The software company Mozilla has today unveiled an alpha version of the next generation of its mobile browser Fennec for Android version 2.0 and the Nokia N900. Fennec is the mobile version of the Firefox browser that comes on many home computers. It is one of the few mobile browsers, the add-ons you install. According [...]
Aug
27
2010
27
2010
Jul
3
2010
3
2010
Firefox Home: Will Apple reject or approve? An analysis
Firefox Mobile is not yet available in final release, but Mozilla has found another way to land in the iPhone and iPod Touch as it submitted application Firefox Home to Apple’s online store. While the Mozilla Foundation denies it wants to develop a browser for an iPhone, it has just submitted the Home Firefox application [...]
Jul
2
2010
2
2010
Why IBM chooses Firefox Mozilla instead of IE? Here is the reason
IBM announced Thursday that the workstations of its 400,000 employees would henceforth adopt Firefox as default browser, instead of Internet Explorer. This decision is logical too, according to Big Blue, the open source model and independent of Firefox, standards compliance and its ability to function identically on heterogeneous environments, the machine that hosts both Windows, [...]
May
12
2010
12
2010
John Lilly CEO of Mozilla resigns from his position
The owner of Mozilla, John Lilly, confirmed in an internal email and a note posted on his blog: he will leave the Foundation in 2010 to join the investment fund Greylock Partners. John Lilly joined Mozilla in 2004 as director of operations. He then, in 2008, assumed the title of CEO of the Foundation. John [...]
May
11
2010
11
2010
Firefox 4: Fast, Powerful and functional
Less than a day ago, Mike Beltzner (Mike Beltzner), director of Firefox development team at Mozilla, wrote in his blog very interesting facts about the future of one of the most popular web browsers on the planet. It is, of course, about Firefox, but rather, on its fourth version. Earlier there were reports that Firefox [...]
May
4
2010
4
2010
Internet Explorer decline, Firefox stagnant and Chrome rises : NetApplications
The latest estimates from Net Applications, Internet Explorer now accounts for 59.95% of market share in the field of web browsers. Always a leader, the tool Microsoft continues to lose ground against competitors in better shape than ever. Internet Explorer decline, Firefox stagnant Chrome rises. According to the latest figures from NetApplications , the war [...]
Jan
22
2010
22
2010
Download Firefox 3.6 final version
The new version of web browser Firefox is available in version 3.6. The Mozilla Foundation has at last made available a final version of its Firefox browser version 3.6. A version that was made to wait as it went through five stages 3 beta and RC releases before the big day. Earlier the version was [...]
Dec
21
2009
21
2009
Firefox Surpassed IE 7 as Most Popular & Used Browser
Firefox Surpassed IE 7 as Most Popular & Used Browser – According to the Stat Counter, the open source Mozilla foundation Firefox browser will be celebrating the fact that it has overtook Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) as the world’s most popular and used browser for the first time. This year, Internet Explorer 7 had been [...]
Oct
18
2009
18
2009
Mozilla protects Firefox against Microsoft .Net plug-in
Mozilla has done its part of job to fight against a Microsoft’s installed plug-in that suffers from a serious security vulnerability. Microsoft installed the component earlier this year but later on they provided with users with methods to uninstall them. The add-on was placed by Microsoft as a sub component of .Net Framework Assistant software [...]
Aug
1
2009
1
2009
Firefox crossed 1 billion download threshold
At about 8 a.m. PDT Friday, Firefox crossed the billion-download threshold–a notably large number for Mozilla’s open-source Web browser but one that doesn’t tell the whole story. Measuring the first 30 days of July, Firefox holds an average of 30.5 percent of the global browser market, according to data from Web metrics firm StatCounter. Internet [...]