Tag archive: Firefox

Firefox may be losing marketshare to Chrome, but the Mozilla Foundation has laid out an ambitious roadmap for 2012. It includes not only major new features and capabilities for its Firefox browser, but solutions for online identity management and a full-fledged marketplace for cross-platform Web apps to rival offerings from Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and others. However, while Mozilla is perhaps singlehandedly responsible for breaking… Read More

Mozilla has set loose Firefox 10, the latest version of its open-source Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. New features in the release are largely limited to technologies aimed at Web developers, but there's one important new feature that ought to appeal to anyone who has augmented their browser's functionality: by default, most add-ons will be compatible with new versions of Firefox by default, and users will have an… Read More

Announced within an official post on The Windows Blog, Microsoft seems elated to relay the news that usage of the Internet Explorer 6 Web browser has dropped below one percent within the United States. Tabulated from data collected by Net Applications, the official Internet Explorer 6 C0untdown site have dropped the usage rate to 0.9 percent in the United States. While the worldwide rate of usage dropped to approximately 7.7 percent, China… Read More

It turns out that Mozilla calling their renewed deal with Google a “significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement” was a bit of an understatement. According to a report from AllThingsD, it's worth $300 million a year. The deal was announced on Tuesday, and followed a degree of agonizing as to whether Google would retain their spot as the Firefox browser's search engine of choice. It has now transpired that… Read More

The 'will they or won't they' suspense has ended. Google has climbed back into bed with the Firefox web browser, renewing the agreement to stay as default search engine for Firefox. The financial terms were undisclosed, but the Mozilla blog announced Tuesday that this “significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement” has been extended for a at least another three years. Mozilla doesn't go into too much detail about… Read More

The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser has been facing a bit of a crisis, with the organization's search deal with Google in limbo — and with it, most of the public foundation's funding. While Mozilla and Google are reported to still be working on a new version of their search deal, new reports show Firefox is facing new challenges:Many Firefox users are failing to keep up with Mozilla's rapid release schedule for the… Read More

According to Ireland-based, research firm StatCounter, Google's Chrome 15 has overtaken Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 in global browser usage during the final week of November 2011. While IE8 is still the champ in the United States, Chrome's popularity globally is attributed to increased usage while at home on the weekends as well as growth within the workplace during the week. The last time that a browser version took over… Read More

Microsoft has announced that beginning early next year, it will begin silently upgrading Internet Explorer on systems running Windows Xp, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The move mirrors an upgrade strategy that's been used by Google Chrome since 2009, which routinely upgrades users to the latest version without explicitly asking for permission. Currently, even if Windows users have automatic upgrades enabled, Microsoft asks for permission… Read More

Released by Opera Software earlier today, version 11.60 of the Opera browser brings changes to the HTML5 rendering engine as well as speed improvements and a revision of the built-in email client. The last major release, version 11, was released during December 2010 and included new features such as visual mouse gestures, tab stacking and extension management. While this update doesn't bring as many new features, increased performance… Read More

Mozilla's Firefox browser occupies a unique place in the industry. Developed as an alternative to Microsoft's market-dominating Internet Explorer, Mozilla is the only major Web browser on the planet that isn't a commercial operation. Firefox aims to answer to actual Web users, rather than cow-tow to corporate goals and pursue every opportunity to capture users and (of course) make profits. And Mozilla has succeeded: the… Read More

 Chrome has officially surpassed Firefox as the number two browser and ignited speculation that Mozilla’s application isn’t long for this world. Not only has it lost its prestigious second billing to Google, but a highly profitable deal with the company has also ended. Google and Mozilla struck a deal back in 2008 that dictated Google would be the default search engine for the Firefox browser. In return, Google paid royally—somewhere between 84-… Read More

Based off a report from Ireland-based research firm StatCounter, the Google Chrome browser has moved into second place globally for the first time. While Microsoft's Internet Explorer still remains at the top, Mozilla's Firefox browser continued on a downward trend that started at the end of 2010. The research firm reported that Chrome took a 25.7 percent market share in November 2011 while Firefox fell to 25.23 percent. Just two… Read More

While the official launch of Firefox 8 is scheduled for November 8, Mozilla has made the release build of Firefox 8 available for download at day early on the Mozilla FTP server. For users that would prefer to wait until tomorrow, the final build of Firefox 8 will be available on the front end of the official Mozilla site. The browser also alerts users to any available update as well. The release of Firefox 8 comes approximately six weeks after… Read More

Released late yesterday, Google issued a new update to the popular Chrome browser. Google Chrome 15 rolls out a variety of bug fixes as well as a brand new tab interface. The changes to the tabs interface separates the most-visited list of Web sites and the apps on separate pages. These pages can be accessed by clicking the left and right arrows on either side of the page. However, if the user has an app that overwrites the initial interface… Read More

Microsoft has been pushing hard to encourage customers to adopt Internet Explorer 9 as their primary browser (or, at the very least, leave IE6 behind), but the effort seems to be meeting with a solid skepticism: Microsoft is seeing the global desktop browser share for Internet Explorer drop steadily, while Safari and (particularly) Chrome are seeing steady progress. According to Net Applications, Internet Explorer's share of the browser… Read More