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News LiMo announced a raft of new members, the most significant being the Mozilla Foundation, which is currently developing a mobile version of its popular Firefox browser. He said: "For Mozilla, joining LiMo represents an opportunity to establish a...
[15 May 2008]
News Web browser Mozilla Firefox was also found to have contained more vulnerabilities than Internet Explorer in the report. For the first time, the amount of malicious software being released has outstripped that of legitimate software, according to...
[09 Apr 2008]
Comment A prime example of this is Google's support for the development of the Firefox browser. The existence of Firefox has been a significant factor in encouraging browser conformance to web standards. The reality is sadly very different, says Martin...
[03 Apr 2008]
News In contrast, Mozilla's Firefox 2.0 virtually replaced Firefox 1.5 the same period after its release. The proportion of users on Firefox actually doubled during 2007, with 18 per cent using it at the end of the year.
[02 Apr 2008]
News It has open source development tools, including its Flex development framework, and contributed a scripting engine to the Mozilla Foundation for inclusion in the Firefox web browser. Adobe has released an alpha version of AIR on Linux and announced...
[01 Apr 2008]
News In a recent blog post, the head of the foundation behind the Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client attacked Apple for including the option to install the browser as a pre-selected default, saying it compromises the security of all users...
[25 Mar 2008]
News Google has unveiled a browser version of its Google Sky application for people who don't want to download the Google Earth software. The browser version allows users to zoom in and out and pan around the celestial bodies, search for planets and...
[14 Mar 2008]
News The fourth beta of the Firefox 3.0 browser was released Monday and includes more than 900 enhancements over the previous beta, Mozilla announced. The current beta of Firefox 3.0, which is expected to get its final release later this year, is...
[11 Mar 2008]
News With Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari out there, we really don't need another web browser these days," said Keith Smith, director of product management for Microsoft's developer tools division.What we need to do is to focus on the 'scenario...
[09 Mar 2008]
News The code became the basis of the Mozilla Suite, which comprises the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email application. Insufficient security validation of input file names in the Firefox header lets an attacker order the browser to access...
[25 Jan 2008]
News The Netscape web browser has long since been eclipsed by its Firefox offshoot but AOL has announced it's formally pulling the plug on its historic software. Support for the Netscape Navigator browser will continue to the 1 February 2008, he said...
[02 Jan 2008]
News The applications are available either on the Windows Vista OS or using a Firefox web browser. On Firefox the information is shown in a sidebar which the user can expand to include as many of the available options as they want.
[22 Nov 2007]
News A few months later than planned, Mozilla has released the first beta version of an overhauled Firefox, the widely used open source web browser. Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer remains the dominant web browser, the open source rival has...
[21 Nov 2007]
whitepaper Lest the user forgets that there are actually some rather nice alternatives out there, the paper presents one of the favorite contenders: a little something called Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox).
[25 Oct 2007]
whitepaper In the case of QuickTime video (such as movie trailers), once Linux was able to play them, one still couldn't watch them in a browser: instead one had to put on the detective hat and often dig around in the web page source for the URL one needed...
[24 Oct 2007]
AS Profile Ross is one of the people behind the Mozilla Firefox browser. At the tender age of 22, Blake Ross makes his debut in the rankings because of his potential to become one of the heavyweight Agenda Setters of the future.
[12 Oct 2007]
AS Analysis Both Stallman and Torvalds are long-term open source innovators but it isn't just an old boy's game this year, with 22-year-old Blake Ross - one of the people behind the Mozilla Firefox browser - making the list at number 49.
[12 Oct 2007]
whitepaper Firefox is more secure than IE out of the box, Firefox implements security features more intelligently than IE, and Firefox fixes security issues faster than IE. Firefox is no different. Every web browser warns users if they are entering or leaving...
[10 Oct 2007]
whitepaper Take a look at the upper-right corner of the Firefox browser. The user will see a nifty search box called the Search Bar that lets the user search Google by typing in a search term. Better yet, the user doesn't have to settle for searching just...
[10 Oct 2007]
whitepaper Support for CSS in contemporary browsers such as Firefox is very good, but there are still inconsistencies between different browsers, at least until the whole world wakes up to how good Firefox is. Firefox's extensible design has encouraged the...
[10 Oct 2007]
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