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Mozilla releases Firefox 21 for PC, Mac, Linux and Android

Mozilla releases Firefox 21 for PC, Mac, Linux and Android
  • Posted May 15, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software
  • Mozilla recently launched version 21 of Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux. The updated browser brings a number of new features including support for Mozilla’s Social API which allows social providers to integrate directly with the browser and display select…

Mozilla demands firm halt spyware masquerading as Firefox

Mozilla demands firm halt spyware masquerading as Firefox
  • Posted May 1, 2013, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software
  • Gamma International, a British security firm with ostensibly few scruples, has been accused of developing surveillance software which intentionally masquerades as Firefox. The program's unauthorized similarities to Mozilla's well-known browser prompted the organization to issue a cease-and-desist notice in an…

Opera lawsuit says former employee took trade secrets to Mozilla

Opera lawsuit says former employee took trade secrets to Mozilla
  • Posted April 29, 2013, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Browser maker Opera has filed a lawsuit against a former employee, alleging he shared trade secrets with rival Mozilla. Designer and musician Trond Werner Hansen is on the hook for 20 million Norwegian Krone, or about $3.4 million in damages…

Two Firefox OS developer phones hit the market

Two Firefox OS developer phones hit the market
  • Posted April 23, 2013, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware, Software
  • The first mobile phones running Mozilla’s Firefox OS are shipping today from a small Spanish company called Geekphone. The two budget handsets, the Keon and the Peak, are geared for developers that want to create apps for the new open-source…

Firefox Mobile OS will launch in five countries this summer

Firefox Mobile OS will launch in five countries this summer
  • Posted April 16, 2013, 7:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software, Industry News
  • Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs noted during the All Things D conference on Monday that Firefox OS will launch in five countries starting this summer. The mobile operating system, designed for budget handsets, will show up first in Brazil, Poland, Portugal,…

Browser war brewing: Google ditches Webkit for Blink, Mozilla partners with Samsung on Servo

Browser war brewing: Google ditches Webkit for Blink, Mozilla partners with Samsung on Servo
  • Posted April 4, 2013, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web Breaking News
  • It’s been roughly two months since Opera announced it was dropping its own Presto web rendering engine in favor of Webkit, the same used by Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. The move was seen as an attempt to remain relevant in…

Mozilla to bring Unreal Engine 3 to the web without plug-ins

Mozilla to bring Unreal Engine 3 to the web without plug-ins
  • Posted March 28, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web With Video
  • Epic has teamed up with Mozilla to bring Unreal Engine 3 to the web with Firefox, plug-in free. The announcement came during the Game Developers Conference where Mozilla showed Unreal Tournament and the Citadel demo running natively in the browser.

Mozilla releases Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 preview

Mozilla releases Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 preview
  • Posted March 14, 2013, 1:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Mobile Computing
  • Smartphones based on Firefox OS are slated to debut later this year in several emerging markets around the world. But if you’re itching to try it out early, Mozilla has been pushing out a simulator compatible with all major PC…

Weekend tech reading: No Firefox on iOS, Intel eyeing potential CEOs

Weekend tech reading: No Firefox on iOS, Intel eyeing potential CEOs
  • Posted March 10, 2013, 2:38 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Jay Sullivan, Mozilla’s VP of Product, has revealed that the not-for-profit organization is not going to build an iOS version of its Firefox web browser as long as Apple doesn’t mend its unfriendly ways towards third party browsers. Speaking at SXSW in a mobile browser...

Sony releases experimental Firefox OS ROM for Xperia E smartphone

Sony releases experimental Firefox OS ROM for Xperia E smartphone
  • Posted February 27, 2013, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing With Video
  • Sony was one of the first major companies to announce their support for Mozilla’s new Firefox OS just a couple of days ago but we had no idea they already had something in the works. Today the Japanese company released…

Firefox 22 will block third-party cookies by default

Firefox 22 will block third-party cookies by default
  • Posted February 26, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software
  • Mozilla will soon be taking a page from Apple’s book and implementing a feature in Firefox 22 that will allow the browser to block advertising cookies from third-parties by default. If you aren’t already aware, Cupertino’s Safari browser has shipped…

Firefox OS unveiled with 18 partners, heading to emerging markets

Firefox OS unveiled with 18 partners, heading to emerging markets
  • Posted February 25, 2013, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software
  • Mozilla will soon be joining the likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft with Firefox OS, the foundation’s first mobile operating system. The announcement came just ahead of Mobile World Congress where 18 operators from around the world have pledged support…

Weekend tech reading: Firefox OS backed by phone makers, carriers

Weekend tech reading: Firefox OS backed by phone makers, carriers
  • Posted February 24, 2013, 11:46 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in NATW
  • Laying the groundwork for its nascent Firefox OS, Mozilla has won over a sizeable list of allies including LG Electronics and China Unicom, and the first phones with the browser-based operating system should arrive in the second quarter of the year. Mozilla announced today...

Mozilla gives in, adds H.264 video support to Firefox Nightly builds

Mozilla gives in, adds H.264 video support to Firefox Nightly builds
  • Posted February 20, 2013, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • After years of throwing its weight behind Google's VP8 video codec (aka: WebM), Mozilla has officially slipped support for H.264 video into its Firefox Nightly builds -- but only for Windows 7 users. Although once a battle waged to fight…

Mozilla releases Firefox 19 stable with built-in PDF viewer

Mozilla releases Firefox 19 stable with built-in PDF viewer
  • Posted February 20, 2013, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web
  • Mozilla has published the latest stable release of Firefox 19 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The update is rather short on new features, but it does include a built-in PDF viewer that will eliminate the need for third-party plugins…

Meet Google OS: Chrome OS when it was based on Firefox

Meet Google OS: Chrome OS when it was based on Firefox
  • Posted February 14, 2013, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Software
  • Former Google engineer and web-based OS pioneer Jeff Nelson recently blogged about the possible origins of Chrome OS and recounts a number of fascinating historical anecdotes. Perhaps his most surprising detail though, is before there was Chrome OS -- or even Chrome,…

Firefox to block nearly all plug-ins by default with 'Click to Play'

Firefox to block nearly all plug-ins by default with
  • Posted January 31, 2013, 9:13 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web
  • Third-party plug-ins can be a real pain in the back for browser developers. Security holes constantly showing up in Java or Adobe Reader, for example, leave those running unpatched versions open to potential drive-by download attacks. Looking to minimize the…

Mozilla developers are working to bring Firefox to Ouya

Mozilla developers are working to bring Firefox to Ouya
  • Posted January 22, 2013, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software, Gaming
  • The Android-powered Ouya console has been making headlines for months as one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns to date. Early units are already finding new homes with game developers ahead of a planned launch in April but it’s what…

Firefox OS developer handsets revealed, Keon and Peak

Firefox OS developer handsets revealed, Keon and Peak
  • Posted January 22, 2013, 9:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
  • Mozilla has just taken the wraps off the first couple of devices designed to run Firefox OS. Developed in conjunction with Geekphone and Telefonica, the phones are not actually intended for the consumer market, but rather developers that want to…

Mozilla infographic highlights multiple achievements in 2012

Mozilla infographic highlights multiple achievements in 2012
  • Posted December 17, 2012, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
  • Mozilla is prepared to ring in the New Year by celebrating a number of achievements accomplished in 2012. And what better way to highlight those milestones in this day and age than with a well-designed infographic which is precisely what…

Mozilla integrates Facebook Messenger into latest Firefox browser

Mozilla integrates Facebook Messenger into latest Firefox browser
  • Posted December 4, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web With Video
  • If you’re the type that likes to distance yourself from social media, odds are you probably aren’t terribly fond of the fact that it’s being integrated directly into a growing number of seemingly unrelated products. The latest prominent piece of…

Firefox 18 beta adds JavaScript improvements, Retina Display support

Firefox 18 beta adds JavaScript improvements, Retina Display support
  • Posted November 27, 2012, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software
  • Mozilla has released a new beta version of Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux that adds a number of new features to the popular web browser. Firefox 18 beta includes, among other things, improvements to make JavaScript web apps and…

Mozilla releases Popcorn Maker 1.0, written entirely in web standards

Mozilla releases Popcorn Maker 1.0, written entirely in web standards
  • Posted November 13, 2012, 2:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web With Video
  • Mozilla released version 1.0 of Popcorn Maker during last weekend’s Mozilla Festival in London. The software is a timeline-based video editing application built using the organization’s JavaScript library Popcorn and written in modern web standards.

Mozilla says MS browser ballot glitch cost them 9M Firefox downloads

Mozilla says MS browser ballot glitch cost them 9M Firefox downloads
  • Posted November 2, 2012, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
  • Microsoft’s failure to follow through with a 2009 agreement with the European Commission to provide Windows users in that region with a browser choice ballot box in Windows 7 has been well documented. Up to this point, the commission has…

Mozilla looking to redesign browser bookmarking with Dropzilla

Mozilla looking to redesign browser bookmarking with Dropzilla
  • Posted October 31, 2012, 4:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software
  • Mozilla could be looking to reinvent bookmarking in Firefox as part of an ongoing effort to improve Firefox’s browsing experience. Mozilla’s Brian Groudan recently conducted a nine week research project at the request of the Firefox for Android team that…

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