open source microsoft's firefox
Mozilla: Eight million downloads for Firefox 3
News It's likely the majority of those who downloaded Firefox 3 at this stage will just use it to replace Firefox 2, not a competitor such as Microsoft's still-dominant Internet Explorer or Apple's third-place Safari. [19 Jun 2008]
LiMo targets the business mobile
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. However, the head of LiMo, Morgan Gillis, claimed the third quarter of this year... [15 May 2008]
Mozilla revamps Firefox 3 beta
News Firefox, which has been slowly chipping away at the lead held by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, recently announced that it had passed the 500 million download milestone. The fourth beta of the Firefox 3.0 browser was released Monday and includes... [11 Mar 2008]
Happy 10th birthday Mozilla - there's a bug in your cake
News Meanwhile, Mozilla's head of security, Window Snyder, has warned of a flaw in Firefox's user interface, called "chrome". Mozilla has assigned a "low" severity rating to the flaw, and the vulnerability is being investigated by Firefox developers. [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... [02 Jan 2008]
Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta
News Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer remains the dominant web browser, the open source rival has achieved a critical mass of users - Firefox has been downloaded more than 400 million times - and it's now common for designers to make sure their... [21 Nov 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]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.08.07
Round-Up Or perhaps it's the role it plays in being an effective foil to Firefox, the next big hope for web browsers. It still holds that position today, although it is facing steadily increasing competition from Firefox. [03 Aug 2007]
IE 'most influential tech product for 25 years'
News It still holds that position today, although it is facing steadily increasing competition from the open source browser Firefox, seen by many as a more stable and secure product. Earlier this year, CompTIA threw its weight behind Microsoft in... [01 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.04.07
Round-Up Pre-installed Linux (currently over 128,000 votes), Open Office pre-installed (over 92,000), FireFox installed as the default browser (over 68,000) and no operating system pre-loaded at all (over 61,000) are currently topping the wish list. [27 Apr 2007]
More flaws: Bugs hit Firefox, IE
News In addition, another Firefox flaw could let attackers change cookie files on the user's PC, he said. Firefox developers, co-ordinated by Mozilla, have already crafted a fix for this flaw, according to a bug entry on the organisation's website. [19 Feb 2007]
First release Firefox 2 up for grabs
News The Mozilla Foundation announced on Tuesday the availability of Release Candidate 1 of its Firefox 2 browser but warned that its free, open source browser might have a few leftover bugs and suggests only experienced users and developers download... [27 Sep 2006]
Firefox lover owns IE7.com
News Online users that key in www.ie7.com expecting to locate information on the upcoming Microsoft browser IE 7, will instead see a big logo of Firefox, the open source browser developed by Mozilla. The logo includes a link back to Mozilla's site, and... [04 Sep 2006]
Microsoft reaches out to Firefox lovers
News The head of Microsoft's open source business has offered help to get Firefox to work with the upcoming Vista operating system but it remains to be seen if Mozilla and the open source community will respond positively to the gesture. [22 Aug 2006]
Mozilla CEO: 'Why we're still shunned in the enterprise'
News Mozilla, maker of the open source Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client, says a reliance on proprietary technologies is still an obstacle for IT directors looking to deploy open source in the enterprise. [24 May 2006]
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