Posted January 26, 2011, 6:23 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web
Mozilla released the tenth beta version of Firefox 4 Tuesday night. The latest build comes less than two weeks after Firefox 4 Beta 9 hit the web and apparently we could see as many as two more beta releases before…
Posted January 21, 2011, 10:28 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in SoftwareBreaking News
The Mozilla team has decided to block the Skype Toolbar due to serious stability and performance issues. Up to and including the current shipping and beta versions of the Skype Toolbar will be added to the Mozilla Firefox Blocklist for…
Posted January 14, 2011, 3:31 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta 9. The new beta build comes less than a month after the Beta 8 release, and includes faster start-up time, bookmarking, and smoother complex animations.
Posted January 12, 2011, 1:01 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Damon Sicore, Senior Director of Platform Engineering at Mozilla, has announced that the company is almost ready to ship Firefox 4. On its mailing list, Mozilla has revealed it has around 160 hard blockers to fix, before proceeding to Release…
Posted December 28, 2010, 10:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web
Mozilla is working on a simple a straightforward set of icons that websites can use to make their often complicated privacy policies more transparent to users. The idea is to have a visual representation of how your personal data is…
Posted December 21, 2010, 12:41 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta 8. The new beta build was originally intended as a quick update for the feature-complete Beta 7 release, but it turns out it's pretty significant as it includes 1415 bugfixes, an improved add-ons manager,…
Posted December 10, 2010, 4:45 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Mozilla has released the latest stable version of Firefox, now at version 3.6.13. The latest version fixes various security bugs, 11 advisories to be exact, and stability issues, 68 bug fixes in all.
Posted December 6, 2010, 1:31 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Mozilla has launched a new marketing campaign to promote Firefox: adopting red pandas and putting them on live webcams. The company wants to underline the fact that the red panda is the mascot for its open source browser via a…
Posted November 30, 2010, 12:34 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Software
Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, has called out Microsoft, Apple, and Google for installing browser plug-ins in Firefox. The Mozilla executive is annoyed with the practice and calls it evil, since the user is not asked to give…
Posted November 11, 2010, 6:50 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, The Web
Mozilla has announced the release of a new beta build for the long-time coming Firefox 4. Unlike the last couple beta releases which mostly just tweaked a few things here and there, this one actually brings along a couple of…
Posted October 28, 2010, 10:18 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Software
Firefox is slipping in its development schedule; Mozilla says it won't be able to release version 4.0 this year, and will have to delay the final version until early next year. "Completing this work is taking longer than initial estimates…
Posted October 23, 2010, 1:55 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Software
Mozilla pays a bounty to security researchers who disclose vulnerabilities they find in an appropriate manner. The latest security researcher to get paid is none other than Alex Miller, a 12-year-old boy. Miller found and reported a critical buffer overflow…
Posted September 30, 2010, 10:46 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Mobile Computing
Mozilla has unveiled its plans for the iPhone platform. These include focusing on Firefox Home (an app that provides access to Firefox bookmarks, tabs, and history but no actual browser experience), without letting Firefox Home evolve into something that users…
Posted July 21, 2010, 9:00 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Software, The Web
In a move that's sure to attract bored hackers and unemployed software professionals, Google has substantially raised the maximum reward given to people who find security flaws in the Chromium web browser. The increase comes only days after Mozilla refreshed…
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