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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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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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The most prominent change in Mozilla Thunderbird 9 is that it is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 9 engine. It also features an opt-in system for users to send to the development team reports on performance and usability.
With this new version of the email client also comes improved support for Personas in “Comp... |
22 December 2011
07:38 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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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 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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Mozilla has rolled out the latest stable version of its immensely popular web browser, Firefox. Available immediately for all supported platforms, including Mac OS X, Firefox 9 delivers a few Mac-specific enhancements, and some improved JavaScript performance.Firefox 9 adds Type Inference, which significantly improve... |
20 December 2011
09:10 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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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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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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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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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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The Mozilla Thunderbird team ran a survey last month to get a better understanding of the people that use the email client and what they'd want in the app or feel is missing.
The results of the survey, from 2,300 Thunderbird users, are in and the team is revealing some of the more interesting facts.
For exampl... |
1 December 2011
10:05 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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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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One of the problems, and there were quite a few, of Mozilla switching to a rapid release cycle of only six weeks is that users are bothered with updates a lot more often than they were used to.No one enjoys maintenance work, even if it only means restarting the browser and then waiting for the update to install. This... |
24 November 2011
14:01 GMT |
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SeaMonkey 2.5 has been released. Users that like their browser brimming with features plus the kitchen sink should rejoice. Based on the relatively recent Firefox 8, which has already been updated to Firefox 8.0.1, SeaMonkey 2.5 doesn't really bring anything new in terms of specific features. The big new things... |
22 November 2011
12:11 GMT |
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Mozilla has released its first bug-fixing update to the latest Firefox 8. The new Firefox 8.0.1 fixes two main bugs and possibly some more minor issues. A pre-release build Firefox 8.0.1 had previously been pushed to the Mozilla FTP servers.
It was later pulled, probably because it failed Mozilla's quality assu... |
22 November 2011
07:43 GMT |
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For a few months now, Mozilla has been working on creating an alternative to the Googles and Facebooks of the world, at least as far as providing identity and login information to third-party sites is concerned.
BrowserID is an identity technology that is designed to make it easy for users to sign up and log into an... |
18 November 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Not so long ago, Mozilla realized that it needs to cater to developers more, especially since it's such a community friendly company. So it started building some developer tools inside Firefox.None have been as gorgeous as the new Web Inspector in Firefox 10 Aurora. The tool, as the name would suggest, enables y... |
17 November 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Many expected this build a lot sooner, considering that the stable version of Mozilla’s email client rolled out a little over a week ago. The new build introduces some new features but its changelist also shows a plethora of bug fixes. Feature-wise, Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0 Beta sports an opt-in system for user... |
17 November 2011
07:23 GMT |
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Mozilla recently released Firefox 8 to its hundreds of millions of users, meaning that Firefox 9 and Firefox 10 got a bump as well, landing in the Beta and Aurora channels respectively.Each has its own set of interesting features, not that many since a new Firefox is coming out every six weeks.But fans will always wa... |
16 November 2011
17:01 GMT |
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A couple of years ago, Mozilla announced an ambitious initiative, dubbed Electrolysis, to re-engineer Firefox to add native support for multiple processes. This meant that the UI ran in a different process than all the tabs, add-ons and so on.There are many benefits to this, better responsiveness, more crash protecti... |
16 November 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Internet and tech companies in general have been quite worried about a couple of proposed laws that are going through the legislative process in the US right now. PROTECT IP and SOPA as the two bills are dubbed would give copyright owners huge powers over any website with almost no limits on how they can wield it.
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16 November 2011
08:34 GMT |
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Mozilla has been working on simplifying the update process for Firefox, especially now that new Firefox versions come out every six weeks. Silent updates is a big project and there are several things Mozilla developers are working on, but one of them is now ready for testing, background updates.
Normally, when runni... |
16 November 2011
05:20 GMT |
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Earlier in the year, Mozilla made quite a lot of waves with the introduction of the 'Do Not Track' option in the header that Firefox sends out to websites. The idea is to make it possible for users to alert websites that they do not want their browsing to be tracked and stored to be part of a ad targeting c... |
15 November 2011
10:01 GMT |
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The official list for the latest Firefox Aurora is out. Pinned at the top is the entry informing that the “forward” button is not present at all times on Windows. It is hidden until you need it, that is until you hit the “back” button.New features listed in the new version include implementati... |
12 November 2011
04:55 GMT |
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Several days after Firefox 8 landed in the stable channel, beta users are finally getting Firefox 9, which has graduated from the Aurora channel. There aren't any surprises with Firefox 9 Beta, everything that was expected is there.The big new feature in Firefox 9 is type inference for JavaScript. That may not m... |
11 November 2011
05:42 GMT |
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With Firefox 8 now available to everyone in the stable channel, all of the other Firefox versions are graduating as well. Firefox 9 is moving from Aurora to the Beta channel, Firefox 10 is moving from the Nightly channel to Aurora.For the users who want the cutting edge, Firefox 10 should be the interesting release. ... |
10 November 2011
15:31 GMT |
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If you're still using a desktop email client, chances are you're using Mozilla Thunderbird. While it does not enjoy the popularity or the notoriety of Firefox, the email client has been serving millions of users for many years now.One thing that's been missing all this time though is a calendar or a ta... |
10 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Along with Firefox 8, as expected, Thunderbird 8 has landed as well. Of course, again, as expected, there aren't that many new features, just some minor improvements. What is interesting about the new release though is that Mozilla is now plugging the Lightning 1.0 calendar add-on along with the official Thunder... |
9 November 2011
07:20 GMT |
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Firefox 8 is being officially launched, which means Firefox 9 in the beta channel and Firefox 10 in Aurora won't be that far behind. We've already covered the big new features in Firefox 8, now here's a look at some of the features that are already in Firefox 9 or are in the works.Firefox 9 has spent s... |
8 November 2011
12:21 GMT |
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A while ago, Mozilla presented quite an ambitious project, Boot to Gecko (B2G) a complete operating system built around Gecko, the rendering engine in Firefox.It's a similar idea to what Google is doing with Chrome OS, strip out everything but what's essential for web browsing. However, Mozilla has a differ... |
7 November 2011
16:22 GMT |
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Mozilla has been hard at work during the past several months with the building of a mobile OS, and it seems that the things are getting closer to becoming solid reality, as the company aims at having the platform loaded on devices during the first quarter of the ongoing year.
We already had the chance to have a lo... |
7 November 2011
09:58 GMT |
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Mozilla is introducing Popcorn, a HTML5 media toolkit that enables creators to make the most of the web when presenting their films online or to create entire interactive experiences around video.Popcorn is one of Mozilla's many projects designed to make use of the technologies that the modern web provides and t... |
7 November 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Firefox 8 is coming, appropriately, on November 8, just a few days from now. Since a new one comes out every six weeks, there aren't any ground-breaking features, but there's still plenty of new things in there so you're bound to enjoy at least some new features. So, just as Mozilla is getting ready t... |
5 November 2011
12:21 GMT |
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