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There are several factors which influenced the company’s decision to improve their browser on Android. One of which is the role of smartphones and tablets in the transformation of the computing industry. Smartphones and tablets are the gadgets that are leading this revolutionary change and right now, Firefox is not preinstalled to any of these devices. Another factor is that Android is the only way for the company to penetrate the mobile market since they are not able to go through Apple’s iOS and Microsoft’s Windows Phone. Continue Reading “What to expect from the Firefox for Android reboot” »
This time, Mozilla isn’t going just against Microsoft. This time, Mozilla needs to compete with Google, Apple, Microsoft and most likely Facebook as well. Its products need to be compelling and powerful enough to make an open platform the more attractive alternative to Google’s and Apple’s walled gardens. Mozilla can’t consider its mission a war against the world, but it is a massive undertaking that will include confrontation and challenge Mozilla to the core. It will require Mozilla to make much more efficient use of its resources than Apple and Google do, as it cannot match any of their budgets. Mozilla will have to be driven by its ideals and its talent. If it returns to its roots, it has every chance to succeed and we consumers should understand that Mozilla’s balancing forced are important to keep the industry and consumer interests in an open web in a healthy balance.
First, the good news. Firefox 4 is fast. And, it includes some new features that are useful, like Sync, which will keep your history, passwords, and bookmarks synchronized across all your computers and even your smartphone.
In version 4, the Firefox developers made significant changes to the look of the browser. I suppose this is neither good nor bad, but just takes some getting used to. It’s a jolt, though. They’ve hidden the menu bar unless you dig around and turn it back on. They’ve put the tabs at the top of the window, and they’ve crammed all the menu items into one tiny button “for easier access.”
The new version provides a significant boost in running JavaScript and displaying graphics, Mozilla said. In addition, the add-on application programming interfaces for Firefox 4 are now stable, which means developers can start updating Firefox 3.6-compatible add-ons to support the upgrade.
Continue Reading “Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta – Faster? You bet!” »
In this regard, Firefox’s vast library of browser add-ons is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, the researchers found that some add-ons, such as those that enhance searching, may store information that’s supposed to be purged after a private browsing session.
Continue Reading “Eight essential privacy extensions for Firefox” »
Mozilla has officially decided that the next major version of Firefox will require at least Mac OS X 10.5 when running on Apple computers.
“We believe a Mac OS X 10.5 minimum will allow us to provide the best experience possible to our users,” Mozilla Mac programmer Josh Aas said Tuesday in a mailing list announcement. Firefox is built on a browser engine called Gecko, and the upcoming version 1.9.3 will have technology for Mac OS X 10.4 and before removed, he said.
Continue Reading “Upcoming version of Firefox to drop support for Mac OS X 10.4″ »
Firefox for the Maemo 5 platform has a few interesting conceits that set it apart from other mobile browsers, like Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Mozilla is banking on the uniqueness of its claim to fame–third-party, customizable browser extensions–to help its browser win mobile market share. Add-ons, after all, helped make Firefox the top browser alternative to Internet Explorer in the desktop space. To punctuate the importance of add-ons for Firefox’s mobile browser, Mozilla also pushed out on Friday the general release of its bookmark and history-syncing extension, Weave Sync 1.0, for both desktop and mobile.
When you grab the first public betas of the latest software, you may find a few new features that upset you — new ways of doing things, functionality that’s been changed or moved, and new default behaviors.
This is often true of browsers and especially true of Firefox.
Mozilla blocked the Framework Assistant last Friday. Earlier in the week, Microsoft warned that Firefox users were vulnerable to an attack because of a problem in the add-on if users had not applied the MS09-054 IE patch. Mozilla consulted Microsoft before implementing the block.
Still blocked is the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) add-on, but Mozilla is working on an alternative for users.
Continue Reading “Mozilla Unblocks Microsoft Add-On For Firefox” »
Mozilla has released 11 vulnerability disclosures for Firefox and SeaMonkey, covering a total of 16 vulnerabilities. Firefox 3.5.4, Firefox 3.0.15 and SeaMonkey 2.0 have been released to fix them.
6 of the reports, covering 11 of the vulnerabilities, are rated Critical. These include crashes with evidence of memory corruption, heap buffer overflows, and several updates of open source libraries with critical flaws. Three bugs are rated Moderate and 2 low.
Continue Reading “Firefox 3.5.4 Fixes Several Critical Vulnerabilities” »
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