile-powered ones, in an Alpha 1 version, the browser will also come to Google&#... |
19 October 2009
09:28 GMT |
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Browser makers are on somewhat of an arms race trying to one-up each other with new useful or just plain fun features. The developers can't go all out in most cases of course, as there is still this little thing called web standards to consider but there are plenty of places left for innovation. Mozilla's u... |
13 October 2009
03:48 GMT |
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There is an ongoing battle between website owners and makers of ad-blocking add-ons or similar products. SkipScreen is a Firefox add-on designed to make it easier for users to download files from free hosting sites like Rapidshare, Zshare and the likes by skipping through all of the unnecessary steps and through the ... |
8 October 2009
06:02 GMT |
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Mozilla is preparing to launch a previously promised Web page that will check if a user's plugins are outdated. While for now it has to be manually accessed in order for the check to be performed, all this will happen automatically starting with Firefox 3.6.Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 versions introduced a new feat... |
7 October 2009
11:00 GMT |
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Mozilla has just released a new version of its Firefox customization extension Personas. The feature allows users to change the look of their browser with easy to install themes from a gallery that now boasts close to 30,000 models to choose from. Personas 1.3 introduces the possibility to automatically change the th... |
5 October 2009
06:08 GMT |
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The Google Chrome Frame is seeing another round of criticism but this time it isn't from Microsoft, but from another browser maker – one that has historically had a much better relationship with Google – Mozilla. Mike Shaver, Mozilla's VP of engineering, has some very real concerns about the Fra... |
2 October 2009
03:16 GMT |
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Firefox 4.0 is the flavor of Mozilla's web browser that is expected to come to the market sometimes in the second half of next year, while delivering to users a series of visual changes that will start to appear as soon as Firefox 3.7 is pushed out. We already had a glimpse at how the 3.7 version of Firefox migh... |
30 September 2009
08:02 GMT |
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Mozilla's messaging add-on experiment has reached its third iteration with the release of Snowl 0.3. The add-on aims to unify online conversations no matter where their original source is, be it an RSS or Atom feed or Twitter. The latest version brings an experience better integrated with Firefox and also makes ... |
21 September 2009
06:36 GMT |
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It looks like support for the upcoming web 3D graphics project WebGL is building up fast, as, just one week after it made its way into Webkit's latest experimental source-code releases, Mozilla Firefox 3.7 nightly builds also sport the new feature. The project is still pretty much in the early stages and still h... |
21 September 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Mozilla is working its way to deliver the first beta development milestone of Firefox 3.6., codename Namoroka. The next iteration of the open-source browser won’t have any additional Alpha releases and will advance straight to Beta, with the final release planned for just two months away. At the start of this w... |
18 September 2009
15:11 GMT |
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It took a little longer than the previous one to bake but the new version of Mozilla's Jetpack add-on framework for Firefox is now live and brimming with new features. Maybe not exactly brimming but the ones that are included make the wait worth while for developers and users alike. Jetpack 0.5's biggest n... |
12 September 2009
03:12 GMT |
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Mozilla updated all supported versions of its web browser, Firefox, bringing the older branch to 3.0.14 and the latest version to 3.5.3. Both were security and bug-fixing updates, so there's nothing too exiting about them, but you should update to the latest version as soon as possible. You are also encouraged t... |
10 September 2009
02:56 GMT |
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While working on upcoming releases of its open source browser, such as versions 3.6 and 3.7, Mozilla is also continuing to ensure the evolution of current support variants. Starting today, September 9, 2009, users will be able to download Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14. In a Firefox / Gecko Development Meeting on S... |
9 September 2009
12:24 GMT |
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Mozilla will be rolling out a new feature in the upcoming Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 versions that is geared towards decreasing the number of vulnerable Adobe Flash Player installations. According to Firefox developers, this is only the first step of an implementation that will eventually automatically update all the p... |
7 September 2009
05:29 GMT |
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Announced earlier this year and finally launched last month, Mozilla's Firefox Test Pilot program is kicking off with its first actual test. The study doesn't seem too glamorous, but covers one of the most important and basic elements of a modern browser, the navigational tabs. The idea is to collect data o... |
4 September 2009
08:26 GMT |
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Mozilla released the newest version of its, arguably, biggest addition to the Firefox web browser, the online add-on gallery. The new AMO 5.0.9 comes with a bunch of new or improved features, which could really change the way users discover new add-ons with “Recommendations” and “Collections,”... |
29 August 2009
06:45 GMT |
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Despite the very short release schedule, the people at Mozilla Labs always manage to get a significant number of new features and improvements with every iteration of their projects. The latest version of Mozilla Weave Sync is no exception, with 0.6 bringing a greatly improved and simplified UI as well as better perf... |
28 August 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Firefox 3 has been out for over a year now and Firefox 3.5 is closing in in two months, yet a lot of people are still using the old Firefox 2. Mozilla set out to find what is keeping these users from upgrading and the results were surprising, though very legitimate. The main reason why users hold on to their old brow... |
27 August 2009
03:43 GMT |
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Two weeks after Moxie Marlinspikes and Dan Kaminsky revealed null byte SSL exploits in Mozilla software, the recent security update from the Thunderbird crew comes to completely fix Mozilla's SSL certificate handling problems. Previous security updates patched the Firefox browser (3.5.2 and 3.0.13), and can be f... |
21 August 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Just as Google released its latest developer channel build of the Chrome web browser sporting brand-new bookmark syncing capabilities, Mozilla also provided an update on the short-term and long-term development focus of its own synchronizing technology, Weave. Mozilla Weave 0.5 was launched just a short while ago an... |
18 August 2009
12:03 GMT |
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Mozilla is pushing forward not only with Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.7, but also with the mobile flavor of its open-source browser. In this regard, Aakash Desai, QA engineer at Mozilla, issued a public call for testers of the Beta development milestone of Fennec 1.0. All testers will be welcomed to participate in the t... |
17 August 2009
06:29 GMT |
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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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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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The proposed HTML 5 standard is far from being a done deal but new features are already being added to the list. One of the most exciting ones is 3D hardware acceleration allowing web pages to have native 3D graphics capabilities independent of any proprietary implementation. Industry consortium Khronos Group showcas... |
5 August 2009
10:36 GMT |
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Mozilla announced that its US official store website had been shut down due to a security breach that resulted in costumer data being compromised. GatewayCDI, the third-party vendor operating the site's back-end, is currently investigating the incident. The Mozilla Store website, store.mozilla.com, was launched... |
5 August 2009
07:19 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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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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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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It has already been confirmed that Mozilla is cooking a redesign of the graphical user interface for the next iterations of its open-source browser. Mockups have already been made public for Firefox 3.7 running on top of the Windows operating system. However, Mozilla has now taken it to the next level and unveiled pl... |
28 July 2009
02:52 GMT |
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With much of the focus on Firefox lately, it's easy to forget Mozilla's other important piece of software, the Thunderbird email client. The application has been one of the most popular email desktop clients for some years now, and the release of the upcoming Thunderbird 3 is getting closer with the availab... |
23 July 2009
11:51 GMT |
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The past week, Mozilla released the first patch for Firefox 3.5 concomitantly with the candidates for version 3.0.12 of the mid-2008 release of its open-source browser. As of July 21st, 2009, Mozilla wrapped up Firefox 3.0.12, and the security and stability update is currently available for download. End users runnin... |
22 July 2009
10:06 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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