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Mozilla releases yet another Firefox 4 beta

Mozilla releases yet another Firefox 4 beta
  • 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…

Mozilla blocks Skype toolbar causing 40,000 Firefox crashes

  • Posted January 21, 2011, 10:28 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software Breaking 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…

Mozilla releases Firefox 4 Beta 9

  • 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.

Mozilla hopes to release Firefox 4 next month

  • 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…

Mozilla designer proposes website privacy icons

Mozilla designer proposes website privacy icons
  • 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…

Mozilla releases Firefox 4 Beta 8

Mozilla releases Firefox 4 Beta 8
  • 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,…

Mozilla patches 11 security flaws in Firefox

Mozilla patches 11 security flaws in Firefox
  • 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.

Mozilla launches Firefox Live to promote browser

Mozilla launches Firefox Live to promote browser
  • 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…

Mozilla: Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others are being evil

  • 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…

Mozilla releases seventh Firefox 4 Beta

Mozilla releases seventh Firefox 4 Beta
  • 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…

Mozilla delays Firefox 4 until 2011

Mozilla delays Firefox 4 until 2011
  • 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…

Mozilla pays 12-year-old $3,000 for finding critical Firefox flaw

Mozilla pays 12-year-old $3,000 for finding critical Firefox flaw
  • 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…

Mozilla: No Firefox browser for the iPhone

  • 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…

Google sees Mozilla's $3,000 and raises it $133.70

  • 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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