Tag archive: Mozilla Firefox

 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

According to data provided by StatCounter, Google Chrome is currently in position to rise above Mozilla's Firefox and become the second most popular Web browser by December 2011. Google's aggressive advertising for the speedy browser has helped growth over 2011. Starting with 15 percent of the market share in January 2011, Google's current market share has risen to 23.6 percent as of September 2011. Google's rapid gain… Read More

According to new data posted this week from a company called Net Applications, Microsoft's Internet Explorer appears to be continuing a downward spiral. Over the last ten months, Microsoft has lost five percent of the web browser market while Google's Chrome has gained about six percent. The amount of people using Internet Explorer is expected to fall below the 50 percent mark around late May of 2012. One bright point for Microsoft… Read More

Do you want to keep your contacts up to date on your Google+ status even without them having to visit the website? Well now you can with WiseStamp’s new plug in for both Chrome and Firefox browsers allows you to add your Google+ status in your email signature. The signature will include your status, provide a link so the email recipient can add you to their circles, and of course a link to install the app. It seems as though it will become hard… Read More

Even though the most up to date users are currently on version 5 of Firefox, Mozilla announced plans for a feature in Firefox 8 that will automatically block any add-ons have have been bundled into third-party software. Users will have to specifically approve each add-on through an in-browser alert that appears within Firefox. This security feature is a response to the vast quantity of self-installed toolbars and other nagging software… Read More

With today's launch of Chrome 13, Google brings three new, major features to the popular Web browser as well as over 5,200 small improvements and bug fixes.  The major addition to the new version of Chrome ties directly into Google search and is called Instant Pages. The feature takes educated guesses on the links that it believes the user will click after searching for a keyword in Google. Over the period of time that it takes the user… Read More

Move over Firefox, Google Chrome is now the second most popular web browser in the U.K. According to web metrics firm Statcounter, Chrome became the favored browser on 22 percent of U.K. computers last month, edging out Mozilla's Firefox for the second-place spot in the browser hierarchy. As is the norm in most countries, Microsoft's Internet Explorer remained the top-rated U.K. browser with 45 percent of the market share — though… Read More

Mozilla released information today about a project designed to put an end to the password. BrowserID requires a user to verify that they are the owner of an email address a single time. Once the email account is verified, users can simply click the sign-in button at a site using BrowserID and log into the site with the email address. This eliminates the step of creating a password as well as clicking a confirmation email link from each site. At… Read More

Senator Jay Rockefeller has introduced a pro-consumer bill on Monday in order to protect online privacy. This Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2011 will require the FTC to regulate the collection and use of consumer's information garnered through tracking online activity—including online mobile activities. The Do-Not-Track Act gives an individual the ability to opt out of online tracking, and the Act also specifies that companies must make it… Read More

The browser war heated to a burning orange glow Tuesday with Mozilla’s release of Firefox 4. Just as Internet Explorer 9, Opera 11 and Chrome 10 before it, Firefox 4 has cut away the fat, and morphed into a lean, mean browsing machine armed with a ninja’s speed and agility. It still has the Firefox feel, but with a major, much-needed makeover in both the user interface and performance departments. The transformation is so complete that Mozilla… Read More

This is a good week for Mozilla. Firefox 4 was released less than 24 hours ago and it has already been embraced by 1.95 percent of the global browser market, web analytics firm StatCounter reveals. For comparison, Microsoft's competing Internet Explorer 9, which was released last week, had only taken a 0.87 percent share of the market as of yesterday. In related news, Mozilla also made the release candidate versions of Firefox 4′s… Read More

So Internet Explorer 9 is finally available for download, has already been downloaded 2.35 million times, and a strong Release Candidate for FireFox 4 is out. How do they stack up with Google's Chrome and against one another? All of the sudden, the browser wars have gotten a lot more interesting. For the first time in a while, the major browsers are almost on a level playing field when it comes to a number of important competitive… Read More

Microsoft dropped the latest update to its veteran web browser on Monday night with the release of Internet Explorer 9. While the application continues to be a market leader, its dominance has slipped a little in recent years due to the popularity of Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome alternatives. As expected however, users still flocked to download the software update and Microsoft is pretty pleased with the results. IE9 saw… Read More