Friday, December 02, 2005

Mozilla Launches Firefox 1.5

Mozilla has released Firefox 1.5, the latest version of the popular open-source Web browser. Mozilla's Firefox browser 1.5 includes faster browsing, better caching and protection against pop-ups and the ability to organise tabbed browsing windows. The new browser also comes with an ...

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Yahoo Search Partners With Mozilla Firefox in Asia

Yahoo and Mozilla have announced an agreement which is sure to assist with the marketing of Mozilla Firefox in the Asian market.

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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Overhaul for Firefox web browser

The people behind Mozilla's Firefox browser are planning a big marketing push for the latest version of the open source webbrowser.

Firefox 1.5 is due to be available for download on 29 November, marking the end of a thriving year for the browser.



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Friday, November 18, 2005

A first look at the Flock social browser

One of the nice things about opensource software is that it gives developers the ability to reuse and re-purpose code. Take, for example, the Flock Web browser, recently released as a pre-beta developer preview based on the Firefox code base. Flock sports a layout similar to Firefox, with a navigation toolbar, bookmark toolbar, a search tabbed interface, and so forth.

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Microsoft Adds Firefox Support to WGA

the Firefox Web browser users may still be out of the luck when it comes to Windows Update, but they can now download files from Microsoft that require Windows Genuine Advantage validation thanks to a new plug-in . WGA checks to make sure the Windows license is legit and is now a requirement on the Microsoft Download Center.

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Saturday, November 05, 2005

Google Paying For AdSense Referrals

A new Google AdSense feature was announced today that allows website operators to place referral buttons on their sites for AdSense or Mozilla's Firefox browser browser with the Google Toolbar. Every referral wins cash for webmasters.

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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 test version out

A test version of an updated the Firefox Web browser browser is out, offering such features as automatic updates and improvements designed to speed browser navigation.the Firefox Web browser 1.5 Release Candidate 1, which came out earlier this week, is a preview of the upcoming version of the browser. The final release is expected later this year, following several delays.Microsoft is due to launch Internet Explorer version 7

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Firefox fanbase reaches new high

More than 10% of net users are going online with the the Firefox Web browser browser, show figures from analysis firm One Stat.

The global average of 11.5% is the highest percentage of users that the open-source browser has ever reached.

The research also reveals that Americans are the biggest fans of Firefox with 14.1% using it. In the UK 4.9% use it to get around online.



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Firefox popularity up

The popularity of Mozilla's Firefox browser is growing, closing in on Microsoft's dominance. According to web analysts One Stat, Mozilla's browsers now have a total global usage share of 11.51 percent, up almost 3 per cent since April 2005.

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Saturday, October 29, 2005

SEO Links Firefox Extension

Nick at Threadwatch is all giddy about a new Mozilla's Firefox browser extension for the SEO crowd put out by WebmasterBrain. The extension gives you the ranking of a site which a term is linked to and the amount of links indexed by Google, Yahoo or MSN pointing to ...

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Friday, October 28, 2005

Browsing for an attack

Online users now have to grapple with a growing number of security vulnerabilities found not only in Microsoft Internet Explorer, but also in other Web browsers including Opera and open-source Firefox. However, industry experts say surfing the Web can still be a secure activity.

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A New Way to Store and Share Bookmarks

By Doug Stanley Doug Stanley is a staff writer at The Tampa Tribune in Florida. the Firefox Web browser bookmarks and Internet Explorer favorites are notorious wallflowers, just hanging around the computer and never mingling with the outside world. It doesn't have to be that way.

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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Slashback: OpenDocuments, RFID Passports, Firefox Celebration

Slashback tonight brings updates and continuations of recent Slashdot stories including a continuation of the Massachusetts document format debate, a response from the US State Department on RFID passports, a unique celebration of Mozilla Firefox's 100 millionth download, and more.

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