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Cookies | Sigma Browser OÜ Friday announced the launch of its privacy-focused web browser, which features a local artificial intelligence model that doesn’t send data to the cloud.
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| Dec 19, 2025 | Firefox будет поставляться с функцией AI Kill Switch для отключения всех встроенных в браузер ИИ-сервисов | 16 декабря 2025 года новый генеральный директор Mozilla Corporation Энтони Энзор‑ДеМео заявил, что Firefox вырастет в более широкую экосистему доверенного программного обеспечения и превратится в современный браузер с искусственным интеллек... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | Call for Entries for Mozilla's Rise 25 Awards | SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mozilla, the nonprofit-backed tech company whose mission is to ensure the internet is a global public resource that is open and accessible to all, today announced their Rise 25 Awards final deadli... |
| Jun 27, 2019 | Mozilla launches GeckoView-powered Firefox Preview for Android, pauses Focus development | Mozilla today announced Firefox Preview, a pilot of its new Android browser. Firefox Preview, which is powered by Mozilla’s own GeckoView engine, will ultimately replace the current Firefox for Android mobile app “this fall.” At the same ti... |
| Jun 27, 2019 | Mozilla launches GeckoView-powered Firefox Preview for Android, pauses Focus development | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mozilla today announced Firefox Preview, a pilot of its new Android browser. Firefox Preview, which is powered by Mozilla’s own GeckoVi... |
| Sep 18, 2018 | Firefox Reality browser arrives for HTC Viveport, Oculus Go, and Daydream | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mozilla announced back in April that it was developing Firefox Reality, a next-generation web browser specifically for standalone VR an... |
| Apr 15, 2015 | As Mozilla Prepares Firefox Fightback, President Li Gong And Mobile VP Rick Fant Leave | Mozilla and its Firefox browser have been hurting badly in the stakes for browser market against Google Chrome, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari, and now the company is preparing a bigger restructuring with its president and... |
| Feb 24, 2015 | No, T-Mobile And Mozilla Are Not Launching A New ‘Privacy Phone’ [Updated] | Update: A Mozilla spokesperson has been in touch to say that the WSJ has misunderstood what Mozilla and DT are doing and they are not launching a phone, just working together. “It appears that there has been a misunderstanding and the refer... |
| Oct 17, 2012 | ScaleBase nabs $10.5M to scale up your sluggish database | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Oct 17, 2012 | Funding Daily: It's a small world after all | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Oct 17, 2012 | ScaleBase nabs $10.5M to scale up your sluggish database | ScaleBase is a Boston-based startup that provides uninterrupted database performance management to the likes of AutoDesk and Mozilla, and it’s raised $10.5 million in its second-round of funding.
ScaleBase sees an opportunity to monitor the... |
| Apr 8, 2012 | HTML5 roundup: Mozilla demos standards-based video chat in Firefox | reader comments 15 with 9 posters participating
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| Apr 3, 2012 | Mozilla moves to block Firefox from loading unpatched Java plugins | reader comments 28 with 25 posters participating
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Security vulnerabilities in the Java Development Kit and Java Runtime Environment that were patched in a February release p... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Anatomy of a leak: how iPhones spill the ID of networks they access | This screen capture of a Wireshark session initiated by hacker Rob Graham shows his iPad 3 exposing the MAC address of his home router. The unique identifier could be viewed by anyone connected to the Starbucks hotspot he accessed.
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| Mar 16, 2012 | Loose-lipped iPhones top the list of smartphones exploited by hacker | iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices transmit the MAC addresses of routers they've recently accessed. Hackers from security firm Immunity use the unique identifiers to glean information about the people they're paid to target,
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| Mar 16, 2012 | Thunderbird 11 arrives with tabs on top, IM coming in future version | Image courtesy of Mozilla reader comments 39 with 32 posters participating
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| Mar 14, 2012 | Firefox 11 released with Style Editor and 3D DOM viewer | FIrefox 11 on Mac OS X reader comments 120 with 66 posters participating
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| Feb 28, 2012 | Add-ons behaving badly: the challenges of policing the Firefox ecosystem | Firefox is frustrated with misbehaving add-ons
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| Feb 27, 2012 | Mozilla is about to shake up the smartphone industry | While smartphones are commonplace in the developed world, market penetration in developing countries remains poor. Mozilla aims to change that, and is leaning on two international wireless carriers to make that happen. Both Telefonica and D... |
| Feb 26, 2012 | Firefox developer Mozilla to open app store, opening for submissions next week | Mozilla, the not-for-profit developer of the Firefox web browser, has announced it is launching its own app store, and will open it for app submissions next week.
According to a Mozilla Foundation blog, the organisation intends to create an... |
| Feb 24, 2012 | LG reportedly building first Boot2Gecko phone as Mozilla preps app store | reader comments 45 with 33 posters participating, including story author
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Mozilla's Web-centric Boot2Gecko (B2G) mobile platform is maturing at a rapid pace. As we reported ... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Mozilla: Welcome Google and Obama, We Invented ‘Do Not Track’ A Year Ago | Mozilla took a moment this morning to remind everyone that it invented Do Not Track in February 2011, was the first to implement it with Firefox, and that 18 percent of mobile and 7 percent of desktop Firefox users currently have it activat... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Do Not Track: The CAN-SPAM of 2012 | Remember in 2003, when the CAN SPAM Act was signed into law, how spam just stopped overnight? Yeah, me neither. Just as CAN SPAM did little to curb spam, having Google and Microsoft sign on to Do Not Track (DNT) still leaves a lot to be des... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Mozilla partners up with LG to combat Apple and Google with its own device | At Mobile World Congress, which begins in three days, Mozilla will finally take the wraps off the Mozilla Marketplace and allow developers to submit their open web technology (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS) apps. While the Marketplace will play an... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Mozilla’s Anti-SOPA Message Reached 40 Million People | By blacking out the default Firefox start page and using social media, Mozilla reached 40 million people with its anti-SOPA/PIPA message. According to a stats wrap-up just posted to the Mozilla blog, 30 million people in the US saw the star... |
| Jan 15, 2012 | Introducing Esprima: Blazing-Fast Javascript Parser | Original article was posted on ‘Don’t Code Today’:
In a nutshell, Esprima (esprima.org) is a JavaScript parser written in pure JavaScript. In the near future, it will expand itself to something even more cooler, but as of now it’s just a pa... |
| Dec 20, 2011 | Mozilla And Google Extend Default-Search Agreement For Another Three Years | The browser wars continue to simmer, and Firefox, once the tech world’s champion against the insipid tyranny of Internet Explorer 6, has been losing ground to Chrome. In fact, just a few weeks ago, one report put Chrome in front of Firefox ... |
| Dec 20, 2011 | Firefox, Google uncertainty ends with three-year extension of search deal | reader comments 30 with 22 posters participating, including story author
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In a deal that ends concerns that Mozilla would lose its primary source of revenue, Mozilla and Goo... |
| Nov 16, 2011 | Now a Soap Opera, Heavily-Backed SOPA Copyright Bill Gets New Bipartisan and Popular Opposition | The “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) had looked set for a quick and quiet passing through the House after it was introduced late last month. A string of Democrats and Republicans, and various big-media affiliated interest groups had lined up... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | Firefox 8 gets official, adds handy Twitter search function | Mozilla has released the newest version of its popular Firefox browser today, Firefox 8, adding in a useful Twitter-search ability and disabling add-ons by default to boost performance.
Firefox users have seen quick updates of their browser... |
| Nov 7, 2011 | Firefox 8 released, finally fixes frivolous add-ons and tubby tabs | Updated: The latest iteration of everyone’s favorite furry is now available to download. As with the other rapidly-released iterations, Firefox 8 is mostly just a faster, cleaner version of the previous version — except for a couple of cool... |
| Oct 26, 2011 | Microsoft + Mozilla = New Firefox, With Bing | Microsoft’s search engine Bing today announced something it probably should have made available a long time ago: a new version of Firefox with Bing as the default search option in the search box and the Awesome Bar. Of course the download i... |
| Sep 28, 2011 | Firefox 7 arrives with reduced memory footprint | reader comments 130 with 83 posters participating
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Mozilla has released a new version of the open source Firefox Web browser. The update brings a much slimmer memory footpri... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Firefox 7 released: faster, uses less memory, but only a taste of things to come | Mozilla has just pushed the big red button and unfurled Firefox 7, the fourth major release this year. Firefox 5 was all about fixing a massive accumulation of bugs, Firefox 6 brought the browser up to HTML5 and CSS3 parity with Chrome and ... |
| Sep 27, 2011 | Go ahead, open more tabs; Firefox 7 runs even faster | Mozilla released Firefox 7 today, and the new version of makes web browsing faster than ever.
The update is especially helpful for the hardcore web junkies among us who browse with scores of open tabs and browsing sessions that span multipl... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | How’s Mozilla Doing with Do Not Track? Not So Good | Yesterday the Mozilla folks released numbers and a “field guide” with sample code, tutorials and additional resources on Do Not Track (DNT). How’s DNT doing so far?
According to a post by Anurag Phadke a bit less than 5% of Mozilla users ha... |
| Sep 8, 2011 | Mozilla issues ultimatum to Internet certificate authorities | Mozilla has decided that once broken trust isn't easily restored. Today, the open-source developer of Firefox issued an ultimatum to certificate authorities, in wake of the spreading damage caused by the DigiNor hack. Certificates like thos... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | Ataque à DigiNotar pode (e deve) causar mudanças na segurança da web | Na semana passada um usuário da internet no Irã chamado Ali Borhani recebeu um aviso do Chrome ao tentar logar no Google dizendo que o certificado de segurança era inválido. O certificado foi emitido em nome do Google, mas era menos do que ... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | Comodo hacker: I hacked DigiNotar too; other CAs breached | Photograph by Augie Schwer reader comments 35 with 32 posters participating
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| Aug 30, 2011 | Another fraudulent certificate raises the same old questions about certificate authorities | reader comments 42 with 34 posters participating
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Earlier this year, an Iranian hacker broke into servers belonging to a reseller for certificate authority Comodo and issued... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | Did you miss these 26 software downloads last week? Get them now | It was such a busy week -- what with Google planning to buy Motorola Mobility and HP killing TouchPad -- you could easily have overlooked a momentous number of new software releases. As the new week begins, we look back on what you might ha... |
| Aug 19, 2011 | Which Firefox is right for you -- 6, 7, 8 or 9? | The browser market moves at a hectic pace these days, and so while a month ago most people were happily using Firefox 5, Mozilla has released Firefox 6, Firefox 7 beta, Firefox 8 Aurora, and even Firefox 9 via the Nightly channel.
Perhaps u... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Finally, Firefox for Android is stable and primed for tablets | Along with Firefox 6 for PCs, today, Mozilla also released the mobile version, which I must say looks damn good. But it feels even better. There's a solidness about the browser that makes it ready, finally, for prime time. Firefox fans, thi... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | Google+ represents a big chance for diversification in games | Google+ games, announced by Google today on its Google+ social network, represent a big chance for social games companies to diversify and reduce their dependence on Facebook. That’s why Google already has an impressive list of game compani... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | Google+ represents a big chance for diversification in games | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google+ games, announced by Google today on its G... |
| Jul 19, 2011 | Mozilla re-establishes Enterprise Working Group | Perhaps stung by the reaction to recent statements and actions, Mozilla has announced that they are taking the old Mozilla Enterprise Working Group out of virtual mothballs.
The MEWG is a forum where Mozilla developers can interact with Ent... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5, matches Chrome 14 | Firefox 8, which only just appeared on the Nightly channel, is already 20% faster than Firefox 5 in almost every metric: start up, session restore, first paint, JavaScript execution, and even 2D canvas and 3D WebGL rendering. The memory foo... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Firefox 7 pre-release with reduced memory footprint lands in Aurora channel | reader comments 161 with 86 posters participating
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Mozilla recently transitioned to shorter development cycles for Firefox, with the aim of issuing a new release every six w... |
| Jul 3, 2011 | Google’s Six-Front War | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on twitter @semilshah.
While the tech world is buzzing about... |
| Jun 30, 2011 | Not much in new Thunderbird 5, but roadmap looks promising | reader comments 77 with 51 posters participating
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Mozilla has released version 5 of Thunderbird, the popular open source e-mail client. The update includes some new features... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Mozilla to start thinking about enterprise needs | Firefox is an [in]famously difficult product for IT to deploy and manage in large organizations. They may be dragged kicking and screaming into it, but Mozilla will now begin to at least consider the needs of enterprises.
The first version ... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | 85 Percent Of Firefox Users Have Installed Add-ons (Oh, And Firefox 5 Is Ready, Too) | I think we all know that add-ons have grown integral to the Firefox experience — and popular, to say the least — but we didn’t know just how popular until now. Today, Mozilla said through its blog that 85 percent of Firefox 4 users have ins... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | 85% of Firefox users use add-ons; Chrome users, just 33% | At long last, Mozilla has managed to calculate how many Firefox users have at least one add-on installed: 85%. It gets better, though: the average Firefox user has no less than 5 add-ons installed — but considering over 2.5 billion add-ons ... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Mozilla kills security updates for Firefox 4 | When Mozilla launched Firefox 5 yesterday, there were no mentions of security updates for Firefox 4. And for good reason: Mozilla is treating Firefox 5 as 4’s final security update.
Now that Mozilla has put itself on a rapid release develop... |
| Jun 22, 2011 | Firefox 5 released, arrives only three months after Firefox 4 | reader comments 166 with 108 posters participating
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Mozilla has launched Firefox 5, a new version of the popular open source Web browser. This is the first update that Mozil... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Firefox 5 launches only months after last version | Mozilla’s new rapid release cycle for Firefox is moving along in full force. The non-profit announced the release of Firefox 5 today a mere three months after the release of Firefox 4.
Mozilla touts over 1,000 improvements in the new browse... |
| Jun 21, 2011 | Still blazing ahead: Mozilla releases Firefox 5 | Just three months after the release of Firefox 4, Mozilla issues major update
True to its word, Mozilla is wasting no time releasing new iterations of its popular Firefox browser.
The global, nonprofit organization announced Tuesday that it... |
| Jun 20, 2011 | Firefox 5 arrives early -- get it now! | It's not officially released until tomorrow, but if you'd like to have an early look at Firefox 5 then the final build is actually available now, and while the "new features" list is a little on the short side, the browser include... |
| Jun 8, 2011 | New Apps for iPhone & Android, May/June 2011 | In this continuing series here on ReadWriteWeb, we round up some of our favorite new applications for smartphones each month, specifically for iPhone and Android devices. This spring edition includes some major new launches on Android, like... |
| Jun 1, 2011 | Twitter Announces Better Search, Photo Sharing | Twitter has just announced some photo news, as rumors circulating over the Memorial Day holiday weekend hinted it would. The big reveal isn’t exactly a new photo-sharing or photo-storage service – Twitter will not be hosting the photos you ... |
| May 26, 2011 | Firefox, YouTube and Nvidia Team Up to Bring 3D Video to the Web | First, 3D came to the movie theater. Then companies like Samsung started to make 3D televisions to bring the experience home. Tablets and phones like the Motorola Xoom and some Android devices from LG took 3D mobile.
Now, YouTube, Firefox a... |
| May 24, 2011 | Firefox 5 beta arrives for desktop and Android | Enlarge reader comments 71 with 44 posters participating
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| May 23, 2011 | Got Android? Get Firefox 5 beta, but don't expect Flash | The final version of Firefox 4 hardly seems to be been available for all that long and hot on its heels is the beta version of Firefox 5. As well as being made available for desktop platform, Mozilla released Firefox 5 for Android beta. Whi... |
| May 20, 2011 | Firefox Updates Mobile Browser For Android With 'Do Not Track' Privacy Feature | Firefox beta for Android has been updated today with the ability for users to turn on the “Do Not Track” privacy feature, making it one of the first mobile browsers to offer the privacy option.
Mozilla’s Do Not Track allows users to have mo... |
| May 17, 2011 | Understanding Firefox’s New Release Channels | Today marks the arrival of the first official Firefox 5 beta channel release, completing Mozilla’s new Chrome-like channel line-up. All three main variations — Beta, Aurora, and Release — are now listed on the Future of Firefox page, ready ... |
| May 5, 2011 | Mozilla Takes a Stand Against Department of Homeland Security | Sometimes you have to take a stand, even if that means standing against the United States Department of Homeland Security. That is what Mozilla is doing concerning the MafiaaFire extension to Firefox.
MafiaaFire redirects traffic from seize... |
| Apr 22, 2011 | Firefox 4 Hits 100 Million Downloads After A Month | Mozilla released its new Firefox 4 exactly a month ago today and within a day it had more than twice as many downloads as Internet Explorer 9 after its launch. Some where around midnight tonight the browser build will hit 100 million downlo... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | Ride the Firefox development wave with Aurora pre-release builds | reader comments 31 with 21 posters participating
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Mozilla has announced the launch of Aurora, a new Firefox release channel that is intended to open up experimental Firefox ... |
| Apr 13, 2011 | Mozilla Introduces Aurora, The Pre-Beta, Post-Nightly Firefox — It's Their "Dev" Build | While Google Chrome may still only have about 10 percent market share in the web browser world, it’s effect on the space has been much greater. For example, remember when Google said that Chrome would begin releasing new versions every six ... |
| Apr 4, 2011 | Firefox Slow? Check Your Add-Ons, Says Mozilla | A common complaint about Firefox is that it’s just too slow, particularly upon launching. And after touting the speed and enhanced performance in the browser’s most recent release, Mozilla wants to make it clear to users: if Firefox is slow... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Firefox 4 on Android will make iPhone users jealous | Mozilla’s latest mobile browser, Firefox 4, officially launches today after months of testing.
The browser brings features like Firefox Sync — which synchronizes tabs, personal data, and settings from Firefox 4 on any other platform — and a... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Mobile Firefox Skips Flash In Favor Of HTML5 | A week after launching the official release of Firefox 4, Mozilla is following up today with Mobile Firefox for Android and Maemo phones (for all twelve of you Maemo fans out there). For Android, the browser is now available on the Android ... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | Firefox 4 leads IE9 in downloads and usage | reader comments 154 with 90 posters participating
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Firefox 4, which launched last week, has attracted considerable interest among technology enthusiasts. The browser was dow... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | JavaScript Creator And Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich To Advise Ajax.org | Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript scripting language and chief technology officer at Mozilla, has joined the advisory board of Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based Ajax.org.
We recently wrote about Ajax.org’s introduction of Cloud9 IDE, a... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | Firefox 4 usage share is twice Internet Explorer 9 in half the time | In the early battle for users, Firefox 4 handedly beats Internet Explorer 9, according to NetApplications. As of March 26, IE 9 usage share was 1.78 percent (in 12 days), according to NetApplications. By comparison, Firefox 4 had 3.64 perce... |
| Mar 27, 2011 | Is Firefox doomed? | Ed Bott's March 22nd ZDNET post "Why Internet Explorer will survive and Firefox won't" answers the question yes. "So long, Firefox. It was nice to know you," he writes about the browser's future. Well, I don't agree with... |
| Mar 25, 2011 | Microsoft: Windows Live ID Users at Risk from Fraudulent Certificates | News Microsoft: Windows Live ID Users at Risk from Fraudulent Certificates By Chris PaoliMarch 25, 2011
Microsoft issued a warning on Wednesday about nine fraudulent digital certificates that could potentially be abused by hackers.
The unau... |
| Mar 25, 2011 | Microsoft: Windows Live ID Users at Risk from Fraudulent Certificates | News Microsoft: Windows Live ID Users at Risk from Fraudulent Certificates By Chris PaoliMarch 25, 2011
Microsoft issued a warning on Wednesday about nine fraudulent digital certificates that could potentially be abused by hackers.
The unau... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | Firefox 4 blows away Internet Explorer 9 with first day downloads | As if you needed a reminder that the next browser wars have begun, Mozilla’s Firefox 4 browser managed to double Internet Explorer 9’s first day downloads in less than 24 hours, CNet reports.
CNet noted that Firefox 4 had 4.7 million downlo... |
| Mar 23, 2011 | StatCounter: Firefox 4 Has Already Eclipsed Internet Explorer 9 | Mozilla has just released Firefox 4, and in less than a day clocked more than twice the downloads Microsoft boasted about after the release of Internet Explorer 9.
Now website analytics company StatCounter says Mozilla’s new browser has alr... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Mozilla Firefox 4 finally exits beta | Aesthetic changes match Google Chrome, faster iterations to be seen going forward
Mozilla Firefox 4 has landed. This is not a beta, this is not a test. Firefox 4 has launched.
It's a relieving moment for Mozilla because its newest browser h... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Hacker Poll: What Do You Think of Firefox 4? | This morning, as Firefox 4 was officially released to the world, Mozilla Developer Evangelist Christian Heilmann tweeted “So IE9 was downloaded 2.3m times in a day – let’s see if that record gets broken today.” As I write this, Firefox 4 ha... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | Firefox 4 Is Certainly Zippy, But Is That Enough To Switch Back From Chrome? | If you’ve already downloaded the new Firefox 4 today, the first you probably noticed is how much zippier it is. I pretty much had stopped using Firefox altogether because of the creekiness of its previous versions compared to Chrome, Safari... |
| Mar 5, 2011 | First Piece of Mozilla's Web Apps Project Arrives, But Can it Outfox Chrome? | At great long last, Mozilla has revealed the first developer release of their Web Apps Project, which aims to build the infrastructure for an open web app ecosystem.
Back in May of 2010, Google announced plans for what would become the Chro... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Microsoft IE 9 Tracking Protection Up for W3C Review | News Microsoft IE 9 Tracking Protection Up for W3C Review By Kurt MackieFebruary 28, 2011
Microsoft's tracking protection approach, which is used in the Internet Explorer 9 release candidate, is up for review at the Worldwide Web Consortium... |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Microsoft IE 9 Tracking Protection Up for W3C Review | News Microsoft IE 9 Tracking Protection Up for W3C Review By Kurt MackieFebruary 28, 2011
Microsoft's tracking protection approach, which is used in the Internet Explorer 9 release candidate, is up for review at the Worldwide Web Consortium... |
| Feb 22, 2011 | One Browser Input To Rule Them All: Here Come The Chrome Omnibox Extensions | If Chrome’s best feature is its speed, it’s second best feature has to be the Omnibox. I’m still not sure why every browser doesn’t simply offer one box for both searching and typing in URLs. But the Omnibox is about to get even more powerf... |
| Feb 17, 2011 | Mozilla’s “modern browser” attack on IE overlooks Firefox shortcomings | reader comments 128 with 87 posters participating
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Microsoft and Mozilla traded barbs this week in a dispute over what constitutes a "modern" Web browser. The comp... |
| Feb 9, 2011 | How 3 Companies Are Using NoSQL Database Riak | Today Basho, the sponsor company of the NoSQL database Riak, announced another $7.5 million round of funding from Georgetown Partners and Trifork. We’ve never covered Riak here, so we thought today would be a good day to take a look at how ... |
| Feb 8, 2011 | Do Not Track arrives in Firefox beta, ad industry not on board yet | reader comments 55 with 42 posters participating
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Mozilla has rolled out an eleventh beta release of Firefox 4, the next major version of the browser. In addition to the usu... |
| Feb 7, 2011 | Alternatives to Internet Explorer | Last week’s announcement of a serious security flaw in Internet Explorer should be a warning to anybody using Microsoft’s web browser that they should move to an alternative program.
Internet Explorer, the web browser built into Windows, is... |
| Feb 3, 2011 | Firefox 4 pode sofrer novo atraso com 2 novos betas antes da final | Apesar da pressa em lançar o já atrasado Firefox 4 para os tubos da interwebs, a Mozilla se recusa a fazê-lo enquanto o navegador não passar nos requerimentos mínimos de qualidade da empresa. Um desses requerimentos é bem simples, ao menos ... |
| Feb 2, 2011 | New Android Firefox beta beats default browser in JS benchmark | reader comments 37 with 28 posters participating, including story author
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| Feb 1, 2011 | The Latest Firefox 4 Beta For Android Is Up To 3X Faster Than The Default Browser | In the never-ending Browser battle, speed is king. Browser A might be the prettiest, most secure one around — but if Browser B seems faster or more light weight, good ol’ Browser A is going to lose users in droves. This is especially true i... |
| Jan 21, 2011 | Mozilla To Block Skype's Browser Toolbar – Skype Responds, Recommends Upgrading | Yesterday evening, Mozilla announced that it would be blocking the Skype toolbar add-on in all versions of its Firefox browser.
While this concerns an impending ‘soft block’, meaning users will be able to re-enable the add-on if they choose... |
| Jan 15, 2011 | Firefox 4 release creeps ever closer as Mozilla rolls out beta 9 | Mozilla's Firefox 4 reached its ninth beta version on Friday, which promises a quicker startup time, quicker bookmarking, support for multiple JavaScript heaps also known as "compartments," support for the Indexed Database API, an... |
| Dec 28, 2010 | Best BigCo of 2010: Facebook | At the end of every year, ReadWriteWeb reviews the progress (or otherwise) of big Internet organizations and names one of them our ‘Best BigCo.’ We started this tradition in 2004, making this the 7th year. In 2009 it was Google, thanks to C... |
| Dec 24, 2010 | Mozilla improves sync setup and WebGL in Firefox 4 beta 8 | reader comments 43 with 32 posters participating
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Mozilla has announced the availability of Firefox 4 beta 8, a new pre-release milestone build of the open source Web browse... |
| Dec 22, 2010 | Firefox Mobile's Offline Hack: It Saves Web Pages As PDFs | Mozilla just released the latest version of Firefox 4 Beta for both the Web and mobile phones (Android and Maemo). The desktop version now supports the WebGL 3D graphics standard without the need for a plugin and syncing different browsers ... |