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Malicious software overtakes friendly apps

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...

Tags: software, malware

[09 Apr 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Open source 'brotherhood' closed to co-operation

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...

Tags: standards, development, open source

[03 Apr 2008]

Flash Lite 3 Web Browsability Support Guidelines for Web Developers

whitepaper As a result, the vast majority of websites online today focus on the viewing experience delivered on personal computer-based browsers, such as Internet Explorer and Firefox. Traditionally, the web has been designed for, optimized, and consumed by...

Tags: web development and design

[03 Apr 2008]

Windows Vista take-up crawls at snail's pace

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.

Tags: microsoft, xp, firefox, ie7

[02 Apr 2008]

Adobe gives Linux breath of fresh AIR

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...

Tags: adobe, air, mac, linux

[01 Apr 2008]

Mozilla chief slams Apple's Safari-iTunes move

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...

Tags: itunes, safari, apple, install

[25 Mar 2008]

Google Sky gets browser app

Google Sky gets browser app

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...

Tags: google, photos, earth, sky

[14 Mar 2008]

Mozilla revamps <strong>Firefox</strong> 3 beta

Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta

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...

Tags: mozilla, internet explorer, beta, firefox

[11 Mar 2008]

Microsoft unveils web tool betas

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...

Tags: microsoft, beta, silverlight, ie

[09 Mar 2008]

iPlayer: Download version coming to Macs

News He added users of Firefox for PCs can now also use the download version. The download version of the BBC's iPlayer will be available for Mac users by the end of the year, according to director general, Mark Thompson.

Tags: bbc, online, firefox, iplayer

[08 Feb 2008]

Happy 10th birthday Mozilla - there's a bug in your cake

News Mozilla has assigned a "low" severity rating to the flaw, and the vulnerability is being investigated by Firefox developers. The code became the basis of the Mozilla Suite, which comprises the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email application.

Tags: mozilla, birthday, firefox, suite

[25 Jan 2008]

AOL pulls plug on Netscape browser

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. Given AOL's current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in...

Tags: aol, netscape, windows, firefox

[02 Jan 2008]

Met Office launches web weather widgets

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.

Tags: weather, met office, microsoft, firefox

[22 Nov 2007]

Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta

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. Firefox 3 beta 1 includes a number of significant features Mozilla said should improve security, ease of...

Tags: firefox, beta, microsoft, mozilla

[21 Nov 2007]

Animating SAS/GRAPH Output - Telling a Story That Changes Over Time

whitepaper This paper shows how animated GIFS can be built from simple modifications to the SAS jobs that run every day and deployed using the built-in support for this file format in all the major HTML browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and so on).

Tags: graphics applications, sas, sas graph, space

[06 Nov 2007]

Mac OS X Panther Hacks: Browse Different

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).

Tags: web browsers, firefox, browser, apple

[25 Oct 2007]

Linux Multimedia Hacks: Watch Videos Within Firefox

whitepaper If one chats with a group of geeks for any extended period of time, the conversation inevitably steers into talks of the "Good old days" of computing, when geeks were geeks and one edited the files with a magnet and a magnifying glass.

Tags: streaming media, video, geeks, files

[24 Oct 2007]

Programming Firefox: Configuring for Chrome and a Server

whitepaper This paper moves the application from its home in a test directory to a setting that is more consistent with commercial implementations. It will create two key pieces for implementing the application: a local XUL application communicating with a...

Tags: web browsers, implementations, xul, directory

[17 Oct 2007]

Blake Ross

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]

Open season

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]

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